[Anonymous]

To my fellow Becker students: if all the material in the book was already highlighted and underlined, would you bother watching the lectures still? Currently without a DVD and based on some strategies discussed on this very website, I’m thinking that I should copy all the highlights and underlines into note format and skip watching the lectures. Thoughts?

[The GaJone]

It all depends on your personal preference. Myself, I have to watch the lectures or it just doesn't work for me. However, when I watch the lectures I do not highlight, underline, or take notes; I try to focus on what they're actually saying and let as much info soak in as possible. But that just happens to be what works best for me.

FAR: 81 (1/20) AUD: 88 (2/27) REG: 91 (4/19) BEC: 75 (5/20)

[75 CPA]

I do not call reading from a Power Pont teaching. I also do not study from the Becker book. I use the Becker book as a reference book when I am doing the multiple choice questions from Becker.

[Anonymous]

I've found the lectures to be useful and not useful depending on the subject matter. For REG the examples Tim gives really helped. In the ethics/independence/professional responsibility the lecture didn't really provide more than what I would have gotten just reading it.

[Shawna]

I found the lectures to be very useful….

FAR- 70, 76 REG - 91 BEC - 80 AUD - 74, 85

GA - NASBA state

[Guccimane]

one teacher I had was terrible; I had to pass on him b/c he mumbled ever so softly when he spoke…….moron!

83 Reg, 76 BEC, 94 Aud, 79 Far

Done ......!

[Halfwaythere]

The lectures that accompany Becker are tedious and irritating at some points, but I would say that since you paid for them and have them at your disposal, you should watch them each once. There were at least a handfuls of times during the three exams that I have taken that I remembered one of the cheesy examples that Peter or Tim gave in the lecture. Granted, I'm usually a little disgusted that I remember them, but a point is a point and in the end if watching the lectures means I can get through this crazy exam by taking each part only once, I will glady sacrifice the 4-8 hours each weekend to owatch them.

REG-95 BEC-93 FAR-90 AUD-99

[zena]

I think the reason they give cheesy examples is precisely to make it easier to remember them. Personally I don't care how cheesy or boring the lectures are (I had to play my favorite up beat songs a lot as breaks during the AUD lectures to keep from falling asleep) as long as I get a passing score. I'm with you there Halfwaythere, I'll put up with it if I have to do it only once.

FAR 86 | BEC 94 | AUD 90 | REG 85
All done! used Becker

[AARON]

It's personal preference. I would wach the lectures, however, I have found that if re-write the notes in some way, I absorb more than if I watch the lectures.

? AUD - 87 (8/12/09)
? REG - 77 (1/15/10
? BEC - 77 (1/6/09 - Expired) / 79 (11/18/10)
? FAR - 75 (2/11/11)

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