ATC2009 wrote: I agree. I am about half way through the material for FAR and I am around 50%. I know this will not be good enough. I think I am going to go ahead and order Yaeger (FAR). Like you said, you need to understand the material and calculations. Hopefully the classroom setting will help me.

Good choice!  Additionally, Yaeger is the only review course where you can talk to the instructors if you have a problem.  I talk to Dr. Yaeger over the phone and he has been a big help to me! 

You will not get to talk over the phone to Dr. Gleim or to anyone who knows anything about FAR at Gleim.  The same is true for Becker and Roger.  The best that Gleim can do is to give a stock answer to a particular quesion by e-mail, IF you have Gleim online.  That is better than Becker who does not answer any questions on FAR. 

Professors are usually not educators.  Many professors do not know how to manage a classroom.  Ask high school teachers what they do for a living, and they will tell you that they are educators.  They have taken formal courses on how to teach.  Ask a professor what he does for a living, and he will say that he is a chemist, engineer, CPA etc.  He identifies with his profession, not education.  One professor told me that he only received one lesson in education.  His department head gave him a piece of chalk and told him to write big! 

One part of classroom management is not allowing students to ask redundant questions.  I usually tell students who ask frivolous questions that we have a lot of material to cover today; however, I would be happy to answer their questions after class.  As a salesman I went off on many tangents with customers and there were always many distractions during my sales presentations.  I loved the diversions, and I became friends with most of my customers.  However, I always knew where I left off in my sales presentations, and I could return to that point without skipping a beat.  It is one of the reasons that I became one of the top wholesale salespeople in the United States.   

bryris wrote: I'll never discount anyone's study methods - what works for you, works for you. That being said, one could argue that Gleim is more like the real world. In the real world, you won't always have someone standing over your shoulder to explain things when you get confused. Being able to look at a set of facts (in Gleim, you get stock answer solutions that are very good, IMHO) and play detective to figure it out does strengthen the ability to be self sustaining. Employers are looking for this skill as well and if you ever run your own business in accounting, you'll be by yourself with a pile of problems and will have to navigate your way through them without calling Dr. Whoever. Often, I'll get backed into a corner on a topic, but after answering enough questions, cross referencing one explanation off another, drawing pictures and diagrams of the concepts, etc it'll usually click. For custom explanations, this board works very well - though not all questions are answered.