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This is my first post here so just looking for some feedback or if anyone else felt this way…
I took the AUD exam last Friday. I wasn’t totally dominating Becker’s final exams or progress tests but I was pulling a 75-85% on just about everything. I felt like I had a good understanding of all the material, weren’t any topics I had ignored.
Then I sit down to my exam and start doing the questions in the first testlet. I was blown away by the difficulty. The questions were all paragraphs in length, and the answers were at least 2 lines. Very few straight-forward questions. I literally had ZERO one-line questions with one-word answers. It took me about 45 minutes just to get through the first testlet and I must have marked 10 questions. What was most disappointing to me was that about 25% of my questions were topics that Becker did not emphasize or even mention sometimes.
I was pretty discouraged after the first testlet and wondering if I just got a fluky, comparatively difficult exam or what was going on. I regrouped and made it through the other 2 testlets okay but not unscathed. SIMS were SIMS, hard to tell either way. Didn’t see the type of thing that you can just look up in the AL like others have posted though. Was more scenario specific type of stuff, so I can’t sit here and say I know I nailed 100% on any of them or anything.
So what I’m saying to those studying here is don’t underestimate this exam! I passed FAR with a 92 while working full time by using only Becker. I studied for FAR for a month and a half and took it in late July. Studied for over a month for Audit (about 100-120 hours total) and left that exam frustrated with Becker and hoping I was a good guesser that day.
FAR- 92 (7/25/2014)
AUD- 93 (8/30/2014)
REG- 93 (10/10/2014)
BEC- 91 (11/10/2014)Using Becker self-study only. Working full-time.
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