Wiley vs. Roger

When comparing Wiley CPA vs. Roger, we’ll look at cost, technology, practice materials, formats, and more.

In recent news, Wiley was the winner of the 2021 SIIA CODiE Award for Best College and Career Readiness Solution. This award recognizes companies producing the most innovative education technology products across the globe. If technology is important to you, Wiley may have an edge as a globally recognized leader in CPA test prep technology.

Plus, the highlighted features in the course comparison grid below are included in all Wiley CPA courses; Roger includes some features only in its highest-cost package.

In our comparison of Wiley vs. Roger CPA, we’ve concluded that Wiley is the best CPA review provider. Some of the most compelling reasons to go with Wiley include course features that Roger CPA review doesn’t offer, or higher quality, more helpful features.

Some of the key features Wiley offers include:

• Full Team of University Professors with CPA Designation
• Ask an Instructor Feature in Which Instructors Answer Your Pressing CPA Review Questions
• Pass Guarantee on All Packages, No Exceptions
• More CPA Exam Practice Questions Than Any Other Provider
• Deep Dive Videos to Supplement Tough CPA Topics
• Bite-sized Lessons to Master Lessons in as Little as 30-45 Minutes

View the CPA Exam Review Comparison Grid below and you’ll see that Wiley CPA has better features, more support, and more practice questions and task-based simulations than Roger.

Wiley has three test prep package tiers you can choose from while Roger just has two. Roger’s Elite-Ultimate package is comparable in services to Wiley’s Platinum package, but Roger’s course clocks in at a whopping $500 more. Roger’s Premier package is the bare-bones basics of test prep and doesn’t include access to the course until you pass (which is included in all Wiley packages). And Wiley offers an Ultimate Mentorship bundle for candidates looking for additional support via personal mentor sessions and 1-on-1 tutoring.

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More services and features are built into Wiley’s courses than into Roger’s. And unlike Roger, Wiley gives you course repeats and free updates until you pass the exam. So, regardless of which package you go with, Wiley comes out on top in terms of value, cost, quality, features, and material.

Daniel Herman, CPA researched pricing and materials for other CPA exam test prep providers and found that Wiley was the best value.

Both Wiley and Roger include free software and content updates, but only Wiley features unlimited access on all its packages until you pass the exam.

In addition, Wiley’s innovative education technology won the 2021 SIIA CODiE Award for Best College and Career Readiness Solution. This award recognizes Wiley’s innovative FocusMe technology, which provides personalized features including a highly customizable study planner, adaptive review, and content recommendations. Wiley’s FocusMe technology makes your study time as efficient as possible by helping you focus on your weak areas.

Here’s what using Wiley’s adaptive review technology looks like.

• Adjusts Question Difficulty
  • When you answer questions correctly, the difficulty of the next question increases, so you can avoid easier questions that eat up your time. On the flip side, if you’re struggling, questions get a bit easier.

• Adaptive Review Sessions
  • Unlike assessments, Adaptive Review sessions don’t have a set number of questions. The number of questions you get varies based on how you’re doing, so if you’re doing well, you won’t have to complete extra questions just to finish the session. Each session includes about two dozen questions but can vary from 18 to 30, based on your performance

• Personalized Study Recommendations
  • After each session, you’ll see Study Recommendations based on the questions you answered correctly or incorrectly. Wiley highlights your strengths and weaknesses and links you directly to lessons that you need to focus on.

With Wiley’s Adaptive Review technology that helps maximize your study time so you feel confident on exam day, Wiley is the winner for technology and software.

Each of Wiley CPA’s review courses comes with unlimited access and updates until you pass. While Roger’s Elite-Ultimate Package comes with unlimited access and updates, Roger’s Premium package only provides access to software and updates for 18 months (excluding certain features).

Because Wiley offers unlimited course repeats until you pass on all packages with no exceptions, and Roger CPA review only offers this benefit on its Elite-Ultimate package, the winner here is Wiley.

All of Wiley’s courses come with more than 12,000 multiple-choice practice questions, which is more than any other provider, including Roger, Surgent, and Becker CPA Review. Wiley is known for its practice materials not only because of the quantity of materials but also the quality. Wiley’s CPA experts have clearly put a lot of time into crafting practice questions that resemble the real CPA exam.

