[jasoncancio]

Not particularly UWorld Roger CPA Review, but pertaining to other review courses as well.

They toss out phrases like:

“THIS HAS BEEN TESTED BEFORE”

“THIS IS A HIGHLY TESTED TOPIC”

“WE’VE SEEN THIS ON THE TEST BEFORE”

Maybe it’s just my ignorance, but based on my knowledge, you aren’t supposed to speak about the contents of the exam.

Where are lecturers acquiring this information? How do they know these particular things have ‘been tested before’?

[Biff-1955-Tannen]

I don't think telling that this topic has been tested before, is an issue. If they were giving specific questions and answers, that would be an issue.

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[ohiostategirlcpa]

Released questions by the AICPA, I'd guess. And the subject content of the CPA exam is published by the AICPA, as well. It's ironic that this is “forbidden” by the AICPA when the review courses contain 90% of the exam you will be taking. Not that this fact helps with passing rate.

But the point is that you cannot disclose specific answers to questions, not widely known subject content. If the AICPA themselves publish the content of the exam, what is left to disclose but specific questions and answers.

Gleim is also full of these focus pointers.

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[MaLoTu]

It has to be based on the questions that were released to them.

[rosecpa]

Don't worry, they can be very wrong sometimes. On my FAR exam, I had a few sims that Becker assured me I wouldn't see.

[jm962011]

One of my accounting professors in college, a licensed CPA, used to take the CPA exam regularly to stay updated on the material they were testing so he could throw out during a lecture “pay attention, if you take the CPA exam, you will be tested on this.” Because honestly, we remember everything from college, right? But really, sometimes learning it in college allowed you to recall it during your independent studies.

[Missy]

You as a candidate are not allowed to say what you saw on the exam. The review companies play by a different set of rules and in fact are provided the previously used questions to build into their courses. Actually once something is out in the public domain (you can google AICPA released questions) you have free reign to discuss those. But not what you saw 2 weeks ago……….

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