[Anonymous]

Hello everyone, this is my final day before taking FAR tomorrow afternoon and I feel frustrated. I have the Becker materials for 2014 as well as the Final Review materials, both of which have gone through the lectures, MCQs and simulations for. However, some topics like Governmental/NFP accounting, Pensions, Bonds, SCFs I have a good grasp on and consistently perform well on those questions. However when I work on other like nonmonetary exchanges, foreign currency accounting I am constantly coming up with the wrong answer despite thinking through and writing out J/Es to what I thought was the correct answer.

I really do not know what to do. I want to enter tomorrows exam confident that I can hold my own and ultimately pass, but I feel that I am missing that one or two additional ingredients that will ultimately put me over the top. To those who felt similar before, what was your approach in the final days or hours before your exam that took to ensure a passing grade or to relax yourself from pre-exam anxiety to stay focus on the exam?

Thank you in advance for the responses, hope you all do very well on your exam and ultimately pass the CPA exam 🙂

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Or maybe from the BEC shakes

MBA,CMA,CPA, CFF?, ABV?

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I must need a trip to Vegas

MBA,CMA,CPA, CFF?, ABV?

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I must need a trip to Vegas

MBA,CMA,CPA, CFF?, ABV?

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Annnnd….last one. Sorry folks!

MBA,CMA,CPA, CFF?, ABV?

[How many letters do you need]

Annnnd….last one. Sorry folks!

MBA,CMA,CPA, CFF?, ABV?

[MustPass1988]

I'm in the same boat here. I'm wrapping up the material within the next week and a half and I'm working on governmental accounting right now which is really discouraging. I feel like all the sudden, everything I'm reading is in another language and I have no idea WTH is going on. It's extremely frustrating, to say the least.

I do agree that no one is going to walk into the testing center knowing everything. It's impossible to know every single bit of information from a 500 page review book when you're studying for 8 weeks. However, you should try to know at least something about everything. I wouldn't recommend going into the test and not understanding bonds or leases…but you probably aren't going to fail if you don't understand the accounting rules for converting a security from trading to AFS.

All in all, this test sucks. If my life has to be hell for the next three weeks in order to pass this thing and never have to even utter the word governmental accounting again, then so be it.

AUD: PASSED [81]; Expired, retaking August 23rd
BEC: PASSED [83]; Expired, retaking July 11th
REG: PASSED [83]
FAR: FAILED [64]; Retaking May 23rd

[MustPass1988]

I'm in the same boat here. I'm wrapping up the material within the next week and a half and I'm working on governmental accounting right now which is really discouraging. I feel like all the sudden, everything I'm reading is in another language and I have no idea WTH is going on. It's extremely frustrating, to say the least.

I do agree that no one is going to walk into the testing center knowing everything. It's impossible to know every single bit of information from a 500 page review book when you're studying for 8 weeks. However, you should try to know at least something about everything. I wouldn't recommend going into the test and not understanding bonds or leases…but you probably aren't going to fail if you don't understand the accounting rules for converting a security from trading to AFS.

All in all, this test sucks. If my life has to be hell for the next three weeks in order to pass this thing and never have to even utter the word governmental accounting again, then so be it.

AUD: PASSED [81]; Expired, retaking August 23rd
BEC: PASSED [83]; Expired, retaking July 11th
REG: PASSED [83]
FAR: FAILED [64]; Retaking May 23rd

[skmt57]

@MustPass1988 I definitely agree with you, these next two weeks for me are going to be hell…. I hope we both pass and never have to deal with it again, nice to hear other people in the same shoes, like my friend likes to say, misery enjoys company, haha

BEC 75 Oct 2013
REG 73, 93 Jan 2014
FAR 84 May 2014
AUD 81 Aug 2014

[skmt57]

@MustPass1988 I definitely agree with you, these next two weeks for me are going to be hell…. I hope we both pass and never have to deal with it again, nice to hear other people in the same shoes, like my friend likes to say, misery enjoys company, haha

BEC 75 Oct 2013
REG 73, 93 Jan 2014
FAR 84 May 2014
AUD 81 Aug 2014

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