BEC Study Group Q2 2016 - Page 7

Viewing 15 replies - 91 through 105 (of 1,014 total)
1 2 3 … 6 7 8 … 66 67 68
  • Author
    Replies
  • April 1, 2016 at 12:58 pm #766119
    mtaylo24
    Participant

    Good lord, how did you get through the entire Test Bank in 8 days? I'm on like day 30 and only on ch. 11. lol

    AUD - 1st - 60 (12/12), 61 (2/13), 61 (8/13), 78! (11/15)
    REG - 55 (2/16) 69 (5/16) Retake(8/16)
    BEC - 71(5/16) Retake (9/16)
    FAR - (8/16)

    April 1, 2016 at 4:03 pm #766120
    lonestar
    Participant

    Just done with my BEC exam an hour and a half ago. Got heavily tested on COSO. Encountered much fewer calculations than in practice. The experience was terrible. Not that it's really not that difficult but a lot of conceptual questions! It seemed to test mechanic memories. I aimed high but from my experience it will fall through. I might still pass but definitely not at a good score.

    April 1, 2016 at 4:03 pm #766121
    lonestar
    Participant

    Just done with my BEC exam an hour and a half ago. Got heavily tested on COSO. Encountered much fewer calculations than in practice. The experience was terrible. Not that it's really not that difficult but a lot of conceptual questions! It seemed to test mechanic memories. I aimed high but from my experience it will fall through. I might still pass but definitely not at a good score.

    April 1, 2016 at 4:40 pm #766122
    MaLoTu
    Participant

    @lonestar – BEC can go either way. Sometimes people feel like they did great and failed and vice versa. Good luck and we will see what happens. I am sitting on the 8th.

    April 1, 2016 at 4:44 pm #766123
    Pony Boy
    Participant

    I am sitting tomorrow morning. Did my Becker practice tests yesterday and saw that there were way more conceptual questions (ei: COSO, COBIT/IT, etc…) rather than ratios and formula computations. I did not do the WC parts, but instead just listened to the 40 minute lecture on that section. I will update everyone on how my experience with the exam goes tomorrow morning.

    Cheers, Pony Boy

    REG (02/2016)- PASS
    BEC (04/2016)- PASS
    FAR (06/2016)- PASS
    AUD (08/2016)-

    "Stay Gold, PonyBoy, Stay Gold"

    April 1, 2016 at 5:18 pm #766124
    lonestar
    Participant

    Good luck, Pony Boy!

    April 1, 2016 at 5:20 pm #766125
    lonestar
    Participant

    Oh By the way, the score release will 4 days earlier on May 5th, instead of May 9th.

    April 1, 2016 at 6:15 pm #766126
    RWCPA
    Participant

    I am taking the exam tomorrow as well. Just going through notes and maybe a few MCQS later this evening to keep my mind fresh. I plan to listen to the Ninja Audio on my drive to the center tomorrow. I'm not sure any more than that will help at this point. Ill post exam experience tomorrow, good luck to everyone testing.

    April 1, 2016 at 8:37 pm #766127
    happygal
    Participant

    @ MaLoTu, thanks a lot, the way you broke it down made it easier for me to connect it to my notes.

    April 1, 2016 at 9:42 pm #766128
    Joe C.
    Participant

    Lonestar how long did it take you to finish? I have been completing ninja practice exams with 1-1.5 hrs left.

    Good luck to all of you! I am taking this monster Thursday.

    BEC 75
    AUD 9/6
    REG TBD
    FAR TBD

    WI Candidate

    April 1, 2016 at 11:19 pm #766129
    Anonymous
    Inactive

    After 1800 questions in a week and redo of several hundred of the one's I have marked today – I am toasty!!!!

    The hard part is not being lazy about actually doing them.

    I make a lot of stupid, not conceptual, mistakes on calculation questions.

    I hope all this time on MCQ's doesn't backfire on me.

    I hate that you're mastery of one area in BEC doesn't help that much with the others.

    April 1, 2016 at 11:33 pm #766130
    MaLoTu
    Participant

    @CPA2021… I totally get what you are saying about doing the questions. Some of them are so long you just mentally check out. None of the questions on the exam will be as long as a majority of the test material though.

    April 1, 2016 at 11:35 pm #766131
    Anonymous
    Inactive

    “Good lord, how did you get through the entire Test Bank in 8 days? I'm on like day 30 and only on ch. 11. lol

    Because I'm nuts. What a way to spend my vacation. I started in late January, but wasn't really as diligent as I should have been. It's the easiest section (so I heard) and I breezed through the Wiley bank pretty much. Then I decided To tackle the Gleim test bank and that was a rude awakening to say the least. I hate cost accounting, just got out my transcript and I hated it in college to.

    Now a bit worried that all that time on formulas and calculations may not benefit me. That's what's tough, hard to know where to focus.

    There's a lot of stuff out there on COSO. I just took audit and had a lot of the mnemonics down pat but it sound like it may be worth learning the 17 principals. Looks like IS. EAR AIM isn't going to be sufficient.

    April 1, 2016 at 11:48 pm #766132
    Anonymous
    Inactive

    Hi MaLo. I made a strategic decision to not spend time doing the long calc questions anymore – I just get them wrong anyway. I'll have to be very careful on exam day about not shooting myself in the foot with keying errors on the damn calculator.

    I wonder how bad the conceptual questions are. They can be pretty nasty at the advanced level.

    April 1, 2016 at 11:51 pm #766133
    MaLoTu
    Participant

    @CPA2021 – a the test center ask for a calculator … I hate using the computer one. They will give you a hand held calculator.

  • Author
    Replies
Viewing 15 replies - 91 through 105 (of 1,014 total)
1 2 3 … 6 7 8 … 66 67 68
  • The topic ‘BEC Study Group Q2 2016 - Page 7’ is closed to new replies.