[Yolonge]

With my new job and 4 exams in 3 months, It has been exhausting. Keep your motivation up!

Initially I just wanted to take all of them at least, failing or passing.

I barely knew anything when I started, but forum has been very helpful and that helped me a lot. I hope I can do the same for other people as well.

I mainly used ninja mcq + supplemented with Wiley CPAExcel (cheap book everyone knows about)

I go straight to mcq without reading, because my times are limited and I hate reading. figured if I am aiming for 75 I truly do not need to know everything.

I did not want to buy a review course. Granted it would been easier with review course but I did not think I needed one and wanted to save some $.

In all, I have 2 down on my belt now. FAR and BEC

FAR – Studied for 1.5-2 months (was overseas for 3 weeks and was not that motivated..). Probably put inefficient mid- 100 hour. Pretty much spent time doing on doing mcq.. not much for sim/JE. Testing: It was not easy, but I was pretty sure I passed it. And I did.

AUD – Studied for 1 month putting about 60-70 hours. When I took the exam I felt kind of felt I did little worse in FAR thinking that I did okay on mcq but poorly on sim. It actually turned out to be the opposite; comparable on sim, but weaker on mcq. I still think I should have passed this one.. restudying at the moment.

REG – Studied for 1 month putting about 60 hours. I was exhausted at that time and also was out for 1 week for work travel. I know I was not ready and I was confident that I failed it, with great margin (at least in the 60s). Surprisingly, I got 70 with strong on business law which I would never suspected lol. I accept my defeat in comparable mcq weaker sim. I did not study for sim because I was running out of time.

BEC – Studied for 2 weeks putting about 30-35 hours after REG feeling destroyed. Content was jokingly easy but ninja mcq was hard (my old posting was complaining about why I am keep getting bad scores lol). MCQ stat: 1105 questions, 69% average, trending 88%. This was one exam that I was 100% sure I passed without any doubt, and that made me worry because exam was so easy and maybe I was thinking I studied wrong. I did get 87 and stronger on everything except finance (okay I did 6 ninja mcq on finance … I will take comparable lol)

2 down to go… 2 retake. It was a rough but challenging journey. I have audit retake in May and I will probably reschedule REG for June window hopefully.

Good luck with studies and salute for everybody in the process.

Materials: Wiley book + Ninja MCQ

FAR - 83 (Jan 2016)
Study time: 6 weeks
BEC - 87 (April 2016)
Study time: 2 weeks
AUD - 92 (July 2016), (74 Feb 2016), (72 May 2016)
Study time: 4 (Feb) + 2 (May) + 3 (July) = 9 weeks total
REG - (70 April 2016)
Study time: 3 weeks

[perezc3910]

Wow. I wish that I could say the same about BEC. I just started studying last week and it has taken me about 5 days just to go through the first chapter in Becker. Lectures are 4 hours long and the homework takes about another 4 hours (if you do it carefully). I put in maybe 15 hours so far and it has been killer because I am always so busy at work the first week of the month.

BEC-July 2016
REG-August 2016
FAR-October 2016
AUD-Nov/Dec 2016

[Sang]

Congratulations on passing FAR and BEC!

When you say 100 hours for FAR, 60-70 hours for AUD, 60 hours for REG, and 30-35 hours for BEC,
are you spending 100% of your time doing MCQs only?

FAR: (05/24/16) | (07/15/16) | (10/22/16)
AUD: (09/07/16) | (11/29/16) |
BEC: TBD
REG: TBD
Using Roger CPA Review + Ninja (MCQs, Notes, Audio)

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