Hey @CPAsweetness,
I can't tell you how you will study best, since it varies from person to person, but what I can tell you is how I studied and hope that you can draw some good tidbits from that. 🙂 BEC is the shortest Wiley book, but BEC has the most varied material, so it's an odd one to wrap your mind around all at once.
My study method was always to read the book first. On my first read-through, I wouldn't do any problems, just simply read. If I remember right, BEC was about 15-20 hours of reading time. After that, I would start working in Wiley Test Bank. I'm assuming that you've chosen not to purchase the test bank, and that's fine…but to replicate the experience, I would suggest doing one problem out of each chapter, and checking the answer immediately after – so first practice-problem-run, I'd do #1 in each chapter, and after doing #1 in Chapter 1, I'd check the answer, understand why I got it right or wrong, and then proceed to #1 in Chapter 2, rinse and repeat till I'd gotten through all the chapters. In WTB, I always did practice problem sets that pulled from all topics and provided the answers immediately afterward, so I think this is likely a good replication of that with the book. If you did that till you had gotten through all the problems in the book, I think you'd find that everything was fitting together much better! For me, the content always seemed overwhelming until I started doing problems.
If after a few problem-sets, you decide that, say, Chapter 3 is a weak area, I'd suggest going back and re-reading that chapter to try to cement your weak areas. If there's a topic that is unclear, don't be afraid to Google! Investopedia has solved a few problems for me. 😉
Overall, I think the best study-tip I can give you is to read the whole thing before you start worrying about understanding it. I know that seems weird, but getting the “big picture” helps to make the details make sense.
The other thing that helped me quite a bit for BEC was NINJA Audio. If you were going to buy one resource for this exam, I'd recommend WTB before NINJA Audio, but I do feel like the Audio was quite useful for this one. I didn't feel like I benefitted from it as much for the other exams (AUD, FAR, and REG), but it helped to create a mental “map” of the information in BEC. I think this benefit could be duplicated by taking outline-style notes from the chapters – like aim for 2 pages max of notes per chapter to get a birds-eye view of the material, then read or re-write those notes to help get the birds-eye in your mind, just to create some structure and organization to help your mind out.
Hope this helps! 🙂
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