@NewPRcpa that's entirely too long to study for AUD. You forget what you studied in the beginning. Even working full-time you should try to cover more material in a shorter span of time. If working full time, study for all sections except FAR shouldn't exceed 8-10 weeks. You should be putting in 2-3 hours each weekday and 6-7 hours each weekend day. FAR I'd say is so much material it might take 12-14 if working full-time. And you should be sure to review what you studied in the beginning. If you're not working, 6-7 weeks for FAR and 4-5 weeks for everything else. I studied for REG from mid December 2018 until February 2019 and I was working full-time, and I probably could have cut it a little shorter than I did. I studied for BEC from mid April to the beginning of June, working some of that time. Then I took the summer off and I did FAR in 6.5 weeks (it was torture I'll admit!) and AUD in 5 weeks (I took a week off in the middle to go see my dad out-of-state).
I really think that this is a mistake a lot of people make, and it causes them to drag out this exam process for years. There's no sense in it. Either do it or don't do it, but don't play around studying months for a single section. You're likely wasting your time and it's probably not going to work out for you. You CAN do it. If you managed to make it through enough credit hours to have the board approve you to sit the exam in the first place, you are capable of it. You have to decide that you want to sacrifice a short time of your life to have NO LIFE so that you can get through this. If you have a family, they're going to have to sacrifice with you, or you won't get through it. If you play around at it, you'll be here in ten years and still not done. And as Larry the Cable Guy says, “Get ‘er done!”
AUD - 85
BEC - 92
FAR - 84
REG - 88
I've found an anomaly in the Space-Time Continuum. NASBA and the AICPA are in the 19th century. They use slide rules to
score the exam, and then they send the
scores by Pony Express to the State Boards. That's why it takes so long for them to do a
score release.
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