[Matthias]

I took FAR at the end of May and then REG earlier this month and I’m scheduled to take BEC the first weekend of August. My FAR and REG scores won’t be available until August of course and, to be honest, I felt very unprepared for both and am not too confident in how I did. There’s a slight chance I skated by FAR but it’s VERY slim. I’m unsure if I should start studying for Audit after taking BEC regardless of how I did on FAR or I should start preparing for my FAR retake. I don’t want to loose momentum but I just can’t help to think that getting a bad FAR result will push my morale down and affect my Audit studies. Worst case studying for Audit is I get a bad FAR score and just switch back to FAR for the retake and loose only a few weeks of study time. I’m a firm believer that preparing for failure only sets you up to fail, so I’m trying to think and hope for the best with both tests.

[Holly]

You take BEC the first weekend in August, then get your FAR score three weeks later or so. If it were me, I'd personally wait those weeks to see how I did on FAR before I went on to auditing unless you're not working etc and you think you could get through the material very quickly. Auditing has so much less material than the two you've been studying and you could potentially be ready to test in August. I didn't do fabulous on AUD but – I hate it, I studied between Thanksgiving and Christmas, my mom had knee replacement surgery and moved in, there was my baby, my husband works away half the month. It can be done.

BEC - 79
REG - 85
AUD - 5/27/16

[Matthias]

Thanks @Holly! Yeah, I think I figured out the approach I'm going to take. I'm planning to push back BEC maybe another week or more to the 13th, 14th or maybe the 15th (Can we be sure the scores will be released EXACTLY on the 15th??) giving myself more than enough time to over prepare, and then start preparing depending on what the results are. Best case scenario is that I can have plenty of time to study and go for the win on Audit before the Q4 window is up. My wife is also due towards the end of December/early January [with our first], so my goal is to knock this exam all out before the due date!

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