[coffees56]

Wow…I prepared super hard for this section. I think between both of my mcqs I got anywhere from 7-17 wrong. Second testlet seemed easier, but had all sorts of curves balls thrown in it. The sims were incredibly time consuming and grinding. I feel good about the writing section though, but man, that was wayyyy harder than FAR. I don’t know what I should even think at this point.

[Jessica]

Hi! Are MCQs more calculation based or more concept based? Are they heavy in COSO or IT?

[PDiddy2000]

@Coffees56 not going to lie to you, your BEC post is not at all inspiring. Hahaha. I was on the fence on rescheduling my BEC exam from the end of August to the first week of September. I'm going to that for sure now.

[krstnam]

I did BEC in June. I was expecting lots of calc questions and coso, erm and IT. I was surprised how few questions were similar to my study material. The questions were definitely more conceptualization and I swear I saw some questions on my audit study materials.
When I did FAR I thought for sure I failed and left so upset bc I didn’t put in enough study hours. BEC I walked out like WTF was that exam I just took because it sure as hell wasnt something I studied for.

[CPA2020]

I just took BEC on July 6th. This was a retake from April, and it was weighted MUCH differently than my first exam. Like @Krstnam said, none of my difficult practice questions from the review courses were tested. The tougher concepts I prepared for were barely tested. I spent the last three days of review hammering out the most difficult multi-stepped calculation problems–completely absent! It felt like a completely different section than my first experience. It seems like they are evolving BEC into a much different test. I don't know if this is a good thing or a bad thing. I couldn't tell if my second testlet was “harder” or not. My SIMs were 50/50 manageable and very difficult.

[coffees56]

When you took BEC the first time how did you do on the sims? I feel like the sims might’ve killed my chances this time

[CPA2020]

I had the same experience the first time: two manageable SIMs and two difficult. After my first exam, I realized I made a really stupid mistake on one of the manageable SIMS. So I only did well on one of the four. This time, I felt much better about the SIMs, but still made some educated guesses on two of them. Hopefully the worst one was the pretest.

[coffees56]

What did you get the first time?

[CPA2020]

Ugh, it was bad. I got a 65. I didn't manage my time and only had 14 minutes for WC. I spent 12 minutes on one WC, 1.5 minutes on the second WC, and wrote “Thank you for allowing me to assist you” on the last WC before the clock expired.

[allusuc]

Just took the exam. By far the hardest exam compared to the other 3. I passed the other 3 first try. This one, I made almost all guesses on the first testlet. Second testlet was easier which means I didn’t do well on the first. Full of computations on the first testlet. I studied using Rogers and was able to pass the other 3. Really sad right now.

[coffees56]

How’d you feel about your sims? Mine were doable but insanely long and I had to cut them short because I was worried I wouldn’t have enough time for the wc

[allusuc]

Sims were strange. Stuff that wasn’t in my review course at all.

How were your McQ though? Did u understand how to do all the computations? I had 15-20 computations in the first testlet. And a ton of IT. Did you feel the same?

[lnichole99]

I took BEC on 7/17 and I felt like my first MC testlet was really hard. The second one got easier so that’s not good. The Sims were manageable and the writing was fairly easy. I was disappointed because I didn’t get any economics questions and barely any computations which were my strengths. Very disappointed!

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