@aspiring1accountant: This exact question has come up a few times in this thread. Most of us are convinced that the all of the answers are incorrect and it was a mistake. At any rate, I suggest just forgetting that one and moving on. Especially if you understand the underlying concept behind it.
@aspiringcpa2014: At the risk of incurring Jeff’s wrath, yes, I do believe I could have passed BEC only using Becker and no NINJA but I think it would have been a lot harder. One of my problems with Becker is that, outside of the practice tests, they don’t give you the option of giving you an assortment of random questions from every topic. And the problem with the practice test is that I want to know immediately if I missed a question. Not an hour later when I can’t remember what my justification for choosing answer A was. If I miss a question, I want to know immediately that I missed it and why I missed it. That’s where NINJA MCQ shines. I don’t advise using it until you’ve completed all of the Becker lectures. But once you do, NINJA is great.
But Becker is a fantastic product. Just very expensive and I do think I could have passed BEC with only using Becker. I passed AUD with only Becker and FAR with only a little NINJA so it, absolutely, can be done.
@fightingforsanity: I’d say at this point you want to hit MCQ as hard as possible and just keep going. To be blunt, if you don’t understand the concepts yet you’re going to be in a world of hurt on exam day. But you’ve passed the other 3 portions so you already know that and will probably be fine. I’d just focus on MCQ as much as possible and if you have areas that you know you are weak on, focus on those areas first.
@Candcane: I’m sorry about your score. As Jeff has said, there hasn’t been a single successful appeal that anyone is aware of so I’m not sure that it would be beneficial. The question is how far along with REG are you? If you’re already a couple of chapters into REG, you might just want to stick it out, take REG in April and then circle back to BEC in May.
My biggest piece of advice for all of you is to simply not take the exam until you feel prepared to do so. I’ve been taking one exam per test window and that has worked for me. I’m in no rush to finish the exam right now so I have had the luxury of spending as much time as I felt necessary reviewing and mastering the material and then going in on exam day ready to knock it out of the park. It’s a balancing act though. You don’t want to take it too early and not be ready but you also don’t want to wait so long that you start to memorize answers or forget stuff. I feel that I could have taken BEC about 2 weeks earlier but there were simply no available seats at my Prometrics site so I took the first slot that worked for my schedule.
With all that said, REG really scares me since I’ve had the least exposure to Tax than any other subject on the CPA exam (other than Government / NFP accounting on FAR which I had, exactly, zero experience with prior to Becker).
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