[jeff]

Recommended prep time for FAR is 6-8 weeks @ 20 hours a week.

FAR Study Notes: https://www.another71.com/cpa-review-store/

Study Videos: https://www.another71.com/cpa-exam/cpa-exam-review-video/

[Anonymous]

Nevergiveup

Thanks! I will get Yaeger.

[stevenrobb]

Ok, like many before me and many yet to come, I am looking for some shred of hope. I did a FAR retake today.. My previous score was 72. I think that I did very well on my multiple choice.. It wnt from medium to very wordy to medium. I am confident that I was absolutely right on about 70 out of the 90, 10 more maybes, and 10 ??… but there were no questions that I was thinking. huh?

Ok.. here is the bad part the sims I got CRUSHED.. i could not believe all of the journal entrys!! I know that my research Q's I got correct.. and am confident tht I got at least Very good on the communictions. Hs anyone passed even though getting totally crushed on the sims? UGGGGG. My last section! HELP! give me a probability adjusted thumbs up or down…and be honest!

[mike01]

i completed a couple of JE on boths sims and thats it and did both WC's. pretty sure I got the amounts wrong for the JE. passed witha 75.

[stevenrobb]

thx Mike

[tulip]

If you did very well on the MC, I think you will be fine.

BEC - 10/18/2010 - 79
FAR - 10/28/2010 - 82
AUD - 11/04/2010 - 73; 02/18/2011 - 86 - IT'S OVER!!!!!!
REG - 11/21/2010 - 83

[TexasTechalum]

Pretty sure I just failed FAR yesterday. Multiple choice got harder from Testlet 1 to 2, but not from 2 to 3. I got crushed on the sims as well. It seemed a lot more difficult than the other exams…that or I wasn't as prepared. Also the only exam I really felt a time crunch. Really frustrating.

AUD 07/13/10 75!
REG 08/24/10 90!
BEC 10/04/10 82!
FAR 11/22/10 79! I'm Done!

[Aldog]

I took it last week man…feel the SAME way hahaha my first testlet was medium, second seemed REALLY hard…and the third i felt like i couldve done if i didnt study, im pretty sure i got 30/30, questions were too easy haha so i reallyyy mustve bombed testlet 2 🙁

whatever i mean all we can do now is HOPE…i do NOT wanna learn IFRS + everyhting else all over again

Ive already commited to not opening grades up until january 1 either…no cpa test is gonna mess with my jollyness for next month 🙂

201, NJ
FAR-75, AUD-82, BEC-82, REG-84 - CPAldog Official (well almost, hard parts over though!!!!!!!)

[Aldog]

P.s. Anyone else feel like becker review multiple choice questions did NOT resemble the test questions very much??? I took AUD 2 days prior and they were identical…then get to FAR and everything was way different-another person had same feelings, just wondering if this was common.

worst comes 2 worst im def using yaeger next year as i see a lot of positive feedback on thread

201, NJ
FAR-75, AUD-82, BEC-82, REG-84 - CPAldog Official (well almost, hard parts over though!!!!!!!)

[Anonymous]

I just left FAR and it was terrible. It was by far the worst of the 4 times I have taken it. I switched to Yaeger this time, which helped but the questions were nothing like I have seen on previous exams. All those things I didn't study because I had never gotten questions on before, BAM! There they were.

Imagine the hardest questions in the review material – that is what I got. Exceptions, weird scenarios, ratios I've never even seen before – and I memorized all the ones in the text.

They must keep track of my weaknesses.

All I did on the simulations were the written communications. I had enough time to put guesses – and one tab all zero, just to fill it in.

The thing that made me the maddest was the last sim tab I looked at would have taken 5 minutes and I knew it well but the friggin clock ran out.

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

[jwel]

Sounding by your post,u might have passed FAR.I had a terrible exp on FAR too and ended up with an 80.GL!!!!!

FAR -80
BEC -77
AUD -68 Retake 10/12 77
REG -79 Ethics -DONE!!! Licensing begins....

[ineedadrink]

I don't think I've EVER had a sim, on any section, that I fully understood what was happening. But I passed Aud and Reg that way, and did manage a 74 on my first Far attempt. Yesterday was the same way. I was on the computer like, boop boop beep double click type some numbers beep boop – Done. There's just really no way you can prepare for those journal entries, as far as I can tell.

REG: 76 (would have lost credit 5/31)
AUD: 71, 78
BEC: 74, 81
FAR: 74, 61, 66, 69, 75 DONE

[NK19]

@stevenrobb & everyone else who got nailed by the J/E sims…I too had the same experience. I took FAR for the 2nd time yesterday. First time I left the test feeling like I failed with a 50 & got a 74. This time (after having passed the other 3 parts) I felt like I was doing pretty well w/ the M/C. The questions got progressively harder & was feeling good going into the sims. Then I open the first sim…all J/Es. & I'm a tax person, so that did not go over well with me. So I put my guesses down for the J/E & nailed the written & research. So then I figure, well the 2nd Sim can't all be J/Es too. I was wrong. Thinking about it with a fresh mind, the J/Es for both sims can only be worth 8 points total since the written is a total of 10 & the research is 2. So how bad could this have really been to my score? Overall, I felt like no amount of studying could have prepared me for the J/E, so I'm just hoping for a good xmas gift. Speaking of scores – has there been a prediction out yet for 2nd wave of scores?

[stevenrobb]

@nk19 thanks for the insight. I am guessing that we had simliar exams from what it sounds like. I am a forecasting and analytics person so agreed that any amount of study would prepare me for that level JE on the simulations. I just wonder if they aren't ‘tuning up' and normalizing some of the new sections that they will be presenting in the new test. I feel much better now.

If I was a betting man, I would guess that there is a “point threshold” that the test basically knows you have passed, and it bumps you into outrageous sims in order to continue to keep the mystique around the exam.

[Manderz]

Sooooooo is anyone else annoyed that Becker refused to start shipping any 2011 materials until yesterday??? How in the world are we supposed to learn all this new materials if we have a test in January?? Only God knows when we will actually GET the materials!!! Freaking out!!

[stevenrobb]

@aldog

Agreed we don't want tobe forced learn IFARs but learn it on our own time.. or even look it up!!! gasp!

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