@Peanut–Thanks for the info. I did feel that the testlets got harder as I progressed. The second one was so hard that I decided to take a break right after to breathe a little. 🙂 As far as the questions, I felt like Becker does not do a good job on going in depth about COSO– It tells you to memorize a bunch of mnemonics and read through the material, but I don't think it makes you think logically about the concepts in regard to COSO as the CPA exam expects you to do. I did feel that a lot of topics that Becker emphasizes were left out and the ones that Becker under-emphasizes were heavily tested. Again, they could have been pretest questions…who knows. I can think of two or three questions where I was completely blank and had to work my logic on them in order to make educated guesses. I wish you the best on your exam tomorrow!
@CrownRoyal– I personally feel that you should know the calculations for BEC but, more importantly, you should also know the logic behind the calculations rather than just memorize the formulas. For example, you may get a question that is mainly theory but is based on a calculation. So you would need to know how to work it out. Something that looking back I should have done is to take a test bank question and change the scenarios on it. (i.e. what if tax rate increases/decreases, etc). To be honest, I used Becker and it seemed to me that the Becker final exams were more calculation-intensive than the actual exam was.
BEC - 86
FAR - 76
AUD - 73, 86
REG - 61, 73, 82
DONE!!
CPA, CIA, CRMA
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