2 Months to Study for FAR

Hey Amit,

I personally think 2 months is sufficient if you have a good study plan. I've seen that Jeff recommends 6-8 weeks @ 20 hours per week for FAR and if you follow that you should be fine.

Also, I know that FAR is twice in volume as compared to BEC and AUD, so I think its important to go on reviewing what you have learned. For instance, you can't do Ch.1 in the first couple of days and then review it only after you are done with the other 8 Chs,

Good Luck Studying 🙂

2 months is the perfect amount of time. Depending on the individual, if you start sooner you begin running into the problem of forgetting the earlier material.

Or at least I did………6-8 weeks is a good time frame for this exam…..

I spent 1 1/2 hours each morning studying (5:00am-6:30am) and 3-4 hours each weekend morning (6 or 7 until 10 or 11).

BTW – one of the best tips I received was to play the Yaeger lectures in “fast” mode. Doing this reduces a one hour lecture to 45-50 minutes. This will still allow you to stop, take notes, then hit play again.

I listened to the Audit lectures (all 5 of them) about 10 times each. I only got to listen to the FAR lectures (all 20 of them?) 2 times each. But they really helped!

Good luck!

Hi everyone – I didn’t start this thread by I’m in kind of the same boat so I guess I’ll piggyback.

I’m working on the Yaeger FAR HomeStudy. I began working on 1/2/11, and I’m scheduled for 2/26. The good news is that the material has been very helpful, and I think I’m picking up on what’s being taught. The bad news is that after four nights, I’ve pretty much have only finished the first of 15 CDs and I haven’t gone in-depth into MCQs or SIMS or anything. I’ve just been watching, pressing pause, and taking notes. My notes need a lot of work, as I pretty much just read along as Cindy read IFRS from the text.

As I type this, I have (I think) 51 nights left before the exam… that’s 34 weekdays, 16 weekend days, and 1 holiday (President’s Day). I work full time, and plan on studying two hrs/night/week day, and four hours/weekend day. President’s Day will be a study festival.

This is my first effort to study for any portion of the exam, so I’m very nervous about budgeting my time. Basically I’m worried about taking two hours to complete every hour of lecture, and being left with maybe 30 study hours to do MCQs, rewrite notes, and do a final review (and CRAM?). Am I looking at something the wrong way? Could I just be taking notes very inefficiently if it takes me two hours to type notes for one hour of lecture? (I like Cindy, but Lord she talks quickly.) Should I also budget time for the Wiley Test Bank?

Thanks for any help!

PS – My ace in the hole is that this is my first attempt at any portion, so I could reschedule the exam to the next window without worrying about losing a passing score (NTS expires in May).

I did it in four weeks; you have plenty of time!!!!

It really all depends on you. How you study and how you learn. I think its possible, but I hate being pressed for time so for me 2 months would be cutting it close.