[slinger1317]

Hello, this is my first post on the forum, and I am having some difficulty trying to long-range plan my tests.

I am currently studying for FAR, which will be my first section of the Exam. I am scheduled to take the test on August 24 and receive my score around September 10. I would like to pass that one before moving on to the next section. I got my NTS for FAR & AUD and it expires in 9 months.

My question is this: how do you hedge your studying while waiting for results? If I pass FAR, I would like to move on to AUD, but if I don’t pass FAR, then I will reschedule until I pass, but that is valuable time I could either be studying for a retake, or moving on to AUD. If I pass FAR the first time, then I would like to devote a solid 6-8 weeks to AUD, which would put me taking the test in mid-late November, and then If I don’t pass AUD, then I would have to wait until January to retake.

Just wondering how others have handled the limbo period and if you ever started studying for another section before getting scores and then having to go back and restudy the first section. I would like to do it station by station, just seeing what other methods have worked.

Thanks!

[Anonymous]

I have always started studying for my next exam. I have always taken my exams on Friday or Saturday, so I give myself the rest of the weekend off, then start the next section Monday.

Thankfully the only exam I had to take a second time was FAR. I was 2 weeks into my AUD study plan when I found out I failed. Since I was only 2 weeks in, I stopped AUD and went back to FAR.

You seem to have similar timing as my exam combo. If I were you, I would start studying for AUD after taking FAR. If you pass – then you're already working on AUD. If you fail FAR, and want to go back to it, then you've only put about 2 weeks into AUD, so IMO going back to FAR wouldn't be that bad. It's not like you would have a month of AUD done, then get your FAR score.

Two weeks is a decent amount of time when you're studying for the exam. I personally don't think it's a great idea to just skip 2 weeks in case you failed an exam.

[tomq04]

I have the unfortunate displeasure of not receiving my scores until December after finishing my last 5 required school credits. I will have taken 3 exams by then, so I am just chugging along until the date when I get to view my REG/FAR/AUD all at once.

In my case I have no choice but to keep going, but that being said, even come December I will keep studying for BEC regardless of the outcomes of the other tests.

REG- (1) 76
FAR- (2) 64, (5)74, (7)83 (Over achiever!)
AUD- (3) 70, (4) 75
BEC- (6) 75

[tomq04]

accidental double post 🙂

REG- (1) 76
FAR- (2) 64, (5)74, (7)83 (Over achiever!)
AUD- (3) 70, (4) 75
BEC- (6) 75

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