[jeff]

I just checked mine for MA – still error score not found. Nothing yet

[Anonymous]

I wouldn't attach a lot of importance to the practice final exams..don't let that beat you down at this point.

Best of luck to all!

[Anonymous]

Using Yaeger Home Study…..finally done w/DVD's, and am now going back over each chapter reading all my notes & the handout that goes w/each chapter, then working the minimum MCQ for each chapter.

I guess I was expecting this to go the same as BEC & AUD, which I used this same technique. As I am doing the MCQ, I am keeping track of my score, and am getting around 50% correct, where with BEC & AUD, I would get between 70-80%.

This is really putting a damper on my studying!!!

I guess I won't be trying to squeeze REG in this window also….guess I'll be slowing down and reviewing alot more FAR.

Any suggestions/comments?

[Anonymous]

CPA-Valenz- Don't get discouraged! I am used to getting in the 70% 80% and 90% the first time around doing homework during all my other study sessions for exams but now that I am on FAR I have been lucky to get in the 60% and 70%. I also consider financial accounting one of my strong suits. I just think that there is so much information to remember and cover that it gets a bit overwhelming the first time around. I have started to go back through at try some homework again and am doing much better on them the second time around. I am also in a prep class as part of my masters program and everyone in the class seems to be having the same experience as well as far as getting in the 50% the first time around. I would just keep your head up and really rely on your final review of going back through the homework as a good measure of where you are. I plan on going back through and if I do really bad on a section for the second time I will carefully reread that section of the book to see what I am missing. Just thought I would let you know that you are not alone in this terrible section of the exam. FAR is my last one and it is living up to its name. I hope this makes you feel better and encourages you to keep pressing on!!

[MPoni123]

hi everybody!! i am sitting for FAR aug. 31 (in MA). i just took BEC a few days ago for the 3rd time and think the exam went pretty well. you can never tell with these exams, though, but i am hopeful!

i used yaeger homestudy for BEC because Becker wasn't doing it for me the first 2 times. i used Becker for AUD and REG and will also be using it for FAR as well. i am on chapter 2 so far.

AUD - 84; REG - 90; BEC - 79; FAR - 75; ALL DONE!!

[Anonymous]

Thanks you beckeralltheway, for your kind words.

I am still truding through the questions, and making myself a cheat sheet as I go, I already have my notes from the DVD's which are quite lengthy.

I will get it …. just apparently not as quickly as I did for AUD and BEC.

[Anonymous]

MPoni, Hi! Glad to hear BEC went OK for you this round – you will get a passing grade in a few weeks!!

I'm also using Becker and have my exam scheduled for Aug. 27. I've done the lectures through Ch. 4, but I'm not through all the MCQs yet. I have Becker's Final Review so I hope/plan to have time to get through that as well.

[MPoni123]

hi connie!! thanks – i have a good feeling about BEC, but only time will tell! i have about a month's wait lol so i just gotta move on to FAR! i honestly wish i had Yaeger for FAR, but don't wanna spend another $400 to get it. I already ordered the Becker 2010 software months ago before I decided to sit for BEC again before doing FAR…so i mine as well use it.

i just finished chapter 2 – i thought it was pretty intense! i had a few weeks off from work, which is good, but i got back monday so i am trying to get through a few more chapters before i go back.

it's nice to know we are doing FAR together (and hopefully the last section for me!) congrats on all your other 3 passes!! 🙂 no screwing around for me for the next 5 1/2 weeks!!

AUD - 84; REG - 90; BEC - 79; FAR - 75; ALL DONE!!

[Anonymous]

MAN!!! Trying to remember all of these formulas & JE….plus everything else is KILLING ME!!

[Anonymous]

One of the most frustrating things about taking FAR 3 freaking times is that I remember topics that were previously tested and I'd really get those down pat and then they would not be anywhere on the next exam. Topics Becker said were “critical” to learn were no where on my exam the other day.

I will say that I think the questions are overall easier than the study guide's. Regardless, just know how to do them so you know what sneaky tricks the examiners will pull. Besides the simulations, the questions were not that complex. Then again, I probably got the pity testlets.

[Anonymous]

Hey, I have been cheering for all of you who tested this week. Keep your heads up! Don't be discouraged! I am testing next Saturday 7/31 and am finding it more and more difficult to study. I was thinking that I would be so pumped up since this is my last part but I literally feel like my body is shutting down! I just want to go to sleep at night; I don't want to stay up and study! I have taken some progress tests and am scoring between 60-90% on individual sections. I am going to take a simulated exam tonight. Then work on some sims this weekend then more MCQs next week leading up to the exam. Do you think that sounds like a good plan?

[MPoni123]

What study material are you using ChaFay? You still have another 1.5 weeks to study, so it sounds like you have a good review plan going. I probably wouldn't bother doing any of the sims till a few nights before only because we all know the sims will be nothing like the study material ones. lol I just think it is more beneficial to go over multiple choice questions and focus on the questions that you are still getting wrong (since you scored 60% on some progress tests).

I just ordered Yaeger Homestudy for FAR!! I was using Becker 2010 software for FAR, but ordered Yaeger for BEC and absolutely love their teaching style. I am hoping I passed BEC, but either way they actually explain concepts and go over problems with you, which is in line with the way I learn. It will be an intense 5.5 weeks, but I am ready! Yaeger makes me feel confident lol.

AUD - 84; REG - 90; BEC - 79; FAR - 75; ALL DONE!!

[Anonymous]

ChaFayCPA

I think that sounds like the best possible way you could be spending your last week before an exam. That is always what my last week to two weeks look like, final exams, simulations, and doing the multiple choice on sections I am still struggling with. The progress tests are a really great way to lead you to what sections you might want to go over this last week. Good luck! I am still about 3 weeks out, I am so ready to get this one over with because it is my last one too! I am definitely feeling you on the whole body and brain shutting down thing. I feel like I have been studying for this thing for my whole life! I can't wait to be done! Just finish this last week really strong so that you will be as prepared as you can be for the exam! I hope things go well for you and congratulations on taking your final exam!

[Anonymous]

MPoni and Becker: Thanks for the encouragement. I have been using Becker and it seems to have worked well for the other sections. The volume of info in FAR is just so much!

MPoni: Just think in 5.5 weeks you'll be through! How'd you feel after taking BEC earlier this week?

Becker: Congrats back to you! Keep me posted. Hope your next few weeks of studying go well! When did you start the whole process?

[Anonymous]

Hope you do well ChaFay. You have a little one, right? You're setting a wonderful example. Just think how exciting this will be to finally be done!

[lakhania]

Thanks @Potatogun

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