QQ – Thanks for the response.
I think that I need to reassess the way that I have been studying. This is the most that I've ever studied for anything, and I do wish that I had the practical background in some of these things to back me up a little. I've got a BA in Economics from UF (Go Gators), MBA from Univ. of Miami (in Finance, not Acct) and I did well enough on my GMAT to become a Kaplan instructor (did that for about a year part time in grad school). Now I'm turning 25, have been working at a gov't agency for the past two years and felt that I needed to up my game by getting my CPA. Somehow, I've managed to get by cramming for tests and not really having to dedicate that much effort into studying.
Soo basically its been a task for me to learn how I study best. I'm looking forward to assessing my strengths/weaknesses based on the score report. I think I definitely made a mistake by not taking the time to research the TBS during the exam. I did flag all the MCQ, go back and then do another pass through. I've found in my experience in life (and def. with the Becker MCQs) that my first “instinct answer” is usually the correct one.
I had an hour left when I completed the test, but was way too scared that I would make mistakes by overanalyzing/changing the simulations. I think that was the right way to go with the mult choice, but I definitely should have looked at the Simulations a little bit longer.
I would love to drop audit until August – I can definitely do that.
My concern is the lag time to register for REG (I'm going to call the DC coordinator tomorrow to see what the processing timeframe is). If I change my AUD test date to end of August, and then I can't even get a testing time for REG in the last week of July, then that means that I wouldn't be able to take REG until October!
I think my game plan is to move forward with AUD, unless I can get an NTS for REG within the next week.
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