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It is not my style to trash a product in a forum. However, I may be able to save some of you a bit of time with this product review.My Becker subscription had expired. I needed a review package with good SIMS for FAR. I called CPAEXCEL several times and after great amount of deliberation and comparison, I bought their FAR course.
The material is well presented, however the SIMS have a lot of bugs. In the last three weeks, I completed 24% of the course and I became increasingly frustrated with the SIM cells. My objective was to get enough practice to shave of the precious seconds on the SIMS. Instead, I found that I was always getting timed out.
When I called customer service, I was told that they were aware of all the problems with the SIMS and they were planning to come out with an update in November. Had I been told about this earlier, I would never have bought it. I have decided to return the review materials.I cannot wait till November and lose the next exam cycle.
If any of you have any other suggestions besides Becker and Wiley Test Bank, I am all ears.
AUD: Passed
REG: Passed
BEC: Passed
FAR: Passed
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I too am currently using the GLEIM online access to FAR sims. I like them and the whole FAR package on Gleim was affordable (IMO)
Yes, drawback is that you can only complete them 3x. I personally don't see the need to do each more than that though so it's not a big deal for me. Plus, FAR on Gleim is 20 “chapters” (more like sections) so that's 20 sets of SIMs to practice on a total of 60x. And 20 research questions…. always like to practice my research.
My one “con” or worry would be it seems that some of the SIMs seem much easier in Gleim than on the real exam. I found my exam sims for FAR to be challenging (no surprise) and some of the of the pieces of each Gleim SIM seem so easy… T/F questions? multiple choice? Hence I have been focusing on the hardest 1 or 2 tabs in each of the 20 sections' simulations, with the thought that if I'm going to get a related SIM on exam day, it's probably going to be “hard” like those.
Link: Current CPAexcel Discount Codes
REG - 65, 70, 80!
BEC - 35, 62, 79!
AUD - 73, 75!
FAR - 65, 73, 70, 75! DONE.I too am currently using the GLEIM online access to FAR sims. I like them and the whole FAR package on Gleim was affordable (IMO)
Yes, drawback is that you can only complete them 3x. I personally don't see the need to do each more than that though so it's not a big deal for me. Plus, FAR on Gleim is 20 “chapters” (more like sections) so that's 20 sets of SIMs to practice on a total of 60x. And 20 research questions…. always like to practice my research.
My one “con” or worry would be it seems that some of the SIMs seem much easier in Gleim than on the real exam. I found my exam sims for FAR to be challenging (no surprise) and some of the of the pieces of each Gleim SIM seem so easy… T/F questions? multiple choice? Hence I have been focusing on the hardest 1 or 2 tabs in each of the 20 sections' simulations, with the thought that if I'm going to get a related SIM on exam day, it's probably going to be “hard” like those.
REG - 65, 70, 80!
BEC - 35, 62, 79!
AUD - 73, 75!
FAR - 65, 73, 70, 75! DONE.
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