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Hello All,

Its been quite some time since I have been active on this site. I attempted Auditing as my first part and failed miserably. I went through a state of depression before realizing that it essentially was my fault. Now I’m on attack mode and I find myself studying more now than ever, as I don’t want to relive that feeling of failure. I work 35-40 hours a week which consist mainly of nights and weekends, so that means during the day I’m open to study, study, and study some more. With work being my only obligation, I plan to take all four parts by the end of the year. Is this manageable? Im using Yaegar CPA Review and studying for BEC as we speak. Talk to me guys. Thanks

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I've only taken two tests so my experience is limited (failed REG, passed BEC), but IMO I think that is manageable depending on the effort you put in and finding what study method works for you so you can study efficiently.

Not sure if you're looking for BEC advice, but this is my 2c….

For BEC I focused less on trying to memorize note cards/watching videos and instead focused more on actually practicing and applying information via non-stop MC questions (thank you ninja approach). While you need to know the formulas, very few questions if any on the exam will ask you to recite a formula, so just memorizing is not enough. Also, instead of making note cards for the formulas, I made a master list that contained the names of all the formulas from the Yeager handout and any others that I came across and then another list on a separate piece of paper that actually contained the formula. To test myself I would look at the sheet that had the names and try to re-write the formula and then grade myself by comparing to the answer sheet. Not sure if this will be better for you, but after failing REG I concluded that I suck at memorizing note cards.

Also, I stopped watching the lectures from the first few chapters as Cindy mainly reads from the text (I don't fault her for that, there is not much a person can add when talking about RAM , CPU's, and all the other stuff you never wanted to learn about). However, she does an excellent job of explaining stuff in the later chapters ie PV, EUP's, variances etc.

The summarized summary…practice, practice, practice and also search past posts on this site as I was able to get some clues as far as what might be more heavily tested, but everyone gets a different test so you never know…

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