[TCav12579]

I am getting ready to take my first section (AUD) sometime in the first couple weeks of January. I am studying with strictly Becker as it was provided to me. I have completed all of the lectures and am currently taking progress tests to plug through the MCQ. With that being said, I am looking for some insight on the Becker program:

I seem to be getting a lot of the same questions for the progress tests, is there any way to stop this from happening? Or is this done on purpose to drill in the most commonly tested concepts?

I have set up a spreadsheet to track my progress. I am averaging about an 85+- for each respective module, is this a solid score? Should it be higher as these are progress tests and not mock exams?

Are there better ways to study/drill the concepts available through Becker?

Thanks for any insight you may have!

AUD - 99

BEC - 6/8/18

FAR - 5/12/18

REG - 86

[SchruteBeet]

I am not sure why you'd be getting the same questions again. If you've chosen to have your progress test feed you questions from all the chapters, I'd expect to see more variety. How many questions have you been doing per set? I think 85 is a pretty good score and you'll get a better picture of where you stand once you do the practice exams. I personally found the Becker flashcards very helpful. Esp because BEC has so many formulas to remember, it helped to create my own flashcards and add them to the Becker stack and shuffle them during my review.

AUD - 79
BEC - 80
FAR - 83
REG - 78

Ethics - 97

"If it were easy, everyone would do it."

"Hard work, perseverance, faith, blessings."

[livealittle]

if you are using Becker, don't neglect to practice the sims in addition to the MCQ.

BEC - 8/8/16
REG - 66, 77
AUD - 81
FAR - 9/8/16

[TCav12579]

I have been doing 30 questions with 3 different sections (the correct name is escaping me currently but for example A1, A2, A3). Should I be doing something more like 30 questions from all of the sections to make it more realistic like a testlet from the exam would be?

AUD - 99

BEC - 6/8/18

FAR - 5/12/18

REG - 86

[SchruteBeet]

Yes, exactly. I would recommend a progress test will all the chapters.

AUD - 79
BEC - 80
FAR - 83
REG - 78

Ethics - 97

"If it were easy, everyone would do it."

"Hard work, perseverance, faith, blessings."

[lizardh7]

Hi! I was wondering the same thing. I have been doing a progress test after every chapter completed for AUD over the chapters I have completed. I think this is beneficial and the progress tests do more for me than the homework. For the exams I passed, I was trending in the 80s on 100 problems of all the chapters in the becker book.

BEC - 67, 80(lost), 70, 79
FAR - 62, 71, 67, 70, 70, 73, 79
AUD - 66, 77
REG - 69, 76
Ethics -95, Licensed in ID

[MattLorenz]

When I was studying, I would do the lecture, skills practice, and then MC in a row, or maybe the next lecture and then go back to the previous MC. I would skip the sims until my final review for the exam. I would take a progress test every week or so while learning the material to kind of keep stuff fresh, only about 20 questions until I got to my final review.

For my final review, I would re-skim every chapter and mark pages that had important info I might want to glance at once more before the exam. After each chapter, I would do the sims for that chapter. Once I got done with reviewing all of the chapters and completing all of the sims, then I would take the first mock exam. I would also track the percentage I was getting correct on the sims to gauge my understanding of that chapter. After my first mock exam, I would thoroughly review the whole exam and then hammer progress tests until I was ready to take my 2nd mock exam. I usually took my first mock about 6 days out, and the 2nd mock about 3-4 days out. Don't forget to do the AICPA released questions, and the mini mock exam the AICPA puts out.

In terms of the progress tests, I would come across the same questions due to the number of tests I was taking. By exam day, I usually had taken about 20-25 progress tests. I would do a progress test for each individual chapter, probably 15-20 questions, then transition to doing two chapters in one test, but still about 15-20 questions. Overall, I tried to get at least 8 questions for each chapter into a progress test, so if it was 3 chapters, I would do 24 questions. After my 2nd mock exam, I would only take progress tests with the exact amount of questions you'd see in a module on the actual exam to get my mind ready for what to expect, and I would do two back to back to imitate the exam.

For AUD specifically, I was also averaging 85-90% on the progress tests and seeing the same questions multiple times, but I honestly thought the MC on the AUD exam was a breeze, and it wasn't as inconclusive as Becker's questions were. I had time to finish the module and do a thorough review of each question for all of the AUD multiple choice. This wasn't the case with any of the other exams, I would only have time for a quick skim review of each question.

REG: 87

FAR: 85

AUD: 85

BEC: 89

[lizardh7]

Thanks MattLorenz! That was extremely helpful.

BEC - 67, 80(lost), 70, 79
FAR - 62, 71, 67, 70, 70, 73, 79
AUD - 66, 77
REG - 69, 76
Ethics -95, Licensed in ID

[emichelle2321]

I stopped doing the progress tests with Becker because I kept getting repeat questions. Honestly, you need to just go into each module and do questions over and over until you feel like you really have the concept down, and if you are getting them wrong you get the benefit of seeing the explanation as you go. I realized i was wasting time on the progress tests because i would have to click back through after it was over to get the explanation for ones answered wrong and then have to re-work the question in my head to make sure I understood why it was wrong.

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

Done!!!!!

[Go.For.Broke]

@TCav12579 I believe that when I was doing Becker progress tests, I'd sometimes see a same question come up more than once, but it wasn't a trend. Maybe it's a glitch of some sort. Either way, I loved the progress tests. They weren't my only litmus test, but they were a quick way to really see how I was grasping the material. I got to a point where I was memorizing answers, but I wouldn't let myself select the answer before “showing” my work (i.e. working through it in my head or on paper to get to the appropriate answer, then answering).

I, like you, kept track via spreadsheet of how I was scoring, and I specifically would go back and focus on the areas in which I'd been scoring poorly (as in: if I'm trending high in all chapters but 4 and 6, I'd go hit 4 and 6 hard).

You're doing well; you've got this!

AUD - 77
BEC - 75
FAR - 78
REG - 77

Finished.  Praise be to the Almighty!

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