CPA_WDJ,
Sounds like you must have been given a similar exam to the one I took last week. I'm almost positive I took an uneducated guess at the first 5 questions…not even sure I'd heard any of the topics or subjects of 20-25 of the questions in the first two testlets.
Then, the third testlet was nothing but “normal” answerable questions that were actually based on materials covered.
I felt like it was an enormous IQ test (with no directions, causing you to have to draw conclusions based on relationships or similarities or contrasts). As long as they throw pitches(questions) that are in the box whether it be a strike or a ball…or at least in the direction of the catcher I seem to have no problem – but when they start pitching half-cocked, over your head into the grandstands I just want to run out and smash the pitcher in the mouth.
If they grade the last section only – I scored really well, if they grade all three – I failed miserably.
They should consider testing less of the ambiguity surrounding the accounting field and focus more on the useful/practical details that are most readily encountered in the work place.
Someone clearly gets their jollies out of throwing 5 bizzarro questions at candidates followed by what is a testable question just to scramble the candidates brain in an attempt to make the candidate believe they don't know the material. I say stick to the material and STOP trying to be so dammmmed cute all the time. It doesn't make the exam any more dynamic or challenging or interesting – it just makes it look cheap and contrived as if they can't give you questions from the material to challenge you they have to stoop to cheap trickery.
That said, I look forward to taking this test or my remaining sections as many times as I have to – no matter the time or expense; I've way too much time, effort and energy invested in this to ever even consider looking back now. I'm not made of money but the AICPA must think I am as the more I look at their actions, delayed reactions and bogus tactics I'm convinced its just a money grab …I'd much prefer to just write them a check for some outrageous amount and be done with their shannanigans but now I'm dug in to beat them at their own game – however rudely elementary their test creating skillsets.
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