[Anonymous]

Anyone else here feel alot of “fat” can be trimmed from their materials without sacrificing much in the way of points? I’m all for “covering your bases” but I feel like you could potentially condense 1/3 of the book down and the cost vs benefit would literally be negligable. To me, the more crap you throw in you throw in just to see if “it sticks” is just more brain power I have to use and the potential to forgot something important because I tried to remember something unlikely to be tested.

I’m not looking for cliff notes, just trim up the fat / redundancy a little….

Thoughts??? Obviously their the “experts” but that’s just my opinion.

[jeff]

Best wishes to you tomorrow when scores come out.

Jeff Elliott, CPA (KS) | Another71 | NINJA CPA | NINJA CMA | NINJA CPE

[Anonymous]

Thank you sir. Might have to wait till Thursday (CA) though.

[Minimorty]

I haaaaate writing notes. I much prefer to highlight. There is good highlighting and bad highlighting though.

Good highlighting – You are consciously reading, understanding, and highlighting the key concepts. You should review these highlighted passages more than once.

Bad highlighting – Highlighting just because you are told to. Never looking at it again and assuming you know it because you highlighted it.

[Anonymous]

There is also highlighting + underlining…

[Anonymous]

I think it all depends on what you get on the exam. I've took FAR in 2007, Aug'11, and Feb'12, each time covered a different portion of material from Becker. The MCQ's can be very unexpected depending on the luck of the draw. If you're talking 12 hours a section to do Becker MCQ's, just start printing them out, read the question, and if you can't get the answer without looking at multiple choice, don't waste time on it. Take the time to read the reasons for each answer being write and wrong and I think you'll get more out of it if you aren't getting it on the first try.

[Author]

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