[Anonymous]

Has anyone finished a test and just started laughing during the last few seconds of it?

That’s what I did. Not a crazy lunatic laugh but just a chuckle of sorts. The sims really had their way with me. I feel violated.

If I don’t pass (and it will take a miracle for me to pass) I think I’m cashing in my chips and stepping away from the table.

Now excuse me while I go watch tv. 🙂

[pinkpink114]

I'm in the same boat. FAR is my last exam and I got a 74 last testing window.

I re-took it today. I had so many calculation MCQ that I was really short on time going into the SIMS.

The SIMS were so poorly worded that I had no idea what in the world was going on.

I only felt good about one SIM and that is because I had the exact same SIM on my last test.

At the end of the test I just felt incredibly annoyed.

I've come to realize that I don't want to continue to work in accounting. I took the exam because I had already paid for it.

If I don't pass, I'm not retaking it.

[rezaking]

wish you could transfer the 3 youve passed to me. haha.

BEC - Passed
REG - 7/21/2012
AUD - 8/18/2012
FAR - 11/10/2012

[ImpossibleIsNothing]

Cosmo and pink, I retook FAR today too, and it was rough so we are all in the same boat (not sure how great that is considering we all barely missed it last time). The exam itself seemed much harder than last time as many of the MCQs seemed to be more out of left field than last time. Sims were LONG! By the time I got to the Sims, I had 45 minutes left (poor time management on my part), and the last two Sims I just clicked on journal entry boxes in hopes of getting some points on those.

The only positive out of this exam was that I thought the MCQs got harder in the second testlet, and then either stayed hard or got back to moderate level on the third testlet so hoping that carries me through (along with the curve if there is one since AICPA claims there isn't). Since almost everyone on this board who has taken FAR this window has thought it was tough, hoping we squeeze in that 75! Looking forward to first week of Feb, and until then, not thinking about this one bit. Good luck to you guys!

BEC 7/2010 - 77 (5 days of studying, thought CPA was a joke; expires 2/19/2012 :/)
AUD 8/2010, 11/2010 - 74,80 (2-3 weeks of studying, still thought CPA would happen)
REG 7/2011 - 59 (3 weeks of studying, started doubting myself), 11/29/2011 80 (rebuilding confidence, one more to go!)
FAR 8/2011, 10/2011 - 49(4 days of studying, just went and took it), 73 (one month of studying, will never underestimate this exam), 76!

Donezo. Impossible is nothing.

[ImpossibleIsNothing]

Also, I was really thinking if studying more would've helped, and I really don't think it would've made too much of a difference.That's what makes it that much more annoying, feeling helpless. Especially when people are like didn't you know your stuff. It wasn't necessarily that I didn't know my stuff (except for like 4-5 questions), but the exam was just longgg and at least 20 out of 30 questions each testlet required more thinking/additional steps/some sort of trickery than the Becker MCQs…just venting

BEC 7/2010 - 77 (5 days of studying, thought CPA was a joke; expires 2/19/2012 :/)
AUD 8/2010, 11/2010 - 74,80 (2-3 weeks of studying, still thought CPA would happen)
REG 7/2011 - 59 (3 weeks of studying, started doubting myself), 11/29/2011 80 (rebuilding confidence, one more to go!)
FAR 8/2011, 10/2011 - 49(4 days of studying, just went and took it), 73 (one month of studying, will never underestimate this exam), 76!

Donezo. Impossible is nothing.

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