APbandJ let me elaborate so i dont freak you out. lol the first time i didn't put the time nor effort into studying for this test. i hadn't opened a book since 09 when i finished my accounting degree …it was really hard for me to sit down and study after two years of getting used to social life of going out, traveling etc etc..
.now the second time around i only studied a month ( FEB 2012) and i only used the weekends, mostly.
I work full time so i only had the weekends to use. But the second time around, when i actually put forth the time and effort, i felt confident . i think if i have had one more weekend to practice questions on a timed basis, i wouldn't have ran out of time to answer the WC on the actual Exam.
i scored weak on Corp Governance, CIS and Operation management _ ( this was all definitions since it was just definitions ,i didn't take the time to study it so, i had to take an educated guess on these MCQs )
i scored Comparable on economics concept and analysis , strategic planing
and stronger on financial management
also ..in regards to the formulas. i thought the same thing .. but you will learn them. they are tied with the concepts , so learn the concept you wont really have to memorize the formulas.. oh and fyi! my retake asked me to compute the quick ratio!! so you could be lucky and get an easy question too.
so to sum it up! you have to take the time to study and prepare …so i don't really count my first time . lol
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