Hi Everyone, I'm usually a silent member of this group but I wanted to share my FAR experience with you guys because hearing others experience on the new format really helped me during the exam.
The most important thing in the new format is time management and I definitely recommend you to keep a good pace or you will run out of time. Don't spend too much time on a question you do not know. The MCQ were similar to the old format and I didn't see no big surprises if you have adequately studied. The areas that have been mentioned in other post as heavily tested was the same in my exam. I think it is to weigh out the complexity of the exam…so they can be some easy questions if you have mastered the topics.
I went into the sims with 2.25 hours remaining and I needed every bit of that time. Now brace yourself…I had 5 DRS sims in my test. They were not complicated but there were a lot of documents to review for each of them and many boxes to fill in. Therefore having enough time to complete them is the key in this area. I went into the last testlet with 45 minutes and to my surprise they were all DRS but I didn't panic. I worked through each one because I knew that I could answer them correctly if I just analyzed the information. The last SIM I had 14 minutes to complete and it had more documents and more blanks to fill out than any other SIM but once I started working it I realized that the answer to many of them was zero because no adjustments were needed. So my advice to you is to read everything…all the documents because they will be key to you answering the questions correctly. The higher order skills is really testing if you can analyze information and make the appropriate adjustments according to that information. Please feel free to ask me any questions. This is my last exam and I'm praying that we all are successful.
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