[Anonymous]

I’m doing my final review before the exam, and I just realized how alot of the MC questions are so damn verbose and long. Just reading it and writing down the key info takes one minute. Then, you have to analyze and calculate. I can get the write answer 90% of the time, but with the time constraint, that % is drastically reduced (stupid mistakes like missing keywords, calculation error, etc.).

I mean, some of these MC questions have so many freaking moving parts that you have to re-read it just to make sure you don’t miss anything and you understand exactly what they’re asking for. Is the real exam like this? I don’t understand why they would have 7 TBS and also have MC questions that are like mini TBS. I’m confident that I can get most of the questions right, just not when they’re so damn long with only 4 hours to complete everything.

My final review is going soooooooo slooooooooooowwww. Gonna take forever to get through all the questions a 2nd time. I was really hoping to read-through all my textbook highlights after my 2nd run through the questions, and doing a 3rd run through the questions. Doesn’t look like it will happen.

[Anonymous]

I was terrified of this going into FAR. I am a very very slow test taker and some of the practice MCQ's were taking me 5 minutes to get through. I thought there was no way I was going to get through this exam. For what it's worth my exam was not like this at all. The MCQ's were a lot of knowledge based questions – either you knew it or you didn't. The computation ones were not at all like Becker – they were much more like the Wiley online test bank questions. One & two step compuations – but quick and easy. If you think about it – the test is timed – there is no way they can give an exam where all the questions are long computations – nobody would ever pass. Good luck!

[MRSJLeon917]

One thing I've started doing, especially with these long questions you're talking about, is reading the actual question (typically just the last sentence) first so I know what they are looking for exactly. I find that many times, the questions give a ton of useless information and if you know what type of answer you need, you can ignore some of the information in the question. Maybe try practicing some questions like this and see if it works for you.

AUD (5/25/2012): 91
FAR (10/22/2012): 89
REG (11/28/2012): 89
BEC (01/05/2013): 82
Ethics Exam: 90

IL Licensed CPA - 7/15/2013

A long journey, officially DONE!

[kts1010]

@MRS

I do the exact same thing, and with FAR this seems like a necessity. I am still going through my first time on F6 and this exam is just taking a lot longer it feels to go through a lot of the problems. I really hope when I start going back through in 2 more weeks once I start my final review I remember some of the stuff I have learned. I hope the 4 review weeks I have left before my exam will be enough to review everything at least once more and the hard parts twice more with only about 3 hours during the week days for studying and 5-6 hours on the weekends. I gave myself 9 weeks for FAR and I really hope it is enough. I did 6 for audit and 8 for REG and that got me 2 82's so hopefully 9 weeks is enough to give me that 82 in FAR.

AUD - 08/20/12 - 82
REG - 10/30/12 - 82
FAR - 01/05/13 - 80
BEC - 04/15/13 - 84

[samdiegoCPA]

Roger tells us to read the last sentence first so that's what I do as well. A lot of the questions are “What's the interest expense?” and they give you all this common stock crap, or depreciation… which makes the problem huge! All you need is like two numbers out of the 7 they give you, it's so annoying.

AUD: 84
REG: 84
BEC: 79
FAR: 83

[MRSJLeon917]

@samdiegoCPA – Exactly! Many times, they give you a ton of extra information that is completely irrelevant to the actual question they are asking. It's a huge waste of time to read the entire problem first since the answer may be obvious just by reading the question or, by reading the question first, you can know which information is irrelevant in the problem and not waste your time trying to use that information.

AUD (5/25/2012): 91
FAR (10/22/2012): 89
REG (11/28/2012): 89
BEC (01/05/2013): 82
Ethics Exam: 90

IL Licensed CPA - 7/15/2013

A long journey, officially DONE!

[Anonymous]

The long questions are terrible, and every time they would come up I knew it would prob be a pain in the ass. As mentioned above, read read the last sentence or question stem first. I picked this up from Becker and it really helped with know what to pick out with those ridiculous questions.

The more MCQs you do, the more you learn the material and the better you get and tackling anything they can throw at you.

Good luck

[RedBullRacing]

I agree with MRS. I just started to read the last sentence first and that saves me a ton of headache, because the MC questions on Becker at least love to give you a lot of distracter information!

BEC - 85
FAR - 72, 80
REG - 79
AUD - 81

Used only Becker. Let the book burning begin!

[Anonymous]

I actually do read the last sentence or two first to see what the question is. But, like I said, alot of these questions are mini-TBS and take at least 3 minutes to answer. It's good to hear the real exam isn't suppose to have many of these long MCQs; but, if mine does, I'm screwed.

My exam is next Friday, and I just started my 2nd review of CH:3. I was hoping to get through all the chapters and have time to do a 3rd review, but I don't have enough time. I still need to memorize all the formulas, concepts, and rules holistically. I wasted too much time doing Becker's Final Review, which is a waste of money & it might be the reason I fail.

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