[Anonymous]

Wiley Question –

For the lessons in CPAexcel, some have 4, 5, 10 questions per lesson, and then there are some that has 36 questions per lesson. For lessons that have this many, is it okay to just do 10 questions, or should you do all 36?

[topharry123]

I did them all and i'm glad I did because although some are similar, they can be worded differently which can enhance your understanding. Even if you can't sit through them all at once, I would strongly recommend coming back to them later on and having a crack at all of them. I've taken three parts of the CPA exam so far, and the questions on CPA excel are the closest i've seen to the real thing in terms of the way the questions are laid out, and the answers that are both right and wrong.

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[RandomAlt]

@topharry123 – Thanks for the info…I use CPAexcel also and its good to know that. I also agree with you about the wording. I was doing the FV section near the beginning and they had 2 questions back to back, one using the most advantageous market, and the other using the principle market. The two questions really drove home the point.

@Determined_To_Succeed – After I said all those great things about the CPAexcel questions in the beginning, I did modify my method (after discovering Jeff's website), and I must say I do like my modified method more now. I study each section, but I am skipping all of the MCQ and sims until after I finish studying each section.

I do this for a couple of reasons:

1)I felt I was going too slowly. You use CPAexcel, so you should know…239 sections…when I was going the MCQs along with each section (especially the ones that had over 30 questions in them), I felt like it was taking forever.

2)I also felt that some questions, while they did contain the main point of the topic, used info that i had no learned yet. So I would be double frustrated because I got the question wrong, but also didn't understand why I got it wrong (because the other topic hadn't been covered yet).

So because of this, this is the way I study now:

-I create my own concentrated (no more than 5) flashcards for each section. I review these as I'm going through the new topics. This way I keep the old info fresh, as I'm learnign the new stuff

-When I finish all 239 topics, I will go back and just concentrate on the MCQs and SIMS. That way I “shouldn't” miss questions because of topics that haven't been covered yet.

<And I hope this post wasn't too long and too far off topic>

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