[LTcpa2b]

I’ve taken BEC twice (62, 67) and have been using Becker. I need to hurry up and pass this part so I don’t have to see this exam again! I just scheduled it on Jan 3rd, hopefully giving me ample time to get through all 5 chapters. Any pointers?

[zena]

What does the report say your weaker areas are?

FAR 86 | BEC 94 | AUD 90 | REG 85
All done! used Becker

[LTcpa2b]

Cost accounting and economics….I struggled with variances and now that I'm starting to study again, I'm beginning to understand it a bit better. The other sections I did comparable or was only 2 or 3 points off the mark.

[zena]

I took BEC on 11/21 and I thought the cost accounting questions were much simpler than what Becker has, so if you can do the Becker ones, even if it takes you more than a minute and a half, but really understand how it works, you should be fine. Luckily, Becker has almost 200 supplemental questions for cost accounting. I didn't get to all of them but it helps for extra practice. For economics, I tried to make little connections in my mind. For instance I write the chain reactions when say, discount rate is decreased, that in turn causes interest rates to drop, which causes borrowing to increase, which causes spending to increase, which causes aggregate demand to increase which causes GDP to increase which causes prices to increase and so on. I write all of these situation in short notation like this: DR (down arrow) IR (down arrow) borrow (up arrow) spending (up arrow) AD (up arrow) GDP (up arrow) P (up arrow). After doing this for all situations described, patterns start to emerge. For instance, I noticed that AD, GDP and P always follow the same direction. Also I tried to remember the relationship between the demand curve and the MR curve for the different market structures (pure competition, monopoly, etc). I seemed to get these questions wrong because I would always guess.

I wish you luck, LTcpa2b and I'm crossing my fingers for a passing grade in a couple of weeks 🙂

FAR 86 | BEC 94 | AUD 90 | REG 85
All done! used Becker

[faf1978]

I also failed BEC (got 70) and used Becker 2008. I did the HW studies 3 times and was getting in the 80s and had even 76 on final exam 1 (fiest try). I felt that the 1st testlet of the exam's questions were in different format than Becker's questions. Not sure if I should buy the Wiley questions or other providers.

[Jaywalk]

Yes, rework the multiple choice questions as many times as you can until you have as close to a perfect score as time permits. Read the pages in the book and rewatch those sections that gave you the most trouble and also create note cards/flash cards with the basic concepts you still need to memorize. Take these cards with you everywhere and look at them whenever you have free time. Go to the Becker website and download the latest updates for the BEC section. Look at your note cards on the way to the exam, then take and pass the BEC exam.

BEC 78

AUD 84

REG ??

FAR in 2010

BEC 78 - 11/27/2008 | AUD 84 - 08/10/2009
REG 82 - 11/23/2009 | FAR 84 - 01/19/2010
-| Passed all sections |-

[Anonymous]

I found cpareviewforfree.com questions quite challenging… maybe doing them will help to master some topics.

[Anonymous]

yes cpareviewforfree is good to do on work breaks and other moments when you want to spice it up and challenge yourself to some home made questions…..I found his questions to be great…..I just hope I pass so I do not need them

[Author]

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