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I have used Gleim and failed FAR and used Wiley and I presumably passed AUD based on my feeling after the test. I thought I would try to give you a review on what I liked about Wiley.
Wiley actually gives you the simulation questions along with the multiple choice questions with their base package. Gleim’s base software package only includes the MCQ questions. This is very confusing for someone trying to sort through all of the different software providers. Gleim includes their book for free with their software package so I thought I was getting a good deal by going with Gleim because I didn’t understand how important it is to prepare for simulations. I figured that any software provider would give me what I need to pass the exam. This leaves me wondering if Gleim just wants to try to upsale people to get their simulation wizard software when they find the software they purchased only prepares them for MCQ. If you look at Gleim’s website, they have all of these confusing bundles–they would do better to just to offer their Gleim online and their book–just keep it simple like Wiley.
Here are some features I liked with Wiley Test Bank:
* They have cool bar graphs that are very helpful to understanding sections where you are weak. They are very easy to use and you can easily include and exclude practice sessions you have taken from your overall score so you can exclude early sessions where you scored low and include later sections after you have become more proficient. A recent average is more helpful than a cumulative average that include all of your oldest scores.
* They have an option where you can test yourself on questions that you have missed more than a certain number of times. This makes you more productive during your final preparation because you can focus on MCQs where you are weak without having to suffer through questions where you already know the answer.
* They have a great button on the MCQs that gives you a text passage regarding the question so you don’t have to flip through the book. This was very helpful to me when I wanted to discretely do some test preparation at work.
*The simulations and MCQ questions were very representative of the actual exam.
These features helped me to prepare for the exam more efficiently.
As for Gleim, I think they have a decent product but I think their MCQ questions are maybe too difficult relative to the actual exam so you end up not preparing efficiently and I didn’t experience some of the benefits listed above.
One thing I didn’t like about Wiley is they couldn’t seem to get their test bank simulations updated for AUD clarity standards and they were very unclear about that process and posted a crappy .pdf of sims even though the questions were exactly the same as in the software! Furthermore, their authoritative literature wasn’t updated even through their research sims were up to date. I think it is weird that a company that makes CPA updates to their software often seems to have no clue how to get this updated and is even worse at communicating the facts I had to discover through trial and error.
Perhaps both companies could get a lesson on customer relations and clear communications.
Overall, though, I would give Wiley a thumbs up on a great program that gives you ALL the software you need to prepare for the exam in one simple package without all of the confusion options that Gleim has. My biggest advice…just by your book separately and don’t make that a deciding factor on which software to use!
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