[Anonymous]

I just finished watching all the Yaeger lectures for AUD yesterday. During the lectures I paid close attention to everything Gary (the instructor) said and I took extensive notes. I believe I grasped the concept of the material he taught. He even went over a lot of MCQs from the Wiley book and he explained the answers for all of them and I was able to understand his explanations. Well, after I finished the lectures, I started doing a lot of the review MCQs at the end of the module that Gary didn’t cover and I also did many of the AICPA released questions in the back of the book. Well, I was getting a lot of them wrong. Here are the reasons why I’m getting answers wrong….

1) The wording of the question can be hard to understand sometimes. So sometimes, I’m like, what the heck are they asking?

2) Most of the time, I can narrow down my choices to 2 and give myself a 50/50 shot, but I always end up picking the wrong one. For some reason, the wrong answer always seems attractive.

3) The questions are very tricky. A whole sentence in a choice can be correct, but one word makes it wrong. I always fail to detect that wrong word and thus, I screw up on the question.

Because of this, I’m going to end up with a 40 on this exam even though I paid very close attention to the Yaeger lectures and understood the material. I’m answering these MCQs like a complete dummy that has never opened a book during the past 2 weeks. I don’t understand what is wrong with me. Many people I knew in college liked Auditing and were good at it because there’s no math involved, but I don’t know, I guess I’m one of the few people that’s struggling to do well on these questions. And that’s scary because that means other test takers will do way better than me and thus, I’ll fail miserably when I take the exam on May 28th.

Anyways, I have 6 more weeks to prepare for this exam. The way I’m going, that seems like a very short amount of time. Can somebody here help give me some advice and tips that will help me tackle these questions so I can do well?? I’d appreciate all the help that anyone can give. It’s a matter of life and death, lol.

Thank you all!!

[Anonymous]

I began the AUD review this week Yaeger and I feel like it is reading comprehension on steroids. To make matters worse the instructor is dull. I assume he is a good instructo,r but I am ready for him to dance , or call me sweetie or something to mix it up a bit.

I actually enjoyed BEC and REG but this is slow and dull

[Anonymous]

annette1- If you're just sitting back and watching Gary's lecture, yeah, it's boring. But if you take notes on everything he says and listen carefully, then you'll see that his lectures are very informative and clear. You will fully understand the concept. Gary is the only instructor that was able to help me understand the concepts. In college and in other review courses, AUD felt like a foreign language that I could never understand. With Yaeger, I'm finally understanding the material.

[JoeyCramp]

You guys are incredible. I just got my Yaeger AUD stuff and began to study and really began to feel hopeless that fast, but you guys have changed my mood. I guess just knowing others are going through this struggle helps to ease the pain. I am taking AUD in july as my first part ever and im pretty nervous about it. The material is so dense as someone so correctly said earlier. Its nice to learn from people who have taken it what actually helps pass (MCQs it seems like after reading all of these posts). I was also wondering how important you all thought the simulations were? Thanks for all the advice its so helpful.

@bammers2, could you send me that answer sheet as well?? thanks

[Anonymous]

@joey and @Kandis, I'm going to edit your post to delete your email address to help prevent spammers from getting your email address. If someone else would like the blank answer sheet and I haven't sent it to you within a day or so, you may wanna ask Joey or Kandis for it as I'm not on here every day and may forget to check this particular thread.

[kandisjoy]

Thanks bammers2. I was going to delete it but I couldn't edit my post.

FAR: 71, 77
BEC: 70, 82
AUD: 62, 78
REG: 71, 68, 85

CA Licensed 11/2011

[sdollen64]

Long time reader, first time poster – I've seen a lot of different opinions on how to use the Yaeger Audit HS material.

1. Watch all the videos

2. Take notes as you watch

3. Re-write your notes

4. Go through the MCQs

I wondered what methods others have used for the Yaeger material?

Thanks in advance!

[kb24]

I didn't use Yaeger but I used the Wiley book and test bank. The thing that helped me the most were the MCQ. I did the ones in the book as I studied the material and then the ones on the test bank when I was reviewing. Getting used to the wording really helped me catch on to the tricks I was likely to see and to see the subtle differences between two answers that were both right but one was better.

FAR 4/1/11 - 89
AUD 4/15/11 - 85
REG 4/29/11 - 80
BEC 5/13/11 - 85

[AaronDHowell]

I noted that the AICPA.org sample test questions were less straight-forward than the Wiley's I have through Roger. That being said, I'll stay faithful in my prep regiment. Roger's worked well for me thus far – I'm confident!

3 down, one to go!

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FAR 89

AUD 5/27/11

REG 82

BEC 89

REG - 92 (old exam)
BEC - 89 (old exam)
FAR - 89 (new exam)
AUD - 82 (new exam) Done and Done-er!

[Author]

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