[William]

My approach to the MCQ was to go topic by topic and only see new questions until I saw every question. Once I saw every question my trending and average were pretty close, somewhere around 50%. (Not good, I know) Now I’m going through looking at questions I missed last time until I have answered every question correctly. I am doing this section by section. Once I clear a section the trending for that section is 100%. This makes my current trending artificially high, currently 81%. I am taking notes on what I miss and why I miss it. I’m doing my best to not memorize answers but understand why its the right answer. I have 9 days until the exam and am just freaking out a little. I haven’t started looking at SIMS yet. I read the Wiley book and am using NINJA MCQ.

Is this a bad strategy? Should I change things up for the last 9 days?

[William]

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[eMeRGeD]

I'm in the same boat… Taking the exam the 5th and am Trending 55-65% on MCQ with the occasional 80/90%+.. I'm getting really discouraged and I'm not sure what to do either except keep going through the MCQ. I'm usually solid on the SIMS, i just get tripped up by the wording of a lot of the MCQ. I think your strategy is good. When I get really frustrated during a study session I usually channel that frustration into, “If i'm going to get anything out of these past xx hours, I'm going to learn yy”.. it helps me to feel like I'm making progress. I'd also say tackle the topics you know you're weak on. I know I need to look more at all things Government, foreign currency stuff, dollar value LIFO, etc.. I think you know what those topics are for you and I'd spend some time getting a grasp of what's going on with those and what the questions around those topics are getting at.

[cafeteria_food]

Your methodology sounds spot-on to me. I found taking notes on questions missed and reviewing these notes was extremely helpful. I also had times where my MCQ trend would be way down because I was only viewing new questions and there where times where the trend would be WAY high because I was reviewing “trouble questions”. Don't let the trend scare you – as long as you feel like you're learning something each time you study it was a productive session.

As an example, on BEC I was trending at 76 and scored a 91. FAR trend 72, actual score 84. Countless other examples on the official Trend vs. Actual google doc: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qxfKqNvZWrKtQ-VfVsy49otykmubeSHOeX4lJlGxVtc/edit?usp=sharing

You got this!

[steven.meditz]

Honestly, don't worry about trending and the amounts you get wrong or right. Worry about understanding the material. People stress a lot on the grades they get on practice exams and practice MCQ's when in reality it is a poor judgement of scoring. Take it one question at a time, try your best and if you get it wrong, know why you got it wrong.

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