[Wannafree]

Hi FAR passed gurus
I am getting scared with seer volume of materials in FAR and in context f REG and BEC where I had paucity of time ,I am wondering what percentage in FAR would be long and short calculations ? How you people managed or it has sufficient time of 4 hours to solve MCQ and SIM ?

Your inputs are appreciated .

[ForgottenOne]

My own experience, at least 90 minutes was needed for me to complete the SIM. For MCQs, I glanced quickly at the math problems; what were given, and what was asking. I assessed and skipped long math problems to come back later. No point sitting there 5+ mins figuring out how to do it. You should know if you know how to work the problems just by glancing at them, and this should only take 10-15 secs.

[CPA8675309]

I'm wondering the same thing. If I plan spending 50 minutes per testlet and 90 minutes for the sims, is that adequate? Do people have time for a break? I'll probably wait until after the second or third testlet to figure that out, I suppose.

[Goingallin]

I think as long as you have at least 60 mins for Far you'll do fine. FAR SIM questions were a lot faster to answer than AUD. Less wordy.

[Anonymous]

^No way. U should definitely plan for more than 60 minutes for your FAR Sims. At the Bare Minimum 75 mins for your Sims. Everyone is different, but I would recommend 90 minutes to be safe. My Sims were pretty challenging and lengthy for my FAR exam in Q3. Goodluck!

[Wannafree]

What about MCQ ?what percentage are for calculations and no calc questions ?

[Anonymous]

For me 90 minutes for SIMs was not enough in this window. There was one of 7 which i did not even try to start.
Perhaps this is because I got too tired in the end.

[krstnam]

When I took FAR, I had a lot of computation questions. Most of them weren't difficult per se, it was more just really really long. There were several questions I skipped and circled back to at the end of the testlet because I knew it was going to take several minutes to complete the computation.

I left 90 minutes for my SIMs – one was a lost cause because I didn't even remember studying that information. There was one other SIM that I knew how to do the first half, but the second half I had no idea. One of the SIMS was INCREDIBLY LONG. 90 minutes was just enough for me to do 5.5 SIMS adequately (adequately is an overstatement bc I bombed that test). I think had I known how to do the last SIM 90 minutes would have barely been enough time.

[Goingallin]

Obviously the more time for FAR SIM the better but since multiple choice questions are worth more, I wouldn't rush through them just to have 90+ mins for SIM. For me, the FAR multiple choice questions took longer to answer due to more calculations than the other exams. I was simply stating that 60 mins is the min requirement.

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