[msgaillard03]

Reading the thread that was revived from a year ago, many people confirmed that the Ohio loophole does indeed work. I just tried it and my FAR exam was grayed out. Does anyone beg to differ????? Any experiences with this? I am located in Florida.

FAR-8/28/11

[AccountingNerd8]

I'm in Florida and finished the exams back in March. Here's my take on the Ohio Loophole:

Until 2011, the AICPA would send the scores to NASBA, who would then take 24-48 hours to post the score. Once the AICPA sent the scores to NASBA, we could try to register in another state for the section we took. If it let us register, we failed. I used the loophole for 3 of my exams, some of my husband's and friend's exams, and it worked every single time. Basically, it just let us know if we passed or failed 24-48 hours before the scores were offically posted.

At the beginning of this year, they changed the scoring process. Now when the AICPA sends the scores to NASBA, they are posted right away, eliminating the 24-48 hour window where we could use the Ohio Loophole. So that is why the Ohio Loophole DOES NOT WORK ANYMORE. I'm 99.9999999% sure. When my friend took BEC at the beginning of the year, he tried to the Ohio Loophole the day before his score was posted, and it let him register for it, but he ended up passing.

I'm anxiously awaiting my husband's FAR score today…So just to see what would happen, I tried to register him in Ohio. The screen popped up with his info for him to register, which previously would mean that he failed. But since the AICPA has not released the grades to NASBA, the Ohio Loophole means nothing.

That's just my 2 cents. I spent almost two years taking the exam in Florida and finally finished at the beginning of the year. Now I get to watch my husband go through the same excruciating process. Will I ever be able to get away from this horrible exam????

BEC- PASS
REG- PASS
AUD- PASS
FAR- PASS

[msgaillard03]

Well it ask me for some information as well but once I entered all of the information I saw the screen where the FAR section was grayed out. Did you go that far into it? As far as seeing if the section was grayed out or not? Let me know.

FAR-8/28/11

[AccountingNerd8]

I went back and filled in the info…..FAR was grayed out..but so was BEC, which he's taking next month. So, they must do that for any section you have a NTS for. 🙁

BEC- PASS
REG- PASS
AUD- PASS
FAR- PASS

[Joe36y]

So i have to fill in all that work experience and whatever. and get to where i can pick my exams? and I did this but BEC or FAR are not greyed out? and i passed BEC? Guess this does not work anymore

BEC: 82
FAR: 79
AUD: 85
REG: July 10th

[AccountingNerd8]

Joe36y, yes, you have to fill in all the work experience stuff (I just put “Unknown” for everything). But like I said earlier, I'm 99.99999% sure the Loophole doesn't work anymore. Nasba put on their facebook page this morning that FAR should be released early this week. I bet it will be released in the next 5 hours.. I don't think they've ever released a section and then not released another section the next business day. So something's gotta be released today…and it better be FAR.

BEC- PASS
REG- PASS
AUD- PASS
FAR- PASS

[Lady in red]

Ohio loophole never worked for me and I do not think it works in general. I tried it every testing window this year. I am in a NASBA state. It is possible that this worked awhile back when there was a 24-48 hours between release of score to NASBA and posting, but now things are happening in the same day so it does not work anymore.

It's funny how people bring this up every testing window. People are stressed enough about waiting and this makes it worse.

It will be grayed out as long as you have not received your score and as long as you have an active NTS, even if you have not sat for the exam yet.

Even if you received a failing score it will be still grayed out for 24-48 hours after. In this 24-48 hours you cannot re-apply for a new NTS to retake the exam.

MA candidate

AUD Passed (78) expires 1/31/2013
REG Passed (78) expires 4/30/2013
BEC Passed (75) was 39 weeks pregnant:))
FAR 67,73, 1/27/2013

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