[Anonymous]

I mainly have used the Wiley CPA exam materials this time. I did read through the CPA excel text.

While going through the Wiley text I did fairly well but don’t remember what my exact scores were. None were below 70.

After re-reading, re-studying and re-typing the notes I took from Wiley’s AUD book, I have achieved the following:

Overall score out of 798 questions, I scored a total of 81.2%.

My lowest score was a 73.8% on any one section with the next lowest being 76.5. The rest were in the 82-87% range.

I plan to go through the questions at least two more times, if not three before my test on 1/18. I also will re-do my mnemonics for audit reports and other pertinent information multiple times.

Am I ready?

[porschify]

I would just caution that you actually know why the answers that you are getting correct are correct, why the others are wrong, and can understand the answer if the verbiage in the question changed. I wouldnt want you to get a false sense of security from doing so many questions.

REG- 81
BEC- 72,76
AUD- 67,88
FAR- 78

Done!

[Anonymous]

Definitely, I guess the good side of having a poor memory is that I can't remember whether the answers are A B C or D for a given question.

I guess I am an oddball but here's what I found when going through the multiple choice quesitons. First time through, there are many which you guess at (followed by another review of your notes). The second time through, you find more which you understand and less you guess at. The next time, you find some that you do remember the answers to but then something begins to happen when you begin to remember why the aswers are correct. Finally, you get most of them right.

I am, however, understanding what you are saying and why. I don't just select answer A because I remember it was A, I selected it because that's the right answer and as I am going through I will try to restate the answer and question in a differnt manner to recall the facts.

So I am saying that my 81% is an honest 81% reworking the questions as if I had never seen them before.

I hope I am ready. I can't imagine anything else I could have done differently. I've been getting up at 5 every morning and coming into work to study, nights, weekends. I hand wrote 120 something pages of notes from wiley's text and studied the material hard while taking the notes. I typed the notes, which required me to relearn it because of my terrible handwriting and shorthand. Now I will have done the questions at least 4 maybe 5 times achieving an 81% + through 800 questions. I'll have my mneomonics memorized including my list of report mnemonics…for instance MWA—I think of MAW and then that helps me remember that for a Material Weakness Identified, the opinion is Adverse.

I am about ready to happen to this auditing exam and it will give me a boost because I should get my scores back 3 weeks before my BEC. Assuming that I do well on auditing that will help me jam on BEC. Then it is a rest during tax season and Reg in May. Finish up with FAR in August.

Thanks,

CPAPending

[yankeeaccountant]

I think it sounds like you are good to go. I am taking it next week also, and was wondering if you could take it for me???? LOL! Seriously, you sound well prepared. I will end up doing the Becker mcq's twice and Wiley Review book 740 mcq's. I am toying with doing the Wiley a second time, but I think I will probably go through progress tests until game day. Focusing on reading notes and notecards and weak areas.

I am curious, just how much different is the exam from 1994? How much better/worse do you think the exam is? I realize that you havent taken one in the new format, but you have the study materials–any thoughts?

Best of luck to you!!!

[Anonymous]

Best of luck to you also.

I haven't taken the CPA exam in the computerized format but I have taken the SEE exam to be an Enrolled Agent. I found the computerized format to be a GREAT and vastly superior way to take the exam. I'm comfortable in front of a computer and you are in a cubicle like thing which eliminates neighbor issues. Of course the SEE exam didn't adjust difficulty if you do well and you got your results right then.

When I last took it, it was with 5,000 other hapless souls in a giant convention center in Atlanta near the airport. You could hear echos in there. If someone farted, I bet 20 people would drop dead from the stress. Getting lunch out was a nightmare as there was nowhere to eat. It was a literal 5 minute walk to the bathroom across the way. Very cold in atmosphere and awful. The computerized exams are like being at work, much more comfortable and quiet.

The worst part of the old way was sitting at a folding table with a neighbor. I had gum poppers, manic erasers who kept brushing their shavings on my papers, throat clearers, etc. But the worst, dead level worst, was the knee knocker. This guy was continually tapping his knee against the cross brace for the table making it shake like an earthquake. I finally grabbed the table and said “STOP” which of course echoed. Proctor came over and I thought I was going to be thrown out.

Except for the adjustment of the exam to be more difficult, the exam is much easier now. Plus, you can take one part at a time which, for me and my limited memory abillity, is a Godsend.

CPAPending

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