[Jsn3004]

I’m becoming more and more frustrated that my trending score for Audit isn’t going up. I was stuck at an 80 and my trending score has gone down to a 77 despite averaging in the low 80’s over the past few MCQ sessions. I can’t imagine hitting an 85 in trending.

Also i’m worried that i’m just going to see a bunch of long questions on the CPA exam and that will eat up my time. And I already struggle with SIMS. Whenever I took FAR, the actual SIMs on the exam were much harder than any of the SIMS I saw while reviewing.

The worst part is the wait to get my scores back. It took 8 days for FAR which was fine, BEC took over 3 weeks (which seemed like an eternity), and now i’ll be waiting almost 3 months for my score. I know i’ll keep studying Audit because I can’t imagine that I feel so good after the exam that I stop studying. I guess i’ll have to start studying for Regulation as well as reviewing for audit for 3 months. Call me unreasonable but even if the exam is changing, making people wait for over 3 months makes no sense and is very unfair, especially since we take the exam on a computer. Hopefully there’s still spots in Q3 just incase I didn’t pass Audit. And that will still be over a month of waiting as well.

Sorry for the rant, I just wanted to get it off my chest. I hope everybody else’s day is going well.

[cmcook]

What prep are you using? My Gleim scores were a lot lower than my actual score (spread of 12 points), and the questions on the exam were about 25% easier – hopefully that makes you feel better.

[Anonymous]

I've talked to people who never got above 50% on any practice exams. People place WAY too much emphasis on trending and get all worried and freaked out….and then they pass.
Trends are not useful for stuff like CPA exam prep because the practice questions are generally harder than the ones you'll get on the exams. I'd almost say “take your practice test score
and add 15-20 percent to it and that's what you can expect on the CPA exam.”

[Jsn3004]

@crazyleon At least in my experience it seems the MCQs and especially the SIMS were harder when I took my exams

@cmcook I used CPA Excel and i'm supplementing with Ninja MCQs. I feel like i'll have to change what i'm using because I know i'll have to keep studying after I take the exam just incase I don't pass. I can't use the same material I already used for another 3 months because I feel i'll just remember everything. Maybe I'll use Gleim or something.

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