[Anonymous]

NINJA Question –

Hello all,

I will be taking FAR on Oct. 9th, at which point I’ll be at just about 8 weeks of studying. This will be my first exam section. I am following the Ninja Framework for the most part, so I finished my Becker MCQs early last week, including a practice exam which I scored about a 70% on, and about a 75% for the sims (first real practice for sims). I have been focusing on reviewing notes and ninja MCQs since then.

I have only attempted about 230 questions so far in the Ninja MCQs, but I’m worried about the difficulty level. When doing Becker MCQs I felt very unsure, always looking for the trick, and scoring much lower percentages. I was much more concerned about passing. So far in Ninja my average is a 79%, and my average trending score is 84% has been rising steadily. I feel as though the questions are extremely straight forward, very conceptual, much less tricky, and most of all much less math intensive. I go through entire 30 question sessions without writing down anything for scratch paper and do the math either in my head or a calculator. I feel like the harder concepts (leases, bonds, pensions, TS) are not coming up much. Sometimes the only questions I get wrong are ones that involve a random fact/concept that I’ve never seen in school or in Becker (which is AWESOME that I’m getting exposure to these random facts – Rabbi trusts?! What? lol)

Are the Ninja MCQs comparable to actual test questions? I’m not trying to be critical of Jeff or Ninja here, but just genuinely wondering for my own benefit. I just want to be sure that I am not being lulled into a false sense of confidence.

Also, is there anything I should be doing to improve my use of the Ninja MCQs? I have been doing strictly adaptive learning mode. Should I instead do “custom” and only select new questions? Any advice would be awesome! Thanks!

[Mjganier]

I would do as many new questions as possible. If you want to target specific subjects, just click custom mcq button and you can choose which areas you want and if you want all new ones or missed questions. I found that my actual FAR exam was way more straightforward than the CPAexcel and ninja questions. I would try and get through as many of these questions as possible as I felt it really prepared me for FAR. I did close to 2500 MCQ with most of those in ninja.

FAR 8/18/2014--87
AUD 10/18/2014--78
REG 11/24/2014--76
BEC 2/28/2015--76

"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough"-Albert Einstein

Study Mats: Cpaexcel study text and EQ, Ninja MCQ, Ninja notes

[Anonymous]

@Mjganier – wasn't sure if I should just keep it in adaptive mode or not cause I was under the impression that was the strength of Ninja MCQs vs other test banks but I guess I will focus more on just doing new questions now.

[Mjganier]

From what I understand of the adaptive learning phase, it will give you questions based upon your weaker areas not necessarily harder areas. The more questions you get wrong in a certain area, the more often those types of questions will show up in your mcq sessions. If you've only attempted about 230 questions, then that leaves close to 1200 mcqs that you have not yet seen yet. I don't think you have really gotten into the meat and potatoes of the questions for the adaptive learning phase to adapt to you.

The first time I went through the mcq's, I did each mcq once. Once all mcq's were finished, I did mcq sessions with questions pulled from the “missed last time seen” questions. Most of the areas I would see in a session consisted of those areas where I first missed the most questions. The way I see it, the more of the questions you see, the more you learn and retain the info.

FAR 8/18/2014--87
AUD 10/18/2014--78
REG 11/24/2014--76
BEC 2/28/2015--76

"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough"-Albert Einstein

Study Mats: Cpaexcel study text and EQ, Ninja MCQ, Ninja notes

[tomq04]

The ninja questions are great! I felt they were very on par with the exam. If you look at the trending score vs actual there is a strong correlation. That being said, I was an outlier as my trending avg was 71% and I passed with an 83.

REG- (1) 76
FAR- (2) 64, (5)74, (7)83 (Over achiever!)
AUD- (3) 70, (4) 75
BEC- (6) 75

[ScarletKnightCPA]

I felt like that the Ninja questions tended to be harder compared to Wiley Test Bank questions and covered more material. Haven't done Becker so I cannot compare it to that, and I tried Ninja only after passing the sections so I might be biased.

Far: 76 (Wiley Test Bank)
Aud: 77 (Wiley Test Bank)
Reg: 61, 76 (Wiley book, Wiley Test Bank)
Bec: 86 (Wiley Test Bank)

MBA in progress

[se7en.14]

I've seen some questions that I dont recall reading about (just came across rabbi trust..) in Becker or that wasn't emphasized much. I guess it wont hurt to learn new info from ninja. =)

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