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Wiley CPA Examination Review Practice Software 12.0 - Complete Set

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I just want to lend another opinion in other areas of problem that the other reviewers didn't mention. Here's my summerized list of pros and cons:

Pros:

- Plenty and plenty of multiple choices that has been extremely helpful for my exam preparation.

Cons:

- Simulations have plenty of errors. There are questions that I could tell the answers aren't lined up correctly (Bond simulation is an example). There are prenty of wrong answers.

- Gazillin typos. Some can be very misleading and mess you up in the real eam.

- Simulation format isn't similar to the real exam.

- I found it very annoying that I can't finish the sims THEN compare the result with the answers. The answers keep popping up as you go on....and to make it worse, if you don't need to answer something, there is no way if that's the right answer. For example, you are given a set of check buttons that you can pick more than one answers. If you pick one either right or wrong, you get the response (which is good). But if you know that a choice is not part of the right answer, there's no way you can be sure unless you intentionally pick it anyway.

- Plenty of bugs. Quite a hassle for me to get it up and running on my Vista machine.

All-in-all, a good tool for studying multiple choices, not so much for simulations....

Good luck with your exam!!

I agree with the bulk of these reviews so far. I've really enjoyed the MC selection--although the interface isn't as clean and friendly as it could be. The ability to focus on specific content questions really helped me polish up for FAR.

For those of you preparing for the exam with just books and videos, rather than a full online course paid for by your firm, this software is an awesome way to get access to loads of MC questions. Also, I really like that most of the answer keys for the questions not only explain to you why an answer is correct, but also why answers are wrong.

You can learn a lot more from the explanations from this software than from answer solutions from the back of a book--at least from my experience with Bisk CPA Ready.

The simulations are really lacking. Typos and bugs have been mentioned already so I won't dwell on them; however, they are nice to scroll through and get an idea of what kind of questions you can run into on the exam. Other than that, I'd suggest sticking to the MC.

This is a good review software, plenty of great question, many of which appear verbatim on the exam. The review below "wow...for a major publisher, this is horrible" is written by a moron. If you want the answers to stop popping up, set it on test mode, not review mode. Though, he is right about the spelling errors, they definitely forgot to turn on their spell check.

Without limit on user and expiry date. That's the best part of it.

I have a recent but earlier version. The software was buggy, though still usable. I would pay for an upgrade if available, but I'm not motivated to spend full price for something that may or may not work.

Wiley, fix the software and provide an upgrade path. Offer a demo version with just a few questions so that customers can see how well it works on their systems.

The practice review problems are comprehensive and the level of difficulty is generally accurate to the CPA exam. For sheer volume of practice, it's worthwhile. However, the practice exam is just a sample of the practice questions, so aside from timing and generic "exam practice", it's not very helpful. The feedback is inconsistent, such that for some questions, the feedback is very detailed and fully explains the answer, whereas for other questions, the feedback provides minimal information or doesn't fully explain a concept or calculation. I would probably still buy it, although I'm not thoroughly impressed.

It enabled me to practice both multiple and simulation questions (very similar to real exam); it's just great!

Wiley Version .12 is an excellent tool to prepare for the exam as it has more mcqs than version.11.They could have added more simulations.One more good thing is that they have seperated the topics in mcqs that would be tested from July 2007 for Auditing section.It gives you a real feel of apprearing for the exams.It would have been more helpful if database for the reaserch mode of the simulations mode were included. It is a very essential tool for students who want to succeed in the exams.