@happy, thanks! Today I'm not coughing as much but my throat is still a lil' sore. I am sooooo very glad I wasn't sick like this while taking any of the exams or I would have probably also busted out w/shingles due to stress.
@Island, congrats!!! I predict you will be doing the happy dance for the next several days and as you should 🙂
@Wheres, yeah it's tough failing your first exam and it really does a number on your confidence about the exam. I think that fear is telling you to go back and try AUD first because that's the material you are most comfortable with, but I think the rational side of you knows that FAR would probably be your best route. Go to page 5 & 6 of the Wiley text for AUD 2011, and pay attention to #2 and #6. Hopefully you have the Wiley text. You are going to feel like you have a good grasp on the material one day and feel like you don't know a dang thing the next…that will mess w/your confidence in yourself to pass this thing, but we ALL experience this feeling multiple days if not every day that we study for these exams. As for FAR, I can honestly tell you that I learned more about Financial Accounting and Reporting (including how to do J/Es) while studying for the exam than I did in college (accounting was my major) so don't let that affect your self-confidence either. My university sent out an evaluation of our accounting program back in the fall and I told them that they should start teaching stuff out of the Wiley books and follow the CSO for the CPA exam as it would be the most beneficial to the students. Anyway, you got this! And I think if you bombed AUD as bad as you said, I think it's def in your best interest to move on to the next section so that you can then go back to AUD w/a fresh set of eyes. Whichever you decide, have confidence and take the attitude of ‘fake it until you make it' in an effort to psyche that inner voice saying ‘you can't' into thinking I can.
One last thing, everyone is expected to fail their first exam…I even told myself to think of the exam as a ‘practice' in an effort to calm my nerves and once I sat down all nerves were gone and I simply thought of it as a practice exam, no pressure. After taking and surviving your first exam, you know what to expect at the testing center, the exam format etc. and so next time won't be so nervewracking hopefully. I must admit that the most nervous or the only time I've been nervous when taking any of these exams was BEC because that was my first exam to take after learning I failed AUD. Talk about a confidence crusher. Be aware of that and don't let it cripple you like it kinda did me in the first 10 min. of the BEC exam.
Congrats to everyone else who is receiving passing REG and AUD scores today!!! Woohoo!!
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