[Anonymous]

Has anyone notice that most of the Gleim questions are sourced as “Publisher, adapted”? Is it safe to assume that this means that Gleim wrote the questions themselves? About one out of every ten questions is sourced as “CPA 0506 BEC-45” or something like that….meaning the questions came straight from an actual exam. And the difficultly level of the “CPA” sourced questions is unbelievably easier than the “Publisher” sourced questions. I am practicing every question that I can, but wanted to see if anyone else has noticed this.

[nickc1028]

I hate gleims TB so bad right now… testing me on garbage becker didnt seem to think is important!

CPA
AUD - 7/26/11 - pass
BEC - 8/31/11 - pass
FAR - 10/14/11 - pass
REG - 11/26/11 - pass
CMA
2/27/15 - pass
5/9/15 - pass

[Anonymous]

I actually liked that Gleim tells you which are actual CPA questions released by the AICPA, and which are publisher adapted. The harder publisher adapted ones give me better practice, and the CPA ones give me a good feel for the complexity, wording, and format of actual exam questions. I wish Wiley told me which ones were publisher adapted! Some of those questions are just way to overly complicated, I always told myself those ones HAD to be publisher adapted, because if they are really exam questions then I might be in serious trouble…

[Sparty On]

I've found that the Publisher questions test a lot of the very small details and obscure topics. I tend to not put as much stock in these questions as I do the CPA released ones. That being said, I have had a lot of success supplementing my Becker self study with the Gleim test bank. It is nice to have more questions to choose from and be able to work on multiple chapters at once. Gleim hits on some topics that Becker either neglects to cover or just skims over. I also like how it scrambles the answer choices so that when I do get repeat questions it is a little harder to just pick the answer that I remember.

AUD - 92
REG - 88
FAR - Awaiting score
BEC - 8/13

[jeff]

I think candidates can get frustrated getting stumped on questions that are beyond the scope of the CPA Exam.

For instance – if software throws Enrolled Agent questions into REG … I don't agree with that.

Jeff Elliott, CPA (KS) | Another71 | NINJA CPA | NINJA CMA | NINJA CPE

[Anonymous]

I hate Gleim's “Publisher, adapted” questions. They're ridiculous. I promise you that you will not get questions like that on the real exam. If you can, I would recommend you skip those questions and just do CPA sourced questions. I regret wasting my time with those questions when I practiced for my FAR and AUD exam.

[Anonymous]

@CPAMan, looks like practice all those extra publisher adapted questions might have helped you more than you think. 😉 Congrats passing FAR and AUD!

[seannyboy06]

I don't know; I did Gleim for the CIA, and while there definitely wasn't anything as hard as the questions they wrote themselves on the exam, those questions did help me learn the stuff. It made the test day that much easier, since I had the detail of the concept down, the questions were that much easier.

[smrichard]

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FAR 82
AUD 81 (2007), 73, 80
REG 68 (2010), 76
BEC 58 (2007), 75 DONE!!!!

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