[MandiJ21]

For those of you who took and passed Audit, did the test go better or worse than you expected? I passed FAR in January which was my first test but I studied for 12 weeks (over 300 hours-probably overkill). I felt like I understood that material more than I am for Audit. So far I’ve put in about 6 weeks and I’m still really unsure about certain areas and I only have 2 weeks to go before test day Sometimes I think its clicking and other times I have serious doubts that I’ll pass. This anxiety may come from the fact that I have no auditing experience and the one class I took on the subject was awful only b/c the professor was pretty terrible. Just looking to find out others’ experience with this section and if there is anything else I can do to better prepare myself.

FAR-85 (1/28/15)
AUD-91 (4/3/15)
BEC-82 (5/21/15)
REG-90 (7/31/15)

I am done!!!!

[thelawnwranglers]

Definitely went way better than I thought

that said so far I have found I either kill it (94 AUD and 89 BEC) or I flounder (REG 66)

so hard to say what is right.

What are you using to study and what are your MC percentages?

[MandiJ21]

Wow, I'm jealous of your AUD score! That being said though, I'd take a 75 on the rest of my tests at this point. I'm using CPAExcel which has been working pretty well with my schedule and the way I learn. I'm also using the NINJA combo, mainly for the MCQs and notes. My trending score is 84% and average is 79%.

FAR-85 (1/28/15)
AUD-91 (4/3/15)
BEC-82 (5/21/15)
REG-90 (7/31/15)

I am done!!!!

[thelawnwranglers]

That sounds like a win to me

Becker I usually tried to stay above 80%- if so I was happy

[Anonymous]

I sat for Audit because my NTS was going to go stale…

I had 4 years audit experience and simply read through the book once and focused on new areas – all within a week of the exam. I got a 76.

I left very confused, thinking I either got a 75 or a 40.

[Anonymous]

AUD is the one I remember the least.

I took AUD after passing FAR and was extremely burnt out. Similar to you, I overkilled on study time (6+ hours a day, nearly every day, for 2 months) so when I finished, my brain was fried and it was very hard to study for AUD. I pushed through Becker and did each MCQ twice and about half the Sims. In total I spent less than 100 hours on AUD where on FAR I spent well over 200.

I left my exam feeling pretty good. I definitely noticed it went Medium, Hard, Hard. I don't remember my Sims in too much detail but I do remember getting home and kicking myself for forgetting that I could use the AL on one of them (it would have spelled out the answer for me word for word if I had thought of it). I know I got my research question right but it took me over 20 minutes to figure out. It was my first sim and after about 10 minutes I knew I was wasting time and had to circle back to it. I finished my other Sims and came back to my research question, spent another 10 minutes spinning my wheels when I finally sat back and realized I was going about it the wrong way. Tried a couple of different search terms and, almost immediately, came back with the answer, word for word, staring me in the face.

Overall I felt good coming out of the exam but not great. So far it's my lowest score but, like I said, I blame that for being so burnt out from FAR. After passing AUD that gave me the motiviation to hit BEC hard and I'm hitting REG with the same intensity.

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