[Anonymous]

I took BEC yesterday. It was my first CPA exam. I have been reviewing and practicing questions for months. I really thought I would be able to manage the majority of the questions. I knew my weak areas and tried to work on them leading up to the exam. Funny enough hardly any of my weak areas showed up! Yet there were some totally random questions that I looked at and went like I have never seen that in any of my readings.

Now I have audit tomorrow and I feel so drained.

[major1330]

No worries you can do this! IMO, I have always felt drained after my tests and thought they were difficult and then score very well on them. Go to the gym, go for a run, watch tv, just do something to relax for a few hours and then look over some AUD notes. I always feel better a day or two after my exams and begin to think that I did alright. Try to get some relaxation and move on to the next one.

BEC: 5/30/12 - 92
FAR: 7/2/12 - 93
AUD: 7/23/12 - 94
REG: 8/13/12 - 88

[ZRowe24]

I just took BEC as well and I would say that is probably not the best section to take first. Since it seems the questions are far more random and don't align 100% with study materials, I would recommend to anyone to take another section first. I really don't understand the 53% passing rate for BEC last quarter. I guess the fact there are no SIMS really helps passing rates.

FAR- 83
AUD- 90
BEC- 85
REG- 87

[futuremdcpa]

… I felt the same.. People said BEC was the easiest.. I don't know what they where smoking.. I've passed REG, and honestly, I'd rather study REG everyday for a year, then BEC for 6 months. REG's tax is easy, and business law (which I hated in school) I thought Peter Olinto did a GREAT job explaining it. I didn't even read the law section, just read the tax portion.

BEC.. Well now.. I love ECON, IT (Im a computer person so it was easy for me), Finance.. HATE COSO/Cost.. and wouldn't ya know.. my exam was a ton of COSO mixed with IT(which was not covered well in Becker)… I think Becker did a great job with everything BUT COSO/IT (per the questions on the exam).

I wanted to break my computer screen while taking BEC.. all I could think about during the exam was how its gonna suck that I will most likely have to re-take this beast of an exam again, and study all over again for it. The writing wasn't hard, and I didn't really practice for it. I spent an hour and 15 minutes on the writing.. I wanted to be done with MCQs. I honestly guessed on every question it felt like. I would of rather had all computational questions, at least that way I'd know if I was right/wrong since I would see the number there.. With the theory questions (which was 95% of my exam), I could always immediately eliminate 2 answers, and I'd always be 50/50 on the two others. I just hope I choose the right answer…

I will find out in a week or so 🙁

Good luck on any other exams you have to take.

REG: PASS || BEC: PASS || AUD: PASS || F: SCORE PENDING..

[mla1169]

That may actually be a GOOD thing. For many of us (though not all), feeling “good” about a test ends in a score below 75 and feeling devastated about it ends up with a passing score.

I would have bet my home on the fact that I failed AUD the third time I took it. Good thing I didn't!

FAR- 77
AUD -49, 71, 84
REG -56,75!
BEC -75

Massachusetts CPA (non reporting) since 3/12.

[ZRowe24]

Future- Yes I did the same thing. You could pretty much narrow down every question to 2 answers but then I had to guess. It felt like a constant educated guess. Really frustrating.

FAR- 83
AUD- 90
BEC- 85
REG- 87

[futuremdcpa]

@ZRowe24 – It sucked so bad. I spent too much time on cost, and not enough on everything else. I have no idea why Becker thought of putting 200(or so?) MCQ's with detailed long friggin cost calculations and variances. All im gonna say is it was less then 10% of my exam, but took me 2.5 weeks to study.

REG: PASS || BEC: PASS || AUD: PASS || F: SCORE PENDING..

[Anonymous]

Thanks for sharing your experiences. I really hope that I pass because I dread having to review that information another time.

[Anonymous]

@futuremd I spent a lot of time preparing for cost as well…i really thought i would have seen more questions in the area….now that i look back on it…i am wondering if i even got a difficult multiple choice testlet because i figured the difficult testlets would have lots of calculations…and i spent a whole lot of time on the multiple choice and only had 30 minutes to do the written component.

[holmea52]

@futuremdcpa and ZRowe24, it sounds like you two had a VERY similar BEC experience to mine and I ended up with an 87. I literally guessed on probably almost half of the exam and had maybe 2 computational questions–so don't count yourselves out!! I also don't understand why people call this the easiest exam, especially because most of the people I know who say that didn't score exceptionally well on it.

@dc0307, for starters, I think it's safe to say (in my experience at least) I felt like complete crap walking out of the test center after each exam. After one of them I literally wandered for 6 blocks, sulked in an Argo Tea for about an hour, finally called my parents and told them how stupid I was, then went home and cried and watched a sad movie. Horrible. Lol. I think I stayed in bed the rest of the weekend. That being said, I have passed 3 so far after having felt that way walking out.

I know this is one of those things that we all hate to hear, but it'll be okay! The way these things are scored literally makes no sense.

Best of luck to all of you in the next score release!!!

F - PASSED (11/26/11)
A - PASSED (1/14/12)
B - PASSED (7/14/12)
R - PASSED (8/31/12)
Ethics Exam - 95 %

Just waiting to be able to put those three little letters behind my name...

[Anonymous]

@holmea52 thanks for sharing! I cried too, felt like a complete mess! I really hope I pass!!!!

[Whatdidyou]

BEC has the highest pass rate. If I remember right, the test results sheet (in one of the other threads a month or two ago) for 1st (or 2nd?) qtr test takers showed that 55% of 1st time takers of BEC passed. Which was higher than all the other sections.

It's easy to think you did bad on all of the exams IMO. Just wait for your score, you probably did better than you think and hopefully passed.

I imagine pass rates (and therefore your chances) also improve if you'd factor in things you are doing RIGHT compared to other people – as some of the fails are attributed to poor study skills or expiring notice to schedules or busy work schedules..etc

REG - Passed!!
BEC - Passed
FAR - Passed
AUD - Passed

Study Materials: Becker basic course

[Hitemup27]

I have never left the test center thinking “I NAILED THAT SUCKER!”. I always leave thinking “Let's just see what happens.”

…if that is any encouragement.

A - 93 - 10/25/2011
R - 92 - 1/17/2012
B - 91 - 5/31/2012
F - 93 - 10/1/2012
E - 90 - 11/17/2012

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