Just took the exam. All I have to say is wow..mcq were OK, nothing that you couldn't handle if you been studying hard. Sims on the other hand was a different story. Had 2 DRS and one enhance sim. First DRS was OK, second was a killer. Had like 2-3 sims on what people would call “hard”/difficult topics. I wish I can say what were they, but you know I can't.
Got very lucky with the research question. Wasted 20 minutes and didn't find what I was looking then..boom and my eye lit up because I was just to give up and feeling dejected like the first time I took FAR and couldn't find the damn research question. Pretty much sure it's 250% correct.
My suggestion:
– Practice DRS a bit because you want to be very comfortable with being able search through the documents. You don't want to be the deer in the headlight and shifting through the docs without any clue where or what to do when you start.
– Same old thing as last format – hit NFP/Gov't/IFRS hard, know your j/e.
– Don't bother wasting time on the AICPA blueprint nonsense. Just study hard.
– Take the 15 minute break, unless you're an ironman.
My time:
About 1:05 on MCQ
Rest on sims
I probably would have put 10-15 minutes more on MCQ if I were to retake it again.
I won't lie, but I could definitely say Gleim gave me a chance to put up a good fight on sims compared to my first attempt. Hope I did well enough for the CPA gods to give me a pass.
@thelatebloomer I went through Gleim first then to Ninja. Did nothing except 125 daily MCQ progress test from all topics on the test prep and did a lot of sims also. Last 3-4 days before the test I did nothing except Ninja MCQ with only unseen and non repeats so I really test my knowledge instead trying to inflate some bs number up.
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