This was a while ago now (april and may) and I've since studied for REG, but i believe i went through initially and did the videos, mcqs, and skills practices chapter by chapter, then in my final two weeks, i did all of the sims in the first week so they would be fresher in my head by test day and my normal review the 2nd week. Normal review is as many mcqs as you can possibly stand, and particularly focusing on the areas you do poorly on on the mock exams. Then the evening before the test and morning of, I simply skim the entire book page by page (maybe 20 mins a chapter max). More than once i've had something catch my eye doing that and then got a question on that exact thing on the test that i definitely wouldn't have remembered.
i recall doing a ton of mcqs to prep for this, I bought access to SuperFast CPA and used that as it allows you to randomize mcqs which becker annoyingly won't except in the progress tests, which then wont let you see the answer immediately. I found just doing mcqs and seeing the answers right away to be how i learned best. The videos are kinda meh for actual understanding unless you really have no clue about the topic, then i find they can be helpful. otherwise just trial by fire and dive right into the mcqs. Don't be scared of more sims, they aren't any harder than on the old test, just more of them. keep in mind during those you have access to the authoritative literature. In theory, if you have enough time you can look up how to do every single sim in that. In practice, you dont have enough time, but i remember looking up how to do two of them in that on test day and i know i would have gotten them completely wrong had i not done that. I thought the skills practices were really good training for the sims honestly, I wish they had those in the old version of becker i was using for the 1st 2 attempts.
I took a practice test a week ahead using the book to look up mcqs i wasnt sure on, 69%, took the next practice test two days before actual, not using book, and got a 74%. Actual score 83.
Take all of this with a grain of salt though as this was my third attempt at FAR in a row and i was fairly familiar with the material from the first two tries. Failed Q4 16 with a 65, first test, didnt really know what to expect. Passed audit and BEC in the meantime. Failed again Q1 17 with a 66 as i was trying to cram it in before the change, failed due to lack of study time because i was in busy season and on a pretty rough client the three weeks leading up to the test and it's not easy to comprehend anything when you don't even start studying til 9pm. Third try was the charm though i guess.
Anyway, best of luck to all of you. I hope you slay the dragon known as FAR, I wouldn't wish that monster on my worst enemy. Keep hanging in there and we'll all get out of this alive soon enough!
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