[Anonymous]

…are the difficulties in Becker representative of the difficulties of the various questions you would get in a certain 30-MCQ testlet on the actual exam?

There’s no indication as to the difficulty of each MCQ question in Becker, so I can’t be sure whether or not to give myself a pat on the back when I get an answer correctly. Sure, I can guess, but I can’t be sure.

[Anonymous]

For FAR, I think the actual exam questions are easier then the Becker questions. I scored around 75% – 85% when I was doing Becker and I was able to pass 🙂 so if you get the Becker questions down you should be good to go. And don't let the practice exam scares you, I scored 70 and 65% on the 2 practice exams that Becker provides.

[Anonymous]

that's SO relieving to hear! i hope you're right about this

[See Pee A]

The actual exams are much easier than Becker homework. Of course some questions can be difficult, but they are trying to test on a lot more information. There are some homework questions that are just absurd, and they also go into a lot of details that are unlikely to come up on the exam. The hope is that once you get to the exam you will have seen all the aspects of a topic and will be able to come up with answers much more quickly on exam day.

BEC 86 (08/30/11)
FAR 84 (10/13/11)
REG 88 (11/08/11)
AUD 86 (11/29/11)

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[Anonymous]

well what you guys said brought me a lot of relief..until i opened the aicpa sample questions from becker's website. maybe i was tired from studying 4-5 hours at work, but the questions seemed a tad more difficult than the questions i encountered in becker.

1 question in particular combined 2 separate concepts involving the relationship between inflationary periods/FIFO and asked how it would decrease inventory turnover. so you'd have to know the relationship between FIFO/COGS/EI in periods of increasing prices, as well as knowing that inventory turnover = COGS/average inventory.

i mean, if i had 10 hours to take FAR, this problem won't be difficult, but with 90 MC's with a time constraint of about 1min30secs for each MCQ, i could see myself easily taking at least 5 minutes to get this problem right.

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