[jjm1181]

For me it’s reading the actual question sentence first to figure out what it’s asking and then reading from the beginning.

What other good tips and tricks are there? Anything regarding timing of MCQs? Best ways to eliminate choices?

B 79
A 75
R 78
F 85

[Zaiitz3]

I'm just going to follow your posts. Haven't taken any tests so far, but for the MCQ that I've been going through, I've been pin pointing key words. For Auditing, these are “review”, “issuer”, “NOT” and the like. It's easier for me to not get caught up in the wordiness of some of these questions.

*New York*
AUD 74, 88! 04/02/12
BEC 75! 08/30/12
FAR 68, 73, 83! 10/27/12
REG 80! 11/24/12

DONE!!!

"Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.” - Wayne Dyer

[hopefulcpa28]

Studying for audit, and completely agree with @Zaiitz3. For me, audit is difficult…answer that is wrong for one question could be right for another based on compilation, review, etc. Pin pointing to a specific word makes a huge difference and eliminates at least two choices!!

[makinthemagic]

knowing that you can't know everything and knowing enough of everything to get through mcq, especially of a beast like FAR

Bec 4/11/11 91
Aud 7/11/11 75
Reg 8/31/11 80
Far 5/24/11 86
Ethics - 98
California Licensed CPA
Illinois Registered CPA

[tnyfn20]

Read the entire question. I know this sounds dumb but I don't know how many times I have gotten a question because I didn't read it or read through it to quickly.

AUD- 78
BEC 79
FAR 78
REG 77

[jomarie]

I totally agree with tnyfn20. I've done that millions of times. Reading to quickly or not all the way through.

Started sitting in May 2002, on and off. But since 2008 I've been nonstop and my scores are....
AUD - 39, 48, 56, 65, 68, 73, 76!!! (Finally passed in Oct 2011!!!) Becker, NINJA, & Wiley
REG - 75 (Lost Credit) 72, 68, 73, 75 (Passed again in Aug 2011) Becker, NINJA, & Wiley
FAR - 65, 68, 75 (Lost Credit) 68, 73, 73, 80 (Passed again in May 2012) Roger, NINJA, & Wiley
BEC - 65, 68, 71, 72, 72, 71, 76 (Lost Credit)- 70, 76!!!! I AM DONE!!! - Roger, NINJA, & Wiley
After 10 long years of studying, I AM DONE!!!! Finally a Licensed CPA in the State of New York!!

[jjm1181]

Does anyone skip hard/long questions and move through the shorter/easier ones first? For instance on BEC, I skipped all the calcualtion questions and worked the theory questions first. Is that a sound strategy on the SIMS for FAR? Work the codification and simpler SIMS first and then work the ones that are harder last? Or does it even matter?

B 79
A 75
R 78
F 85

[jelly]

Good night's sleep (not super easy), get to the test center early with your NTS and ID, don't dress too warmly. And yes, read the questions carefully, twice to be sure. You can spend a lot of time marking and flipping back and forth re-reading stuff, so keep that in mind.

Couldn't pass again!

[misanthrope87]

Not spending too much time on mcqs.

B 2/12 87
A 11/11 90
R 8/11 86
F 5/12 88

[Anonymous]

Once I get seated by the Prometric staffer, I take a couple of minutes(not too much time though) to write down as fast as I can as many mnemonics and formulas that I can. This is BEFORE I enter the launch code and time starts ticking. Two or three minutes max. If the staffer is watching the time two, three, four minutes aren't going to stand out.

AUD- 62, 78

BEC- 68, 66, 71

REG- 55 retake 11/19

[sacredtheory]

Booze…lots of booze

BEC: Passed
AUD: Passed
REG: Passed
FAR: Passed

Jared

[Zaiitz3]

Jared, if I could *like* your status, I would.

And @candothis, that's a really good idea!

*New York*
AUD 74, 88! 04/02/12
BEC 75! 08/30/12
FAR 68, 73, 83! 10/27/12
REG 80! 11/24/12

DONE!!!

"Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.” - Wayne Dyer

[Anonymous]

For Audit especially… anticipate the answer before reading any of the stems. Then read the two that are close any pick the one that you anticipated (assuming it's there of course, lol).

[makinthemagic]

read the last line of the question first. there are a lot of questions where there is a lot of extraneous info that you can waste your time reading.

Bec 4/11/11 91
Aud 7/11/11 75
Reg 8/31/11 80
Far 5/24/11 86
Ethics - 98
California Licensed CPA
Illinois Registered CPA

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