[jimboace88]

Just a quick post to say how I felt about AUD….

Much like my experience with FAR, I already can’t remember what most of the multiple choice were on. Also, much like FAR, I DO remember that the difficulty of the questions seemed to stay pretty consistent. There was no time that I thought “wow, these are getting hard.” Whether that’s a result of my dedicated studying or whether it’s attributable to something else remains to be seen…

As far as SIMS, I really didn’t find them to be as bad as a lot of people make them out to be. The first two or three were COMICALLY easy because 1.) I knew them immediately and 2.) I was able to verify my answers word for word using the research tab. The remaining ones ranged from moderate difficulty to substantially difficult, but at no point did they feel impossible or unreasonable; anything I didn’t know cold was my own fault and did not have anything to do with what Becker did or didn’t cover.

I did, however, write a somewhat lengthy rant in my closing comments regarding my research question. Without going into too much detail, I informed them that the question was EXCESSIVELY vague and that there were several areas I found in the standards that adequately answered the question they had posed to me. In addition, I expressed my anger at the fact that all of the time I spent preparing would be wasted if that question were the deciding factor between my pass and fail because I had the correct answer but it was one of MANY correct answers and I was certain that if my number did not match with their pre-programmed computer answer, no credit would be awarded for the question. Was it maybe a little over the top? Sure, but they deserve to have to sit through reading it for giving me such a vague question. No, I’m not exaggerating and no, I’m not misunderstanding what the call of the question was.

Besides that one point of tension, I find myself feeling much the same as I did after FAR–not a clue as to how I performed and forced to wait at least a month to find out. :-/

Good luck to anyone else who is taking exams in the recent future!

FAR 07/27/11 - 87
AUD 10/01/11 - 85
BEC 11/15/11 - 87
REG 01/03/12 - 92