[Cruzer]

If you are scoring a 80% avg on the MC section of NINJA MCQ’s I am a firm believer you will score around 5% higher on the actual exam for this portion. My question is if you score 80% on MCQ’s you would need around 75% on the SIMS. If MCQ’s are not your weakpoint, how do you prepare best for SIMS? Does it really come down to knowing the material and the type of question/format should not matter?

[bigcore20]

Sims are the reason audit is so difficult and why it's the hardest to pass. Usually MCQ you can fly by without issue, but sims are completely luck based. You have to really know the material, but even if you know it, there are things on there that becker or other courses don't even cover at all. It takes a certain level of luck and natural ability to do well on some of those sims. Some people will get easy sims, others will get really hard ones.

[Missy]

for the sims know HOW to use the authoritative literature and use it on every single sim.

I don't care if the SIM is “what letter comes after A in the alphabet” use the AL.

Leave yourself plenty of time to do so. You'd be surprised what you can figure out using the AL, practically makes it an open book test and low hanging fruit. Even if the SIM is a journal entry and you're 90% sure of which accounts to use look it up you may see something that corrects you.

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