[Anonymous]

NINJA Question –

For the people using Ninja MCQ, are you doing questions by section or sets of random questions? I typically do sets of 5 or 10 questions and have been doing random questions but am thinking about working on one section at a time. Just wanted to get a sense of what people are doing and if one way or the other is more helpful in retaining the information.

[Mamabear]

It was only out when I took REG. My strategy was to read the entire book and work the problems in the book to get a good foundation. Then I hit the Ninja MCQ, section by section, taking notes as needed. Once I finished with a section and felt comfortable with it, I moved on to the next section and worked all of those questions. I typically did a 20-30 question refresher quiz on all prior topics right before I started a new topic. Go through all the questions that way, then focus on you weak areas while still taking short quizzes on your other areas. I would do more than 5 or 10 questions. I would do the entire set. If the entire set for a topic was 200 questions, then I would select a subtopic and do all the ones for the subtopic, etc. When I was in the test bank stage of my studying I did anywhere from 50-200 questions a day depending on the material.

CPA Exam - Finally DONE (November 2014)
BEC (08/10/13) 80
AUD (08/24/13) 65 (11/13/13) 85
FAR (04/12/14) 81
REG (07/19/14) 69 (11/29/14) 87!!

[Megatron]

I would do sets of random questions, it wasn't until I had 2 days until my test that I figured out I could click on one of the 5 status bars and get a test just in that section. At least I know if I need to retake if I don't pass. Good luck!

FAR - 77
BEC - 77
AUD - 89
REG - 85

[rjg72001]

For FAR Ninja MCQs I started off doing random questions to get a sense of what I knew and had no clue about. I tend to do sets of 10 questions at a time to keep focused and have time to take notes on my problem questions. Once I had about 200 MCQs under my belt I started carefully looking over my scores to see where I needed to focus my time.

I spent a day or so doing questions in the areas that I had not seen any questions from previously. Once I had seen some questions from every section I looked at my scores again.

The specific topics where I scored a 25% or lower, I would pick one topic at a time and do repetitive sets of 10 questions from that topic until I could get a 95% or better on 10 questions. Then I would move onto the next topic.

Once everything was brought up to at least a 25% I started hitting the sections where I scored 26-50%. Then up to 75%.

Personally, this helped me to drill down on my more difficult topics and spend my precious study time on what I felt needed to be worked on the most.

I took my FAR exam on 1/26/15. I felt like there wasn't any topic on the exam that I hadn't seen. It was not traumatic like I was expecting it to be from reading other experiences. By no means do I mean to indicate that the exam was easy, but I felt very well prepared for all of the questions.

Besides 6 months of the Ninja MCQs, I used Ninja Flashcards, the free Ninja Notes chapter about Governmental, an old Bisk book on FAR, a few free youtube videos with memory tricks (maybe from Becker? or Wiley?), and the awesome Ninja IFRS vs. GAAP rap video. (I know I'm cheap, but I'm a single mom and on a very tight budget just to pay for the test so every study aid purchase had to be carefully selected.)

I don't get my score until next week, but here's to hoping that my method worked. I feel strongly that I either passed or came very close to it. Here's to hoping.

FAR - 61 (1/15), Rematch - NEXT
REG - 70 (11/15), Rematch - Coming after next FAR Exam
BEC - Planning in 2016 after FAR & REG Wins
AUD - Planning in 2016 after FAR, REG & BEC wins

Good things don't come to those who wait.
Good things come to those who work their A$$es off
and never give up!

Every negative experience has taught me something.
I am like the weathered willow,
I bend with the wind,

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the responses I think I will switch over to studying section by section.

[Anonymous]

Section by Section. I take a quiz one day. The next day I pull the questions from that group that I got wrong. If I still get those questions wrong, I write them down as they are obviously problems. Then I do a fresh quiz and keep going like that.

In the final week I take only randomly selected quizzes of only New / Unseen questions. For a week before that I take just random questions instead of section by section. Sorry for the sequential juggling, but it works as long as you are in the test bank for more than 2 weeks. I have been spending about 4 weeks in the test bank on the most recent exams that I am passing.

I am not so concerned to answer all of the questions as I am getting a big enough sample from each section and writing down those questions that I got wrong twice as I mentioned. Those are the notes that I am reading in the final 3-5 days.

[Anonymous]

I use the custom mcq option- new questions only. After I've done a few hundred questions I will go look at the progress report and see which areas are my weakest. Then I customize questions based on my weakest topic to my strongest topic (plus new questions only feature). Then after awhile I will go back to new questions only. I switch it up. i never re-do the same question twice. Of course, if you get the question wrong sometimes it shows up again even if you do new questions only.

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