The first testlet in all CPA exams are always “medium” difficulty. From there, the next testlet depends how you do on the first “medium” difficulty testlet.
I just took BEC on Feb 12. It's my last exam and I certainly hope I pass. I don't want to take the new version in Q2 and have to wait few months for score release. That sounds absolutely absurd and insane to me.
I start full time work in Big 4 public accounting in Aug/Sept so I'd rather not have to worry about this test at all.
However, I *think* my MC testlets went medium-HARD-probably medium. Just a wild guess. But I know for sure my second testlet got insanely difficult with lots of twists, tricks, longer questions, multiple steps, etc. Took me almost an hour I think. What really bothers me is that I missed an extremely easy question, after I looked back into the book after I left the testing center. I read it too fast and selected an answer way too fast because I started freaking out about the time. I'm pretty sure that was NOT a pretest question either because it was a straight forward one-liner and one word answer. (Also, I definitely flagged a lot more than you. But I usually flag anything that I want to just take a look at a second time too, even if I think it's probably right. There were about 1-2 that I had to completely guess on because I had no idea how to do it)
Out of 24 questions each testlet, I think I read somewhere that there is like 5 pretest questions in each testlet? GEtting that one easy question that most likely isn't pretest is making me worry, lol. Especially since I don't think I did well on written communication. I have no issues writing complete sentences with correct grammar, spelling, punctuation, etc. I just didn't really know what to write about other than what they gave in the main question.
I think I am just freaking out. But that is usual after every exam. Sigh.
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