So I took AUD this morning at my favorite Miami Prometric center, hopefully those people won't have to see me anymore.
I am through trying to predict this exam. But honestly, a lot of the multiple choice questions seemed really familiar. I breezed through the first testlet, had to make a few educated guesses on the second and third testlets, but even most of them were doable, I thought.
I finished all 3 multiple choice testlets in less than 1 hour, and I swear I wasn't even hurrying. It's always interesting on any given exam, what they hit HARD, and what gets almost utterly ignored by the sheer luck of the draw. Some of the same topics were being thrown at me over and over again in there this morning! And 2 of the areas in which I expected A LOT MORE questions were almost entirely ignored. I've taken all 4 parts now, and I haven't seen it that lopsided since my first section, REG.
OK, so on to the sims. Just like the FAR sims, a couple of the tabs were a little tricky, but not entirely undoable. A couple of the tabs were pretty simple. The memos? Kinda stupid memos if you ask me. I banged out the memos without too much trouble, I probably scavenged some decent points. Judging from my performance on REG and FAR, I have a feeling that the written communication tab has been a friend of mine throughout my CPA exam experience. The research tabs, I'm pretty sure I nailed both of them.
Am I insane? I finished this exam in 2 hours and 5 minutes, and I didn't feel like I was hurrying, either. I knew I'd finish early…I ALWAYS do, but I didn't think I'd finish that early. I guess that's what not having to deal with a bunch of computation does for me.
Not going to predict my score, but I'd like to think that I at least accumulated enough points to pass. Even on the few questions on which I had to make an educated guess, I really feel like I was able to nail them down to two options. So, given my performance on the other 3 parts, I'm simply going to assume that I passed, and wait for my score. It's been a hell of a ride, I'll tell you guys that much. Way back when I was in undergrad in the late 1990s, I honestly did not see myself in the position I found myself in this morning, just needing to pass one more section of the CPA exam. I remember looking at CPA review books back then and being utterly flabbergasted by what I saw. I thought there was no way in hell I'd ever pass even one section of this exam, much less the whole thing. I guess that grad school and a good deal of work experience have helped me beyond what I thought possible.
REG – 90
BEC – 84
FAR – 91
AUD – Score pending
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