[Zander89]

Any advice and/or shedules anyone used to study for their exams while working full time in Public Accounting? Audit is my last exam, and any adivice is greatly appreciated. Thanks and best of look to everyone studying!

FAR-81

REG-80

AUD-71- retake: 11/24

BEC-75

[littlenumberrobot]

I work in public accounting and am studying. I get to work early study 1 hr, then another 1 hr at lunch and twice a week 2 hours at night. On Fridays I skip out on early morning and lunch and just do 2 hrs in afternoon because we get off early during non-busy season. Then 4 hours on Saturday and finish up on Sunday if I havent met my weekly material target. I used this schedule for FAR and BEC(most recent attempts). Passed FAR, will find out later thsi month on BEC.

CA CPA - All because of the journey listed below
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FAR - 53('10), 8/25/12 79 PASSED!
REG - 66('11), 69('12), 12/06/12 77 PASSED!!
BEC - 58('10), 74('12), 01/05/13 77 PASSED!!!
AUD - 43('11), 66('12), 69('13), 74('13) 7/29/13 85 PASSED!!!!!

(Combinations of Roger, Yaeger, Wiley Book, Wiley TB, & NINJA Notes)

Ethics 90%

[rafferty85]

I just study two hours a day… 3 hours on the weekends, and take a week off before the exam.

FAR: 81
REG: 75
BEC: 87
AUD: 90

[tfsb89]

I am not one who can get up early enough in the morning to study and usually get home around 7ish (I go to gym after work) and close everything down at 9:30. On Fridays I'll try to do 3 hours before I go out with friends and on weekends I wake up and start studying at 8 and go until 5. I also will be off all thanksgiving week and take the exam that Saturday so I'll be doing 8-5ish all that week as well. This seems like a lot but I have only given myself 3 weeks so it's necessary. I also work in Audit which is a big help, IMO.

EDIT: One thing I want to clarify – Sometimes I do not study the full 2.5 hours or the entire day Saturday and Sunday and sometimes I study more. For each exam I have created my own study plan. My plan has been to assign certain sections for each day (I use Becker). If it is a long section I will usually give myself more than one day. For Chapters 3 and 4 (the big ones in Audit) I made sure to plan to have the weekend to do them. If I finish the section I had planned for that day in an hour, I may review some notecards, but usually I'll close the book. If it takes me 3 hours to finish the sections I had planned for that day I'll stay up later.

FAR - 83
BEC - 85
AUD - 86
REG - 77

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