[Anonymous]

I am spending a lot of time on MCQ’s? For the cost accounting MCQ’s, which many of them in Becker involved doing computations, I am spending about 5 Minutes per MCQ to understand the answer and write it down, I have 97 total MCQ’s in this section, which means this will take me about 8 hours to get thru, does that sound normal, or better yet, does that sound like it will be time well spent? I am on track to finish section one one Sunday, which is right on track for my study plan, but I haven’t even looked at my Ninja notes or Becker flashcards yet, nor the Sim.

Any insight would be great, thanks.

[Anonymous]

That sounds about right, although some of the questions won't be calculations so you'll make up some time in those. I remember spending so much time in Chapter 1 through 3 I thought I'd never get through all the material, then I flew through Chapter 4-6. And yes, it's time well spent, working through those long calculations will help you understand the concepts much better. Now, if it will be on your exam is a whole other story!!!

[Anonymous]

@Eliz

Thank you for responding, I was hoping someone would give me some insight on this post, I appreciate it. How do you feel you did on your BEC exam?

[Anonymous]

I knew Becker by the time I took it, but I'm not holding out hope on a passing score. I had a lot of questions out of left field, but I guess that's how it goes…

Once you get through the material once it all seems to get much easier and smaller and makes more sense the second time through. I did all the questions at least twice, and it didn't take me nearly as long the second time.

Good luck studying!

[kambsa]

I am experiencing the same thing! It took me forever to go through Ch1 & 2 with all the calcs especially in ch1 with the joint cost allocations, equivalent unit calcs (FIFO/weighted average), etc. I just finished watching Ch3 lecture last night.

AUD - Passed 88
REG - Passed 87
BEC - Passed 78
FAR - Passed 75

[MIA2CPA]

Don't feel discouraged, CPAWannabe. I am also studying for BEC right now and was very frustrated with B1,B2, and B3 on the first go. Similarly to you, it took me about 9 hours to complete B3. In hindsight, it seems like it was time well spent because the extra time I took to really understand the mechanics of the problem have seemed to help in subsequent attempts.

I also re-read the book and reviewed relevant flashcards between first and subsequent attempts.

Hope this helps.

BEC - 84
AUD - 83
FAR - 82
REG - 81

I'm DONE! CERTIFIED PARTY ANIMAL!

[Whyme]

If you still arent doing well on the questions the second time around, I would suggest picking up a college cost accounting book, they do a great job explaining the concepts in a different way that may help you understand. Just a suggestion!

Good Luck!

AUD- 71, 73, 87 Done!!!!!
BEC- 75
FAR- 72, 77
REG- 77

[msgolds]

To be honest, I came into the BEC exam expecting to do a lot more calcuations than I actually had to do. I was given much more concept questions.

BEC - 90 PASSED
FAR - 84 PASSED
AUD - 93 PASSED
REG - 84 PASSED

I DID IT!!!!

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"If we were put here to carry a great weight, then the very things we hate are here to build those muscles."

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