vicky wrote: A lot of the questions are phrased differently but end up with the same answer. E.g. they pose scenarios of whether/when it is unethical to receive a gift. The details of the scenario change, but the answer is always the same. Another typical one is a regarding what is not an internal auditor's responsibility. Pick the answer where it says something about implementing corrective action, implementing internal controls or implementing whatever. There is often the answer that is always wrong and contains "all", e.g. "assurance of ALL internal control", "ALL processes", etc. Just look for patterns and the little trick words.

Hi vicky,

Thanks for your advise.  I passed the part 1 of CIA exam yesterday.