[zee]

I am taking FAR OCT 13th and using Wiley to study.
I have been reading all these blogs and FAR sims seems to be hard for everyone.
I was wondering if anyone else took FAR after the April exam change using Wiley to study and how prepared you felt?
Any advice/tips for FAR will be greatly appreciated.

[seminology]

i don't think Wiley or any current study provider has what it takes to treat the simulation part of FAR. only what i know of is that you may be good at the mcq part. the simulation is crazy!

[Anonymous]

Personally I love Wiley – I've used it pre and post exam changes. I used Wiley for FAR in May 2017 and felt more than prepared. I think all the review course will prepare you however, I felt Wiley suited my personal needs. I worked full time so being able to go in and do bite-sized lectures and even better choosing the amount of MCQ's that I do at a time is perfect. You can choose to do as little as 10 questions with the option to choose from questions never seen, questions seen or only questions you got wrong. Also I think you can have it just pick a few regardless of seen/not seen wrong or right.

Wiley was a gift. I must add that I bought the Ninja notes which helps bring it together. For me I never read the book or watched the lectures I dove into the MCQs as I had baseline FAR Knowledge. I literally did all the questions 2x and then created a customize set of MCQs as my review phase.

Wiley is broken out by topic so it makes it easier to understand – in my opinion. I've used Becker but that's for people who have the time to sit there and do all the MCQs. Studied back in March of 2017 and then did a picked up for 2 weeks in May right before exam to refresh (Don't recommend this, I was sick and had allergic reaction so my eyes were swollen shut and the works). Go through the MCQs 2x (they break them out between ones they license from the AICPA and the Wiley written ones. I think in total they have over 2600 FAR MCQ's (AICAP – 1200 and the rest from Wiley). I chose to focus on AICPA in the last two weeks due to time constraints.

I also took the AICPA mock exam – never took the Wiley exam due to time constraints.

[Anonymous]

Yea – nothing will prepare you for sims – just understand the format. MCQs will reinforce the material necessary to do the sim

[CPAIN2K17]

I used Wiley for FAR in Q2 and it prepared me very well. While their sims aren't necessarily the same format as the sims on the exam, they definitely cover the material you need to know to do well on the sims, so I wouldn't worry too much about that.

Wiley CPAExcel + Ninja MCQ & Notes

 

AUD - 97 (1/24/17)

BEC - 84 (3/10/17)

FAR - 94 (5/31/17)

REG - 88 (8/16/17)

[AICPAy2Play]

I thought WILEY was great for FAR (not so much for AUD). Everyone is complaining about the difficulty of SIMS but I actually thought they were kinda easy. Maybe I just did terrible on MCQ so they gave me some easy SIMs to make me feel better about myself. Dont skip the last two topics in WILEY. If you are running out of time, make sure you spend a day or two on each before the exam. I walked in to FAR extremely worried and felt underprepared. I walked out feeling like it was much easier than the review course and actually think I passed. I think I had 45min left on my clock. Completely re-checked every SIM from last testlet. September 19th cant come soon enough.

BEC - 81

REG - 80

AUD - 74, 94

FAR - 95

[lilac]

I used Wiley for FAR (and AUD). I started with Becker. Wiley was perfect for my learning style, once I figured out that the material progressed by AICPA topic and not by difficulty. I didn't go to school for accounting so I had to learn a lot of this stuff from scratch. Therefore starting cash flows after a few lessons in made absolutely no sense to me. Sometimes I needed to supplement with youtube videos and accountingcoach.com. But I listened to every single lecture. And I feel like the Wiley approach really paid off during the review – because I could go back over material by very specific topics. Maybe because of my legal background, I approached the sims like a law exam. I reviewed the source documents first, identified issues, and then I went to the actual questions. This worked for me.

AUD - 81
BEC - 76
FAR - 75
REG - 88

Nothing worth having comes easy.

[jeff]

Can you share how you used the WILEY CPAEXCEL and Ninja MCQ & NOTES?
Did you watch the Wiley CPAExcel video and text?

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