Hi i am preparing now part 3 and i am using Gliem material i think that you need to study 1 hours /day for 5 months in order to be able to read all the materials and try solving question from gliem cd , someone had advised me om this and she passed the exam by this way , we need to work hard to pass first time marwa pass part 1 march 2010 pass part 2 aug 2010 pass part 4 september 2011
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Just passed part III last week. I procrasinated and only gave myself about 2 weeks of prep time. I used Gleim 14th edition (book only) and the IIA's 2004/2010 Model Exam Book.
As far as the Gleim material I read Chapters 1, 2, 3 and 8, 9 and 10. (ran out of time for chapters 4 through 7). However I did complete all 30 questions for each chapter. I never had a chance to go back and review.
The day before I took the 2010 Model Exam, then the day of reviewed those questions again.
Probably not the best approach but it got me by. I was really stressing about this part as I heard it was roughly 30% calculations. This was far from the truth. I would say that at the most maybe 8 questions I had to pull the calculator out of the 90 in total. IT was very heavily covered. I expected maybe 30% of the exam to be IT as the syllable suggests but in all honestly it seemed like it was more in the 40-45% range. I have to perform IT general controls testing for SOX requirements at work so I have a decent IT audit background.
During the exam, I always mark the # of questions that I have seen before. I ended up with 5 questions verbatim from the 2010 Model exam book and 3 from the Gleim material.
Recently I passed CIA 3 Exam in 1st go so i would like to share some of my thoughts with you people which you might find Helpful....
1.I used Gleim 15th edition books,software and Audio(lambers videos as a supplement)and in my opinion gleim cover every aspect of syllabus so u can trust it blindly..
2.Every third question on paper was from IT portion(35+ questions)so do focus on IT topics.
3.Do practice software at least three times before exam and you must see question you marked while revising for final paper.(10-15) questions will appear directly from book or software)
4.Don't over focus on numerical portions as there were about 10 computational questions out of 90 and were straight forward...
Friday December 30, 2011 7:14 AM
