1. do you just keep doing MCQ, or is there a method behind the madness of having all those different options?
–I worked one section at a time and did “New Questions” until I had seen every question
2. what is significance of the bar with “assessment”, “adaptive learning”, and “review”?
–After you've done 35% of the total questions it moves you from assessment to adaptive learning. If you're choosing New Questions every time then this doesn't mean much because the point of the adaptive learning phase is for the software to judge your weak areas and throw more questions at you from those areas. That's not relevant if you're only looking at new quesitons. Once you've gone through them all once, you can start choosing “Got wrong last time” and work those questions until you get them all right once, which would move you into the review phase. The review phase is like another adaptive learning phase that picks your weak topics to test you on. You could wind up doing questions 6 and 7 times for that to be really relevant and at that point you may be memorizing the quesitons if you do it the way I did, topic by topic. It's really about how you learn best as to which way you go about tackling all those MCQ. The SIMS don't count towards any of this, but you should go through all the SIMS too. Jeff posted a thread with the breakdown of all the SIMS for each test and which numbers go with which topics. I put that into Excel and worked the SIMS section by section a few days before the test. I would suggest going through them more thoroughly than I did. They are MUCH better than WTB SIMS.
3. the progress report only shows 6 categories. Is there a way to see the subsections in regards to what is your Percentage on a particular topic?
–At the top left there is an option to choose “Detailed Report”. If you click that you get everything subtopic by subtopic. Great feature!
4. is there a way to pause a session and come back to it later?
–No, but if you leave a session in the middle of it, it will grade you on what you got through and put the other questions back into the test bank like you didn't have them in a quiz already.
CPA Exam - Finally DONE (November 2014)
BEC (08/10/13) 80
AUD (08/24/13) 65 (11/13/13) 85
FAR (04/12/14) 81
REG (07/19/14) 69 (11/29/14) 87!!
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