3 of my 7 tabs on my AUD exam were research tasks. Has anyone else had this? The other tabs were made up of one hard one, two medium difficulty and one easy.

3 of my 7 tabs on my AUD exam were research tasks. Has anyone else had this? The other tabs were made up of one hard one, two medium difficulty and one easy.
I had 2 research tabs on my last Audit exam......never heard of 3!!!!
I took my exam this afternoon. I dont think I am going crazy, I am pretty certain there was 3 of them. weird.
wow... i wish i have 3 research questions cause i usually kill those :D like jomarie said, 2 research questions are out there, but never know that it could be 3 :) praying for 3 research questions now, haha!!
I took it yesterday the 21st and only had one research. I felt like the simulations were pretty rough. :(
I had 2 research today. I had 2 research, 1 fairly easy sim, and the other 4 were moderate to hard.
are research easy? how can I pass them?
If you identify the keyword in the research you can find it with no problems. but research can also hurt you if you spend a lot of time on them. I make my research the last thing I do..
I just took AUD today and had 1 research tab and it was terrible..it took me like 10 minutes to figure out what they are asking and still not sure if i got it..
what do you do in these research sims from AUD? do they just ask for the ASC code xxx-xxx-xxx-xx or whatever?
If we all got different number of research tabs, does it mean that sims are adaptive too..how did you feel about difficulty of testlets? I thought mine was medium -> difficult-> medium..
Yeah, just find the code # and paragraph from available sets of rules: (AU, PCAOB,AT,ET,BL,VS, CS)
If you got 3 research it probably means that one of the research are going to be thrown out.....but congrats to you for even gettin three!!! That seems like an ideal situation right there!!!! They say SIMS aren't adaptive that its the luck of the draw an some people draw the short end of the stick!!!
after taking so many times...i believe they r adaptive
Mimino, I'm not really sure how to gauge how the difficulty went. I really studied my butt off for the multiple choice and I was in public and have audit experience, so audit is probably the one I "thought" I would feel most comfortable with. But, I felt like three of the sims I couldn't have prepared at all for based off of studying and what I knew audit wise. I would say I definitely thought my last testlet was more difficult though. Personally, I would've rather had at least one more research question at least. Hopefully it works out! Goodluck to all of you guys/gals too =)
Do they only throw one sim out? Or how many do they throw out?
I had 2 and one was very broad.
I don't think they are adaptive, because the first time I took the exam, two of the sims were much more brutal than those I had the second time.
How could the sims possibly be adaptive? I thought you're allowed to bounce back and forth between SIMS? If so, then unless you submit the entire test, the system can't grade you on the SIMS and will have no benchmark of testing the accuracy before they "adapt" to a harder/easier SIM.
I only got one research tab on the test I took the 21st. They were brutal I scored stronger than passing canidates on the other six factors and weaker on the simulations and failed with a 71. I wondering if the level of difficulty of sims is based on how you did on the multiple choice?
Ah...that would make sense @75letsgo
I guess they meant adaptive to your previous 3 testlets. I believe the sims are the same for all of us.
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