[jstoffel]

Wiley Question –

I’m currently in the State and Local Government section, and it is just excruciating. Like I know its weird, and difficult, and I didn’t study it in undergrad. But its hardly the difficulty of the content that I’m annoyed with, but rather the length and depth of the lessons. Each video is at least 15 minutes, and then half the book chapters are like 15 pages each, covering mounds of detail never even mentioned in the videos.

The professor keeps stressing that the questions on the exam are basic and asked at a surface level, but the study text dives into some really, really deep stuff, (e.g. random rules for intangible assets presented on The CAFR, and at least 10 pages on seemingly every detail about governmental pensions). Needless to say, the lessons cover far more than what I would consider “surface level” and “basics.”

And then, it seems like literally every topic he covers is also a “hot topic,” which we can “absolutely guarantee to see on the exam.” Like, I know GNP is a bigger part of the exam that people often overlook, but if every “hot topic” he covered were on the exam, it would be 1000 questions long.
I don’t know, maybe I’m just anxious to finish the material, but Im afraid that I am getting caught up in piles of unneeded detail when I should be looking at a bigger picture.

Any thoughts about this?

[mjl194]

You should just buckle down and learn it. I don't think this is giving away too much (but if it is, please delete) but let's just say that you can have a simulation pertaining to governmental. Luckily, I have a few governmental audits so it wasn't horrible for me but I chose not to learn everything with governmental.

But if you are running out of time, a Wiley rep told me that the most important topics in a lesson are always presented on top. As in, the further down you get in a really long lesson, the less likely you are to see it on the exam.

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