[William_777]

Hello Candidates and CPA’s,

I am going to delve into the Becker Sims for Regs today, but I’m having trouble trying to draw a bead on what to do.

My Prof, who wrote large portions of the PassMaster software, says “there’s no way to teach a simulation.” I’m not sure what he meant, but, if there’s no way to teach a Simulation, then they’re also saying there’s no way to learn how to do a simulation. I think they meant there’s so many possible tasks they could assign that there’s no way to predict what they might ask.

Anyway, I was looking at the Becker Sims for Regs, and they really arent so bad. The Tax Chapters have a lot more to them than the Law Chapters, but – in any chapter – it’s only 1-2 hours of work (I thought it was twice that).

So now I am sitting here looking at software and my printout, and I am ready to embark on the simulations.

I’m going to try to just run the questions as Becker presents them, but the software doesn’t check or grade results.

Is there any way someone could recommend for me to get a handle on how to do them – I mean, beyond just answering and checking to see if I got them right, which is about all the software/printouts seem to let one do? What should I focus on?

Thanks,

wm

[momto5]

Well really, that's about all you can do. Work through them to see if you know what you are doing and learn from the parts you got wrong or didn't understand. The Final Practice Exams do grade you on SIMS, so that will be more like the test. Most times, the real SIMS are not as easy as what you see in Becker, or they are longer, etc. Rather than practicing content, you are practicing applying your knowledge and using the research literature.

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