Gobeil's Examination Preparation Course
Course Evaluations

Participants on previous presentations provided the following comments on the course evaluations.

• Gave me back my confidence after failing the exam.
   
• Cannot beat having the practice --- great way to learn.
   
• Gave me a sense of hope of possibly passing.
   
• The upcoming exam doesn’t seem quite so scary, but I also realise how much work is still needed.
   
• Answering some questions from case study that does not require reference to the case study specifically.
   
• Delightful and informed facilitator.
   
• Showed how I could better study.
   
• Helped narrowed what is important to study.
   
• He showed us how to save time when reading the case study, and showed us by a process of elimination how to come to the right answer.
   
• Course was very organized and moved at a steady pace.
   
• The tests are timed to make the exam simulation more realistic.
   
• Finding out that I do not know nearly enough.
   
• I enjoyed your teaching, your knowledge, and your sense of humour.
   
• Seeing our progress --- encouraging.
   
• Instructors---- you guys know you stuff!
   
• Discussion sharing concerns with colleagues.
   
• Hearing from people who had written the exam previously.
   
• Size of group allows for interaction.
   
• Excellent detailed explanations & time given to answer questions raised by group.
   
• Dynamic motivating instructors.
   
• Doing a lot of practice exams, rather than sitting down and listening.
   
• Some great techniques on how to approach the reading, analysing, and answering questions. It‘s really not rocket science.
   
• Day was well structured.
   
• Case after case is excellent.
   
• Clarification of income tax act (e.g., income attribution rules, partnership interests, and section 85 rollover).
   
• I liked doing exams & discussing the answers right after.
   
• Cleaned up my problems on the calculation process.
   
• Doing case studies all day is much more effective than lectures.
   
• Everything well explained. Very patient.
   
• Good explanations using layman’s terms.
   
• Liked how exams became gradually harder.
   
• Excellent tricks of the trade.
   
• Facilitator is very knowledgeable.
   
• Very comprehensive, using wide variety of issues.
   
• Understanding how to read question.
   
• Case study questions very demanding.
   
• Able to answer questions that were very troublesome.
   
• Finding out what is expected on the exam.
   
• Getting me to focus on what is important.
   
• Be prepared physically.
   
• Input about skimming given information vs. reading it in detail.
   
• Advise on what to study/what not to study.
   
• Ideas on how to last the day of the exam.
   
• Suggestions as to critical areas to be studied for exam.
   
• Knowing how I am doing compared to the other students.
   
• Hearing past experiences of those who wrote the exam previously.
   
• It helps to take the fear of the exam to a lower level.
   
• Excellent examples to explain the concept.
   
• Excellent communicator of information.
   
• Specifics as to the type of material that is to be expected on exam.
   
• Information on taxes.
   
• Exam writing concepts really helped on the practice tests.
   
• Psychological preparation for exam.
   
• The Must Knows is good summary.
   
• Good explanations to all of the sample exam questions.
   
• Take a guess as to answer rather than leave it unanswered.
   
• Presentations are great.
   
• The knowledge of the instructor was very complete.
   
• Our time was not wasted because all questions were answered.
   
• Dave’s sense of humour.
   
• Realising other people are having the same problems.
   
• Opened my eyes somewhat to realizing not to panic.
   
• Computer software with Practice Exams included with course.
   
• Provided a way to help reduce errors on reading questions.
   
• Provided realistic idea of content, questions, and topics on exam.
   
• Practice environment with exams.
   
• We need more of these.
   
• Good practice of how much, and what areas we need to concentrate on for studying.
   
• Discussions of process of how to best approach the case study.
   
• Practice, practice, practice.
   
• Actually simulating the exam.
   
• Understanding how to approach the case study more effectively.
   
• Knowledge of where to put study emphasis to get the best return on exam.
   
• Helps to focus on exam by having a course to check where you are.
   
• Showing how to avoid a lot of unnecessary work in reading the case study first.
   
• Shows how much I need to study.
   
• I have never had this benefit before.
   
• Very good use of the day.
   
• Explanation of calculations and why things are calculated the way they are.
   
• Number of different case studies different situation and applying information to each.
   
• Blunt and honest as to how tough the exam is.
   
• How to answer multiple choice questions.
   
• Increased my knowledge.
   
• Help me with the fear of taking tests. Thank you.
   
• I leave excited about the information I have learned.
   
• Technical approach.
   
• What to concentrate on.
   
• Reality check.
   
• Show me where to focus study time for last month.
   
• Evaluation of the level of which I am ready to write the exam.
   
• Great tips to help me while I’m writing exam.
   
• Too close to exam time. Wish it was a month earlier.
   