Wiley’s 12,000+ CPA multiple-choice questions (MCQs), including AICPA release questions from previous CPA Exams, provide detailed explanations for right and wrong answers. All Wiley packages also include more than 500 task-based simulations and written communications questions. Because of this, Wiley has the most popular CPA Test Bank on the market, and it is continuously updated.

JC Johnson, CPA felt like the quality of Wiley’s practice questions really made a difference.

Roger provides 6,000 practice questions and hundreds of task-based simulations, so Wiley definitely has the edge on Roger for CPA practice questions.

Wiley’s Flashcards help reinforce important topics and ensure you understand key testable information. Plus, they’re convenient for studying on the go, especially since Wiley offers digital flashcards on the Wiley CPA companion mobile app. All Wiley packages include more than 4,000 digital flashcards and 1,000 printed and curated flashcards.

Roger only provides you flashcards with its Elite-Ultimate package, not with its Premier package. So, if flashcards are important to you, opt for Wiley.

Wiley CPA review courses are in an online format in which you can study on your own time. All courses also include live virtual classes that are available on-demand. Need to study offline? No problem. Wiley lets you.

Roger is also offered in an online, self-study format. Some of Roger’s key features, like flashcards and unlimited access until you pass, are only offered on their most expensive package, while Wiley includes some of the most coveted features in every course tier.

Some Wiley features include:

• Access to the Wiley CPA Study Group on Facebook
• CPA Review Questions Answered by CPA Instructors
• Free Course Repeats and Updates Until You Pass
• More than 12,000 CPA Exam Practice Questions
• Deep Dive Videos
• Bite-sized Lessons

If you want more personalized attention, Wiley also offers:

• 1-on-1 Tutoring
• Expert Mentors
• CPA 11^th Hour Final Review Course

Bite-Sized Video Lessons

Wiley is known for its short, highly digestible bite-sized lessons. So, if you’re looking to maximize your study time, Wiley is the winner here. The quick, bite-sized lessons are built to be completed in 30 to 45 minutes, which means you can give your full attention while covering quick in-depth topics.

Ask An Instructor

One incredibly helpful and unique feature Wiley offers on all its course packages is Ask an Instructor. The Ask an Instructor feature lets you ask CPA-review questions that a CPA instructor responds to within 24 to 48 hours.

Task-based Simulations

Task-based simulations are incredibly important for getting you ready for exam day because they use case studies to help you test your understanding. Wiley provides more than 500 task-based simulations while Roger only offers a few hundred. The task-based simulations are all in the Prometric interface you will be seeing on exam day, so with the high number of questions in the actual interface you will see, Wiley beats Roger.

Full-length Practice Exam

Wiley CPA practice exams replicate the real CPA exam, so when it comes to test day, you’ve already seen the format and tested yourself on similar questions in a timed environment. Every package includes two weighted practice exams, as well as unlimited generated practice exams, and you receive your results in real time.

Wiley has live virtual and on-demand video lectures that are taught by leading educators with contributions from experts and peers. They also offer deep-dive lecture videos for difficult CPA topics—a feature that Roger does not have.

While Roger is known for entertaining and highly animated video lectures, JC Johnson, CPA says he was more motivated by Wiley video lectures.

After comparing the features and strengths and weaknesses of Wiley vs. Roger, Wiley is the clear overall winner and the best course.

To review, here is where we landed on some of the most important considerations:

• Cost
  • Wiley has more course options, and the Platinum course is $500 less than Roger’s comparable Elite-Ultimate package.

• Technology
  • Wiley won the 2021 SIIA CODiE Award for Best College and Career Readiness Solution for innovative education technology.

• Access and Expiration
  • Wiley gives you unlimited access until you pass on all packages with no exceptions, while Roger only offers unlimited access on some packages.

• Exam Practice Questions
  • Wiley is the industry-leader in CPA practice materials. You get more than 12,000 multiple-choice practice questions (more than any other provider) and 500 task-based simulations compared to Roger’s 6,000 and a few hundred respectively.

• Flashcards
  • With Wiley, you get flashcards in all courses, no exceptions. Roger only includes flashcards on its top package.

• Video Lectures
  • Wiley has more types of videos to supplement your learning style (bite-sized lessons, deep dive videos, live and on-demand virtual classrooms) so you can study efficiently.