[wrj02]

SO…Monday I found out I failed BEC….not too much of a surprise, but what was more surprising was that I got a 73 (which irks me). The fact that I failed wasn’t a surprise because when I was sitting for the exam, I:

1) checked to make sure I was taking BEC for the CPA exam. I was getting all sorts of questions that I had never seen in Becker. Granted, I only used becker…and yes, I am aware that sometimes BEC can be a crap shoot. But I was literally guessing on almost half of each testlet, not because I had recognized the information but didn’t know the answer, but because I had never seen it before!

2) Contemplated walking out because I knew where this was going. Weeks of non-stop studying and now, non-stop guessing. Bonus was I knew all the WC’s, and I feel I am fairly strong in writing, so I think that went well. Still have yet to see a progress report.

My question is, has anyone else gone through this? I feel like I was fairly prepared, maybe not for a 99, but at least prepared enough to make a 75 or better. I didn’t feel weak in any certain areas as I had in past exams.

It is busy season after all, so that was my goal to begin with. Because of this I want to sit again in a few weeks, just doing a review of all the chapters similar to how I review a couple weeks before a normal CPA exam.

Has anyone else had a similar situation and success in the retake?

FAR 77
REG 82
BEC 73, 83
AUD 59???, 87! DONE!

[Anonymous]

@Garion, it looks like we had the exact same experience. First testlet was a complete joke.

Second and third were definitely wordier and focused on theory. Calcs were harder than the first testlet but that's not saying much seeing as they were a joke in the first testlet. Definitely thinking my finance degree helped as well as having graduated in May…

Glad to see you and @rzr seemed to have the same experience as I did…

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