Who made
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Exam Copilot is an independent, self-funded study tool for the FAR section of the US CPA Exam. It is built by one small team, not by a review-course publisher, and it is not affiliated with the AICPA, NASBA, Prometric, or any state board of accountancy.
Why the number starts low
The product exists because of a specific complaint: every readiness dashboard in CPA review tells candidates they are doing fine, and roughly six in ten FAR candidates do not pass. We could not find one that publishes how much evidence sits behind its number, or what happens to that number when a candidate skips simulations. So we built the estimate we wanted to have, and then wrote down everything it cannot do — on /methodology/, not in a footnote.
An estimate that is uncomfortable and honest is more useful before an exam than a comfortable one, and it is the only kind you can responsibly attach a promise to later.
Editorial rules we hold ourselves to
- Every figure carries its source and the date we checked it. Figures we have not confirmed against a primary source are flagged unverified on the page and in the JSON behind it.
- No testimonials, no user counts, no “trusted by”. We have not earned any of those yet, and inventing them is the specific dishonesty this site is a reaction to.
- No practice item on this site or in the product comes from the exam or from any review course. Every item is written by us against the public Blueprint and reviewed by a licensed CPA before it is served to anyone paying.
- We do not name competitors. If a comparison is worth making, it is worth making about methods rather than brands.
- When we are wrong in public, the correction goes on the page, not in a changelog nobody reads.
Contact
Corrections, source challenges, and “your number said X and I scored Y” reports are all welcome, and the last of those is genuinely valuable to us — comparing what the estimate said with what actually happened is the only path to calibrating it at all.