@broadstreet: I think 4000 MCQ's is way too much. Unless you are studying an hour or two per day, there is no reason you should stretch out your studying over 2-3 months. You have to reinvent the wheel too many times, which creates a lot of inefficiency overall. Also, if you redo MCQ's too much, you are definitely memorizing answers (even subconsciously). I personally, can go through a section and get 75% on a 100 question section, and then on those last 25 questions get a 100% when I redo them to get a completion. If you are doing 4,000 MCQ's, and averaging 30 seconds per question, you are definitely memorizing. You would be better served by maybe cutting your MCQ's by up to half, and spend the remaining time reviewing notes.
I personally studied about 2.5 weeks, 4-6 hours per day. About 85 hours total and passed BEC with 86. In that time I went through the MCQ's once (including reworking the ones I got wrong), and then spent time going over my notes and reworking areas that were difficult (for me, this was variances and cost accounting, as well as several brief reviews of IT stuff–simple memorization). Not only is reworking problems too many times ineffective, but a huge waste of time. It would be much better spent by focusing on trouble areas (even doing those MCQ's) as well as reading notes. Just my thoughts, take it or leave it. Good luck!
BEC 86 (08/30/11)
FAR 84 (10/13/11)
REG 88 (11/08/11)
AUD 86 (11/29/11)
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