[klmc]

Idk if I zone out alot but it takes me quite a long time to finish a set of 50 MCQ’s. It ussually takes me like 2 and half hours. For every question I get wrong I make a note card of it and add it to the collection to review for later. I also read why I got it wrong and sometimes why I got the question right.

Does it take anybody this long to do MCQ’s or am I just slow and should I be doing them faster so I can knock more out?

|FAR| - 72, 83
|AUD| - 73, 76
|REG| - 76
|BEC| - 73, 82

ALL DONE!!

[Anonymous]

For the first time through each question, I do sets of 10, taking 10-20 minutes tops. I'll do 4-5 sets of these, then go back and work the problems that I missed. I also take notes for questions missed, or questions I guessed correctly on. If you think you are zoning out too much with a set of 50, (I know I would be), try doing sets of 10 or 20. Best of luck.

[Hustle Darling!]

@kmlc – I was a little discouraged when I began the Non-stop MCQ phase of the NINJA method. Smaller sets will definitely help. A post from @Iggy1985 suggests doing an “initial assessment” of 10 MCQs per section to help determine your weak (< 70%) areas. Then do MCQ in increments of 20 to get your score in each weak section to 70%. Then work towards getting at least 80% in every area.

This process helped me get focused.I did the initial assessment yesterday with minimal note taking since it's an assessment. Today I am focusing on my weak areas (11) and adding to my notes from the Intense Note phase. We'll see how long that takes.

Roger CPA Review
FAR - 5/31/16

[klmc]

How exactly does the Ninja assessment stage work? does it give you multiple choice questions depending on difficulty? Say you are not doing that well, would it give you “medium” testlet questions

|FAR| - 72, 83
|AUD| - 73, 76
|REG| - 76
|BEC| - 73, 82

ALL DONE!!

[klmc]

How exactly does the Ninja assessment stage work? does it give you multiple choice questions depending on difficulty? Say you are not doing that well, would it give you “medium” testlet questions

|FAR| - 72, 83
|AUD| - 73, 76
|REG| - 76
|BEC| - 73, 82

ALL DONE!!

[Kimboroni]

I've never timed it out, but I am slow in doing MCQs also. I tend to go more for quality studying than quantity. The most MCQs I've done for a section was 1300 for FAR (that was the total over the entire 8 or so weeks that I studied for FAR). You can see what works for you.

AUD 84 (1/9/14-Wiley books/TB + free materials)
FAR 83 (5/21/14-the above + NINJA 10 Pt Combo Lite)
REG 84 (7/9/14-Wiley books/TB + NINJA Audio/FC/Notes)
BEC 76 (10/5/14-Wiley books/TB + NINJA Audio/FC)

Disclaimer: My ninja avatar is not meant to imply that I have any affiliation with this site other than being a forum member. That's a pic of a T-shirt that my daughter gave me for my birthday. 🙂

[koz124]

I second the suggestion of doing smaller sets of MCQ's. Even in sets up 20 I'd start losing focus and multi tasking, but when I kept it to 10 question sets, I'd be 200% more productive. Even if I did 10 sets of 10 back to back.

Studying with Wiley Review, Wiley Test Bank, Ninja Audio.
Retakes with Ninja MCQ only...awesome!
Far - 1/28 72, 7/22 79
Aud - 2/28 70, 8/14 83
Bec - 4/10 80
Reg - 5/30 64, 7/2 82

[CPA soon]

On Average each set of ten questions takes me about 30 minutes.

FAR - 71, 68, 74, (8/31/14) 78 ✔
REG - 67, 71, 71, (10/18/14) 78 ✔
BEC - (11/29/14) 86 ✔
AUD - 73, (4/4/15) 86 ✔

I can't believe this is over! 2 years and 3 months..

[Hustle Darling!]

@klmc – It's a DIY assessment. You do 10 questions per section and track your score. See the pic below from Iggy1985.

https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v301/Vixia/spreadsheet_zps5f871507.png

Roger CPA Review
FAR - 5/31/16

[klmc]

Thanks for that link! that is a really good idea to track your MCQ progress using a spreadsheet, thnx!

|FAR| - 72, 83
|AUD| - 73, 76
|REG| - 76
|BEC| - 73, 82

ALL DONE!!

[kdawg88]

The way im handling the NINJA MCQ's is customizing the sessions to show only new questions, until I've seen all 1,400. Do however many MCQ's per session, but make sure they are all new questions. The program will remember each and every one you get wrong. At the point when you've seen all the questions you can start customizing the sessions to show only questions you've gotten wrong, this way you can review all missed questions.

I know when you're doing the MCQ's you're determined to try and get em all right, but that is just not realistic. When you don't know it, you don't know it, don't force yourself into making a good guess, instead get the question wrong and have it explained to you.

By doing this you can focus on the questions/topics you don't know, and simply lightly review stuff you do know.

AUD - 78 (first attempt)
BEC - 79 (first attempt)
FAR - 72, 79 =)
REG - 71

[Hustle Darling!]

No problem … this spreadsheet changed my life! lol!

@jeff this is a great way to see how you're progressing with non-stop MCQs

Roger CPA Review
FAR - 5/31/16

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