[jeff]

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

[Anonymous]

italianCPA

Good Luck for Monday! Sounds like you are in good shpe for the FAR exam!

[whonis2002]

Good luck italianCPA, looks like your on fire for this FAR exam.

Kathyb16 and cpa journey, I guess we have to keep at it. Hopefully by the time I get to chapter 5 I still remember the MCQ's for 1,2,3 and 4. But as everybody in this forum says you have to flip back and skim through those questions once in while. I guess my question is how often does one have to do this?

[Anonymous]

italianCPA,

good luck on your exam! I really think becker is harder than the real thing so you should be able to do well unless you get an odd exam!

Other fellow FAR sufferers,

I felt ok after my exam (had a separate post so don't want to repeat it), but I start to doubt myself now. It was so weird that my exam was about 50% theory/non-calc questions, I don't know what to think of it! That's why I was able to fly through 3 testlets in 1.5 hours! And none of my calculations were complicated or wordy! Anyway, I did put in about 300+ hours studying for FAR and I think becker homeworks were HARD, not so much my exam :-/ Ok I will stop torturing myself now and move to AUD (8 hour class tomorrow) then go somewhere for the rest of the weekend! (my boyfriend's been going through this with me, he deserves a vacation as much as I do).

[potatogun]

Best just not to think about it until it is score release time.

FAR 92 - AUD 91 - REG 94 - BEC 86

[Anonymous]

ItalianCPA, I know you will do well. You sound very prepared and don't forget your NTS 🙂

big shot cpa, I will be taking Auditing next too. The book is so much smaller and looks manageable. I am just so happy to get FAR out of my life for a little while.

Sounds like we are having similar experiences with FAR: studied hard and didn't feel like the exam was too difficult. When I took it in January I thought I had over-studied but ended up with a 69; however, I did not give myself enough time for the simulations and just threw numbers in. I doubt I got any points then for the simulations.

Is anyone getting crazy-hard calculations this window?

[OnMyWay75]

25.5 hour and the beast will begin! Feeling well prepared but you never now how FAR out the questions will be. Good luck to everyone. One more day of review and it's on!

[FARbehind]

My calculations weren't “crazy hard” but tricky. Also, the questions were wordy most of the time. This time I didn't get many of the 2-line easy questions. I have no illusions that this is because I did well. Now that I think of it more, I wasn't sure on so many things. I did many of those educated guesses where I would eliminate 2 of the answers and guess from the other 2. Ahhh. My mind is so tortured. Now wait for 2 more months for the results. Unless I am in wave 1. The past year has been the worst in my life.

aud,bec,reg-passed
far-->75 Done!!!!!
ethics-100

[Anonymous]

ChaFayCPA-

Sorry for the delayed response, I started studying for this thing back in October 2009. I have been lucky enough so far not to have to repeat any sections. I am currently getting my masters and my program has a very good CPA study program. I am currently in a class to help me with FAR and last year 90% of the people in the class passed the real exam. I am still really anxious though, I guess because this is my last one. I have been trying to follow becker to a tee and I also have that class that meets Monday through Thursday for 2 hours a day. I am just hoping that when I go back through the MC for the second time I will get much better grades than I did the first time. I usually do not get below a 70% on the MC but FAR has been kicking my but and I consider getting above a 70% to be awesome the first time around. I have seen other people having the same issue though so I am not too worried, yet. Ok well I am finishing up lecture 8 today, Governmental. I took the class 2 years ago but Becker was definitely a good refresher. Good luck with your studies! Keep us posted!!

[Anonymous]

Gotta question….when you all post scores of when you are taking your quizzes/doing mcq….are you posting your scores withOUT looking up any answers in the book/notes?

Tht's the way I do it. I try to answer each question, without looking at my notes at all. If I can't figure it out w/out them, then I mark it wrong, and then look it up.

I am scoring in the 50-60% first time around with this method…

Just wondering how everyone else does it.

Thanks!!!

[Anonymous]

Becker: Hope it goes well for you to!

CPA-Valenz: when I posted % on quizzes/mcqs that was without looking up any items in notes/books.

[whonis2002]

Hi folks, I hear lots of you refering to being in certain catergories like Wave 1 (test release) etc…Can somebody explain to me what this whole wave 1 and so on, really means and how it impacts CPA candidates?

[italianCPA]

If you fall into Wave 1 (test taken within a certain deadline – estimated to be the first week of the second month of the testing window – and no new simulation on it) then you receive your score roughly one month before all other candidates who fall in Wave 2.

FAR - 7/26/10 - 95
AUD - 8/10/10 - 88
BEC - 8/31/10 - 88
REG - 10/15/10 - 95

[whonis2002]

So if am taking FAR on 8/31 what wave will I fall under??

[italianCPA]

Wave 2 for sure. It's the last day of the testing window. Wave 1 scores will be out sometimes around Aug 20, I think….

FAR - 7/26/10 - 95
AUD - 8/10/10 - 88
BEC - 8/31/10 - 88
REG - 10/15/10 - 95

[Anonymous]

So I took BEC back in May, and passed, but I am in this prep class for my masters that is helping prepare me for FAR, but the class is also for BEC, our only grade in this class is from two mock exams…they are exact replicas of the real exams…I take the FAR one this Friday but I do not take the real FAR exam for 2 weeks from that date, then I have to take the BEC mock a week from Friday. So that is pretty much 3 CPA exams in the next 3 weeks. I feel good about the FAR mock coming up, but how would yall prep for the BEC if you already took it but feel real shady on the topics and still have to study for the real FAR exam. Any tips? I was planning on doing a turbo final review that involved skimming the 5 chapters and doing as many, since some sections have 500 questions I can't do them all, MC as I possibly can, while still doing final review for FAR…sound good? Any ideas or tips would be greatly appreciated!

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