[Anonymous]

My plan right now is to go through my text and write down every formula I see (possibly note-card style) and any ones that show up in MCQs that weren’t for whatever reason covered in the text. My only reservation here is trying to study so many formulas, so I’m curious if there’s any that are safe to skip. Or any other suggestions here.

[Anonymous]

Nothing is safe to skip per se.

Every test I took had at least one question that I never saw coming.

[Anonymous]

I, literally, just got home from taking BEC.

Do not skip any formula. None.

[Sarah1421]

Angelwatch – your comment kinda freaks me out. I'm taking my test tomorrow, but I can't say I know every formula like the back of my hand. I'm familiar with them, but I couldn't ramble most off to you without relying on the question fact pattern.

Were the questions written in a way that helped you? Sometimes I feel like Becker tries to throw you off track…

Maybe this is too specific of a question? I'm really just looking for a general level of difficulty. Any thoughts on how it went today would be great…

FAR - 90
AUD - 91
BEC - 86
REG - 87

[Anonymous]

My exam was very calculation heavy. There were a lot of formulas. I would say it was around 40% calculations which was a lot more than I expected. For reference, I'm also almost positive I went Medium, Hard, Hard. So the calculations on Testlet 1 were pretty easy and straightforward but Testlet 2 and 3 were much more complicated.

Cost Accounting and Finance. In both cases they told you, exactly, what they wanted but there was distracting information. Testlet 2 and 3 had more “wordy” questions with more useless information and more obscure calculations.

On my whole exam, I had to, flat out, guess on 3 questions. All 3 were finance related.

With all of that being said, if you can do well in Becker, you should be OK. Becker is notorious for being wordy, vague and including a lot of extra information. So if you can do well on Becker, you should be prepared.

Not to scare you since it's getting to be the point of too late to do anything about it, but anything in Becker is fair game. Same with NINJA if you supplemented with it. Like I said, I guessed on 3 finance style formulas and all 3 were pretty obscure (and I'm just praying that those were some pretest questions but we'll see).

[Sarah1421]

I appreciate the insight. In some ways, I'd rather have a calculation heavy exam…. however, I have the tendency to waste time if I don't know the answer.

It sounds like you were happy with how Becker prepared you. Am I right? I've read other posts saying there were topics not covered by Becker… not that I can do anything about that now!

This exam is a little strange – I don't feel confident, but I can't quite pinpoint my weaknesses either. I've been testing in the high 80s/low 90s on most everything… but I'm also worried I've started to memorize questions. I think that's why I'm on this forum right now. lol

FAR - 90
AUD - 91
BEC - 86
REG - 87

[Anonymous]

Based on your other scores, you should do fine.

Personally I'm glad I supplemented Becker with NINJA MCQ. I think everything on my exam was covered in Becker but NINJA forced me to learn some of the more obscure stuff. Becker does a very good job of giving you a really solid foundation.

[Anonymous]

@aspiring How many parts have you taken? The analysis ratios are important to FAR, AUD, and BEC, and it's important in all three parts to know the impact of changes in account balances on the results of those formulas. You will be using them in those three parts for sure.

[Anonymous]

BEC is the most random exam of the four. By a long shot.

[thechapman]

Be familiar with them but you can only allocate so much of your time to that before it starts to be counterproductive. You won't use all of them so it's a crapshoot anyway

Passed - 2014

[kleon52]

In short,

Study, yes do it.

Memorizing, don't do that.

I never memorized the formulas for BEC (ie make a list of them and read them over and over), you'll learn/remember them by doing the MCQ. Any MCQ in your study program is fair game

I used ninja, I'd say the real exam is very similar to ninja MCQ

REG: 80
AUD: 82
BEC: 83
FAR: 83
Finished Feb 2015, 5-6months

Ninja MCQ for AUD, BEC, & FAR

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