OK, I took the exam on 4/1. This was my second time around. I got a 68 the first time. Terrible week and testing experience, just caught some bad luck. This is my final exam. FAR – 79, AUD – 80, REG – 76 – BEC – waiting.
I have become an expert in what NOT to do when it comes to studying. I used Becker for the first three and do not recommend in for BEC. If you are just even a little bit familiar witht he course material, Gleim is the way to. 98 bucks will get you the software, 1735 questions in test and study format, you can print questions, reorder them, randomize the answer selections. The book cuts straight to the point without all the fluff Becker has. The test questions this time around were no where near the difficulty of Becker or Gleim. Becker gives so many more formulas than you need and half of the stuff they expound on you will never see. Most of it is extremely outdated.
Hang in there UGH..CPA.. I know the feeling….
I read every page of the book and highlight important parts and used colored flags to mark the pages with formulas. I answered every problem and while i answered them, I marked all the ones that i felt were questions that would be good to review during my final review. I picked ones that i missed because i did not know the answer and the ones with key formulas, definitions and concepts and left all the others out. That dwindled 1735 down to 800 for my final review.
In summary, without knowing my latest score, there was not one questions that I had not seen something similar to except for a few questions on the first testlet. There were a few questions on the first testlet that did not make any sense and out of all the questions i answered I did not even know how to really approach them. The second and third tabs were much straightforward and followed exactly what i read and studied.
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