[SweetCPA]

I just got my score today 39. I am so shocked.. I thought I did pretty good especially with MC questions and research questions the rest I was just guessing. This was my first exam but I never thought I would score this low. I worked only with Wiley Book and did all the released questions also.I didn’t practice sims.. but uhhhhhhhhhh I am so embarrassed to even tell my parents

[Not a Quitter]

Something seems REALLY off here if you were scoring in the 80s on Wiley and made that low of a score. I'm not trying to make you feel worse but it almost seems as iff your test didn't submit correctly if you were truly as prepared as you say.

FAR- 85 I'm DONE!
BEC- 75
REG- 60,60,75
AUD- 74,74,83

CPAExcel used for BEC, AUD, REG
Exam Matrix used for FAR plus NINJA Blitz, cpareviewforfree and a little CPAExcel

[Anonymous]

I ditto the change in approach.

[SlickRick]

How exactly were you studying? What was your strategy?

AUD- 86
FAR- 79
BEC- 83
REG- 87

[MintsRGood]

If you were pounding the MCQs everyday from the same source, it's highly possible that you inadvertently memorized the test bank answers!!! This happened to me on my 3rd round with audit…I did 2000+MCQs in the test bank, crazy hours, was scoring in the 90's etc. and came up with a 68. A pal gave me their login for another MCQ source for the day and suggested I do a ton of MCQs and see if my scores were still strong to test my theory. After spending several hours with the new MCQ supply, I couldn't break a 65% or definitively state why the correct answer was correct and the other were incorrect! That's when it became clear that I had abused the test bank and memorized rather than learned.

Time to switch materials and get some new MCQs. Really focus on why the correct answer is correct and also why the other choices are incorrect. Every MCQ presents you with 4 learning opportunities!

REG: 75 DONE 🙂
AUD: 61, 71, 68, 92 DONE 🙂
BEC: 76 DONE 🙂
FAR: 72, 74, 79 DONE 🙂
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[CPA soon]

Like my Michigan buddy said 🙂 plus it sounds like you are solving the book questions (not efficient) and not a testbank software. You need to buy a testbank for sure.

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..

[SweetCPA]

This Is how I did it. 1. studied only the theory first so I could get an idea 2. Back again to writing notes and working all the questions at Wiley 3. Printed all AICPA release questions from 2006-2013 . Did all the questions again and again.. Sims I didnt worked on them a lot only those ones release from Aicpa. No I didn't let anything Blank from Sims.. at least I remeber i was just putting numbers here and there assuming things for 2 sims that I wasnt sure. I had a lot from IFRS Govermental and Not-profit which I studied those hard since I knew from my friends experience they had a lot of questions from this chapters.

Is the Advisory release score the final one? This is my first exam so I have no Idea how it works

[Anonymous]

A 39 means that you definitely need to change your approach. CPA Excel was thorough for REG. I love the NINJA notes, but they really aren't designed to get you from a 39 to 75, more like 60 to 75. I may be in the majority on this site, but I would take your strongest subject first. I passed BEC rather easily (I work in finance and have a CMA) and I didn't study as effectively as I did for my future exams, since the whole CPA process was new. If you are intent on passing FAR first then you need to know the NINJA notes cold, and listen to the NINJA audio to reinforce the topics, and get some help.

As far as the SIMS, you need to maneuver around the authoritative literature, and apply the MCQ concepts. I did well on the SIMS for REG and second AUD exam, but I would be worried taking FAR without knowing the format and layout of SIMS.

[zieba]

advisory = final

I got a 23 on REG once; though I only studied two chapters, and even those were half arsed attempts.

Case and point: I've been pounding WTB for weeks. I'm getting scores in the mid 80's. I switched to Jeff's MCQ's and got 3 out of the first six wrong. They were topics from pages I read, but pages which my review didn't focus MCQ's on.

You cannot go at it again with the same questions and technique. ” “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.”

AUD - 75*, 88 done 5/14! (*exp)
BEC - 74 , 77
REG - 65 , 76 (10 point combooo!!)
FAR - 69 , 75

Dr: perseverance
Dr: intelligence
Dr: luck
. Cr: . advisory score

[zieba]

“3. Printed all AICPA release questions from 2006-2013” to be fair this is only what? 120 MCQ's?

I can do this in two hours… and at the end of those two hours in the back of my mind I already know the answers to some.

I do thousands of MCQ's leading up to the exam, and I always read explanations irrespective of whether I answered it correctly or not.

I echo above sentiments, Ninja won't take you from 39 to 79….

AUD - 75*, 88 done 5/14! (*exp)
BEC - 74 , 77
REG - 65 , 76 (10 point combooo!!)
FAR - 69 , 75

Dr: perseverance
Dr: intelligence
Dr: luck
. Cr: . advisory score

[Anonymous]

You might want to consider a score review. Basically, they just confirm that they used the right answer key. If you felt better about your experience, maybe something crazy did happen and they made a mistake.

I'd also recommend moving on to your strongest subject. It's great to get an exam out of the way. Also, if you lose credit for it down the road, it's one of your stronger subjects.

[ymmit]

well first off, did you take the right test? Maybe you thought you took Far but it was BEC? Hey its possible..

If you say you averaged in the 80's idk

Licensed CPA!

[SweetCPA]

Just called them now 200$ for review and 1% chance of changing the score … Screw that I rather retake it again

[nicole2035]

I bet it def had to do with nerves. WIth Gleim I would go through a 2 MC quizzes, thinking by 3rd time i'd nail it. Only to get back a score as low as a 45%. Then from there I knew there were assumptions I was making that weren't correct. Whether it had to do with time period, concept, etc. I think nerves also got the best of you because if i'm nervous I will legit just tune out everything. I get why you'd be embarrassed but the test is difficult. Also you never know what score people really get on here, you can only worry about your path to the CPA. I also suggest getting other review materials to see what yours may be leaving out. Me reading Gleim and then Wiley, was like 2 different worlds, even question wise sometimes.

as others said, i'd double check with the testing center etc

[JamesBJames]

@zieba, there are usually 50 questions per year of released AICPA questions. That means doing all of the released questions from 2006-2013 would be around 400 questions.

I actually went through them all during my final review too, although I think most CPA Exam review packages incorporate them into the homework. For example, I am almost positive every single one of the released questions was somewhere in the HW for Becker. You're right in the sense that I knew the answer to a ton of them just because I remembered the question in Becker, but repetition isn't necessarily a bad thing if you analyze the question. It helped highlight some of my weaker areas.

FAR: May 1st, 2014 - 91
AUD: May 29th, 2014 - 97!
BEC: July 16th, 2014 - 91
REG: August 29th, 2014 - 88

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[SweetCPA]

I had like 5 questions in exam exactly the same in released question or worded a lil different

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