@moniker just found out yesterday i got an 89 on REG! so thats good news. the bad news is that i left FAR as my last exam. that will be after tax season- which is ramping up and getting quite hectic.
well as to make my post atleast somehow useful to all you other thread members, see below.
my advice for BEC is to spend 45 min “studying for” WC tops! OTOH, i would really really really focus on COSO and the COBIT framework. i also wouldn't spend 5 hours studying all the ins and outs and obscure terminology of IT. the risk/reward just isn't there between time spent studying and the odds of the lone question (probably pretest) that you will likely not even get on the topic lol.
people, with as many diverse subjects of BEC (cost variance and foreign currency swaps and Audit Committee communication…really?) the goal here is to not shoot for a 99. why shoot for a 99 and burnout and take up valuable memory space when you can guarantee yourself an 85 with the fundamentals? (some of the detailed obscure questions that people post on A71 really fascinate me…when i encounter one like that in my review i hit instaskip. there is an equal chance of me narrowing it down to 2 on test day and guessing it or wasting time digging through my brain and probably still getting it wrong cuz i forgot some weird detail) equal chance of me correctly answering that whether i study or not. why study an obscure ass topic for hours on end if it will only guarantee you 2 “hard” points tops. utilize the time wisely, invest in understanding the economics and the various problems they can throw at you, the COSO, the variance, the “giant” underlying themes that unify the diverse BEC topics. be gentle to your brain! it hates useless obscure info.
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