[Anonymous]

Well some of you may remember my posts in previous months talking about lack of motivation and feelings of being overwhelmed and such. I took FAR on 2/27 but leading up to it I just got lazy and did not even study for the two weeks leading up to it so I completely just flushed my money down the toilet. My problem is I just feel completely overwhelmed by FAR and find that it is just an extreme amount of material to try to take in. I feel like as soon as I get a few sections ahead I can not even remember 4-5 sections ago.

While I have not received my 2/27 FAR score as of yet, I am pretty confident that it will not be a 75+.

I really would just like some motivation and I am wondering if it would be wise or completely stupid to try and pass BEC or AUD rather than trying to study for FAR again right now. I have looked through both the AUD and BEC material and find it to be much easier to digest and fresh on my mind since I actually just had an AUD class a few months ago. (One would think that FAR would be fresh, but I need you all to understand that I basically did not study worth a crap for FAR.)

[fuzyfro89]

Tough to answer. Maybe a change of pace would be helpful so you can forget about your frustrations with FAR? In that case, maybe it would be good for you emotionally to put your efforts into BEC and take that first, and then restart FAR afterwards.

I personally find it tough to be focused to restart something I just found out I failed, or am expecting to fail.

As far as motivation… you'll need to find that on your own. Not trying to be mean at all, but it really is internal. There is only so much anyone else can do for you. Fact is, as you admitted, you did not prepare for FAR, so you don't have a right to be upset about not passing.

I would work on getting motivation, whatever personal experience or life changing experience that may take, and then start another section.

[fuzyfro89]

Tough to answer. Maybe a change of pace would be helpful so you can forget about your frustrations with FAR? In that case, maybe it would be good for you emotionally to put your efforts into BEC and take that first, and then restart FAR afterwards.

I personally find it tough to be focused to restart something I just found out I failed, or am expecting to fail.

As far as motivation… you'll need to find that on your own. Not trying to be mean at all, but it really is internal. There is only so much anyone else can do for you. Fact is, as you admitted, you did not prepare for FAR, so you don't have a right to be upset about not passing.

I would work on getting motivation, whatever personal experience or life changing experience that may take, and then start another section.

[fuzyfro89]

Forgot to mention, I took the tests in the order BEC, FAR, REG, and AUD. Some people say take the hardest first and get it out of the way. I sort of went in a more random pattern (easy, hard, hard, easy) and it worked well for me.

Passing a relatively easy BEC gave me the confidence that I could do FAR (knowing it would be harder but doable).

Passing FAR, a real back breaker, gave me the confidence to tackle REG, similar level of difficulty.

Once I passed REG, I knew I just had to put up with the boring and tedious assertions and regulations in AUD and I would be done!

I suppose passing anything though will help you. Question is, do you like to tackle small things first and then big, or the other way around? It's a personal choice.

[fuzyfro89]

Forgot to mention, I took the tests in the order BEC, FAR, REG, and AUD. Some people say take the hardest first and get it out of the way. I sort of went in a more random pattern (easy, hard, hard, easy) and it worked well for me.

Passing a relatively easy BEC gave me the confidence that I could do FAR (knowing it would be harder but doable).

Passing FAR, a real back breaker, gave me the confidence to tackle REG, similar level of difficulty.

Once I passed REG, I knew I just had to put up with the boring and tedious assertions and regulations in AUD and I would be done!

I suppose passing anything though will help you. Question is, do you like to tackle small things first and then big, or the other way around? It's a personal choice.

[Anonymous]

I agree with you about the no right to be upset thing. Just received my score, I got a 50. I'm not even mad other than just being mad at myself that I just wasted $200+ because of my laziness and apathy. Truth is I've just had some big life changes here recently that have made focusing a little tough and combining that with a general hatred of FAR just made for a bad combo. I really think I'm going to try to attack an “easier” beast to really pep myself up because really looking at the CPA from just the FAR standpoint is really demoralizing.

[Anonymous]

I agree with you about the no right to be upset thing. Just received my score, I got a 50. I'm not even mad other than just being mad at myself that I just wasted $200+ because of my laziness and apathy. Truth is I've just had some big life changes here recently that have made focusing a little tough and combining that with a general hatred of FAR just made for a bad combo. I really think I'm going to try to attack an “easier” beast to really pep myself up because really looking at the CPA from just the FAR standpoint is really demoralizing.

[Anonymous]

To your second question I generally like to work my way up. When I entered college I didn't jump in and take all the hardest courses first I saved them all for the last semester because that puts me in more of a “do or die” type scenario and doesn't let me procrastinate. When I do hard stuff first I generally procrastinate and get lazy because I know if I fail I'm not setting myself back too far versus if I'm taking FAR last and know I HAVE to work my ass off and pass otherwise earlier sections will roll off.

Procrastination is a terrible thing 🙁

[Anonymous]

To your second question I generally like to work my way up. When I entered college I didn't jump in and take all the hardest courses first I saved them all for the last semester because that puts me in more of a “do or die” type scenario and doesn't let me procrastinate. When I do hard stuff first I generally procrastinate and get lazy because I know if I fail I'm not setting myself back too far versus if I'm taking FAR last and know I HAVE to work my ass off and pass otherwise earlier sections will roll off.

Procrastination is a terrible thing 🙁

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