• Practice exams.
   
• Debriefs with explanations and discussions.
   
• Practice exams.
   
• Debriefs technical info.
   
• Writing tips.
   
• Exam writing techniques.
   
• Key areas to focus on.
   
• Not spending to much time on details of case study background info.
   
• Time management.
   
• Elimination process for multiple choices.
   
• Well explained and detailed.
   
• Overall very good courses.
   
• Encouraged in getting the other 10 - 15% of the marks that I need.
   
• How to answer multiple questions.
   
• Great approach on how to answer questions with process of elimination.
   
• What to concentrate on.
   
• Good practice & good reality check on studying strategies.
   
• Comfortable environment.
   
• Meeting David-----baseball cap analogy and other analogies very valuable.
   
• Approach to time management.
   
• Writing the practical exams under time pressure.
   
• Insight to exam intent.
   
• Got a feel of what is expected.
   
• Test writing technique.
   
• How to single out definitely wrong answers.
   
• Timed test very important as at home on the computer I have scads of time.
   
• Easy to follow instructor & he kept on topic.
   
• Course was too close to exam date.
   
• I like the 2 day split.
   
• Questions are a good indication as to areas I need to review & understand.
   
• Having the variety of sample questions is helpful.
   
• Descriptive answers to questions.
   
• Knowledge of instructor.
   
• Using the calculator.
   
• Understanding how to read the questions and go through process of elimination.
   
• Exam format to be expected.
   
• Knowing my weaknesses.
   
• Knowing where to concentrate the study effort.
   
• Simulate real exam.
   
• Helped identify areas needing more attention.
   
• Additional material or reference sources for uncertainties.
   
• Looking at logical way/explanations to answer or think out the questions.
   
• Got a reality check finding out how “not” prepared I am.
   
• Looking at answers first.
   
• Seeing how we were doing compared to others.
   
• Instructor knowledgeable.
   
• Key areas to study.
   
• Amount of knowledge needed.
   
• It clarified some issues on more complex questions.
   
• I found the discussion through the answer key very good.
   
• Laid back approach.
   
• Good examples/descriptions used when clarifying.
   
• Realize I still have lots of studying to do.
   
• Allows me to focus on important sections of the course of study.
   
• Gives me a better thought process in answering questions.
   
• Intensive exams sharpen skills.
   
• Instructor very good.
   
• The information about the typed of questions.
   
• Great insight on what will be on exam.
   
• Highlighting core areas to study.
   
• Allows me to assess my areas of strength/weakness.
   
• Material content was excellent.
   
• How to study for exam.
   
• David’s knowledge is incredible. He doesn’t need to look it up. All at the tip of his tongue.
   
• Good quality instruction.
   
• Pointed out my weakest and strongest areas of knowledge.
   
• Gave me some motivation to study hard because of lacklustre results on trial tests.
   
• David’s enthusiasm for the subject.
   
• The fact that the material reviewed is formatted the same as the exam.
   
• A lot of very valuable information has been provided.
   
• Clear communication by presenter.
   
• Full and compete explanations to our questions in English (understandable and well explained).
   
• Course could be longer as there is a lot of information to cover.
   
• Benchmarking exam results against rest of class and see if my trend is correct.
   
• Debrief…. Very relaxed, informed and interactive.
   
• David’s knowledge on many subjects.
   
• No advice to give you for improvement.
   
• Knowledge is superb.
   
• Material to take home.
   
• Saving time.
   
• Not long enough.
   
• Get used to the format of questions asked.
   
• Supplementary information obtained other than studying through the text books.
   
• Clarify some technical doubts through the course.
   
• David willing to answer questions.
   
• Tired at end of day.
   
• Enthusiastic presentation appreciated additional questions for study in tech & case.
   
• Major brain drain but well worth it.
   
• I have great confidence after this course.
   
• Test paper summaries very important basic topics.
   
• Good highlights on many complex issues.
   
• Humour.
   
• Moved at a good pace.
   
• Excellent speaker as topics were summarized well.
   
• Great job of explaining the need to know.
   
• A lot of stuff in so little time.
   
• Facilitator was excellent.
   
• Put me in better study mode.
   
• Good overview of possible test questions.
   
• Narrow the topics to learn for exam and how to study.
   
• Gave direction on how to approach studying for exam materials can be overwhelming without direction.
   
• Explained in detail to understand in a clear concise manner.
   
• Great presentation.
   
• Wished I had studied before.
   
• Enthusiastic instructor.
   
• Well laid out plan.
   
• Good summary of material.
   
• Questions very relevant.
   
• Great wealth of information.
   
• Great review of critical areas.
   

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