@kickass
I'm on my last year of school, so many of the concepts still stick around, which allows me to go over material that I'm familiar with fairly quickly. That being said, I studied for FAR about 7 weeks, and 2 weeks for REG (my school track is taxation).
I used Becker almost exclusively. For REG, I did use Ninja notes just for review purposes.
A few tips I feel might help:
– Read the chapters thoroughly before watching the lecture videos. Make your own notes (maybe in a different color)
– Do as many questions as you can. It takes a lot of time, but well worth it
– If some concepts are extremely complicated, such as retail inventory method for FAR, all kinds of phase-out/credit for Reg, just skip those. Don't waste too much on them, and it doesn't hurt you much since you probably only get one question on the exam.
– I do have last few days before exam exclusively reserved for review. Read through all my notes, redo all the marked questions, etc.
FAR (4/14/14) - 97
REG (11/17/14) - 94
BEC (11/30/14) - 92
AUD (2/28/15) - 99
TEARS!
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