[whitesoxfancpa]

Just my two cents here:

I’ve been using Becker and I do all the questions at least four times, usually more, including the supplemental questions.

Occasionally I see that people say they skipped the supplemental questions in their studying. I think this is a really terrible mistake. They call them “supplemental” but that’s misleading. In my opinion, they are every bit as important as the regular homework questions. There are things covered in there that the regular questions do not cover. Some of them are important areas, some aren’t. The bottom line is that we really have no idea which areas the exam will test us on, so do all the questions! I think Becker should call them “Required additional questions” or something. Either that or just put them in the regular homework questions in whatever category they’d best fit in the chapter.

DO THE SUPPLEMENTAL QUESTIONS!!!

 

 

AUD 96 FAR 95 REG 94 BEC 88

[futurecpa1986]

thanks for the advice, i skipped out on those supplemental questions last time.. i wont make the same mistake twice!

FAR: Passed
BEC: Passed
AUD: Passed
REG: August 2011

[potatogun]

In all the lectures they do mention that you should do them. But I agree I guess they need to be renamed. People studying should really use all the material a program tells them do until they've fully tried it and found it does not work for them as intended.

FAR 92 - AUD 91 - REG 94 - BEC 86

[herbert7890]

I did the supplemental questions once (some Twice) for FAR and it worked nice for me. I'm doing the same for BEC now.

FAR 88 - BEC 86 - AUD 90 - REG 85

[Anonymous]

with scores like yours this is great advice Thanks!

[Florida_Candidate]

I ALWAYS do supplemental questions. I replace the word ‘supplemental' in my head with “miscellaneous” because they are kinda miscellaneous but super important 😀

FAR-91 (7/29)
AUD-99 (8/23)
BEC-90 (10/1)
REG-99 (11/3)

[michelle119]

Ya I usually try and do the supplemental at least once through, kinda skipped them on audit to do cpareviewforfree.com… but still definitely a good thing to do to drive home those miscellaneous things….

FAR 7/2 - 88
BEC 7/30 - 87
AUD 8/27 - 80
REG 11/12 - 96

[whitesoxfancpa]

Florida_Candidate, that's perfect. Miscellaneous questions. That's what they are, and it's also a good way to review the entire chapter in one go.

AUD 96 FAR 95 REG 94 BEC 88

[limey]

Awesome scores whitesox! Yes, do as many questions as you can, as many times as you can.

I really can't pass again!

[Anonymous]

I worked the supplemental questions. I agree that they are important and shouldn't be skipped.

[StudyInRI]

Supplemental questions ARE important and critical to your passing the CPA exam — I agree.

What I find is MOST helpful, for me anyways, is to do all the regular questions and skip the supplemental until a class or two later. Then go back and try to do some of the supplemental questions, as a lot of them are different than what you went over. Ideally you want to do well on it, but it's similar to taking a second type of “practice exam”.

REG - 97
BEC - 82
FAR - 86
AUD - 96 ... DONE!

[Anonymous]

I did all miscellaneous questions for all of the parts I've taken to date; I usually waited to do the supplemental questions until I had a good grip on the class questions, but I made sure to review the supplemental questions at least 3 times.

[Anonymous]

Also an important point is that when you are doing the homework, often the answers to the questions are obvious depending on the homework session. Doing the supplementary questions helps, at least a little to fix this. For example, if you were doing a homework on attestation engagements, its a given that each question that asks what standards you should use the answer is going to be attestation standards, not SSARS or anything else. Those are mindless questions. But, when you do the supplemental questions, you have to read the question and determine what type of engagement it is: review, attestation, audit, etc, then choose the standards to use.

[south0085]

whitesoxfancpa – this is gonna sound crazy but I look at your posts a lot. The reason is that you passed all parts with very high scores. I want to learn as much from you as possible. Anyways, I read in one of your posts that you did the questions 4 times usually. I, too, am doing them many times. However, didn't you ever feel like you were memorizing the questions? How did you compensate for this? Thank you.

[Anonymous]

I have a problem with memorizing the questions so I have the Wiley book and use cpareviewforfree as they have differently worded questions, same topic, but gives me more of a complete picture of what might be asked.

[whitesoxfancpa]

South0085,

I did start memorizing the answers, but that's OK. There are two advantages:

1. You may get a question on the exam asking the same thing, and you may answer it right just because you've seen the question asked so many times.

2. It's a good study method due to the repetition. Each time you go through them, don't just click the answer when you see it. Go through the theory in your head or work the answer on paper. Get to the answer the same way you would if it was the first time you're seeing it. I didn't like diluted EPS very much, but working the questions so many times, I couldn't help but learn it. It got to the point where I'd do a different practice problem and I'd say, “Oh, the numerator here is like the $1,000 from that one question, and the $1,000 represented interest (or whatever it is). So the interest must be the numerator.” Do you see what I'm saying? Even if you don't understand it, you could sometimes come to an answer.

But the important thing is be able to go through the steps to compute the answer. Do it with each question even if you instantly know which answer choice is correct.

Good luck, you'll do great.

AUD 96 FAR 95 REG 94 BEC 88

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