@rbcpa
FAR was my first test and it took me 4 1/2 months to study… the first two months not seriously at all, and then I bit the bullet and studied like I never studied before. Then as test day approached, I rescheduled because I knew I wasn't ready.
I was pretty confident coming out, thinking… it's going to be close… and real talk it was… a 69 and I knew the 5 MCQs and the 3 SIMS that caused my downfall.
But as I started studying again (giving myself 10 more weeks which put me studying seriously for 5 months but in reality 7 months. It totally dawned on me what I needed to do:
I started thinking of the exam as just another exam on another day. All in all it was as if the first time I studied was just another day at the books. I was already putting in 5-6 hours on Saturdays, and I thought to myself… well that first test was just a Saturday, and I got out after 4 hours!
And then I started thinking about those questions I missed and the Sims I bombed and I realized that I needed to pin point the areas I was weak on the first time. I took my schedule out, completely erased it, and started with the areas I knew I sucked on. And I moved as SLOWLY as possible. Making sure I knew every mcq, made sure to read the wrong answers, answer in my head why it was wrong and then clicked the answer I had gone over 5 billion times and reiterate why it was right. And as I moved on to other topics I started doing MCQs from the topics prior, allocating out 30 – 1 hour of old material. lecture, mcqs, talk to myself, repeat. You'll get it dude.
FAR 69, 83
AUD 85
BEC 80
REG 82
FINISHED
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