I'm only studying one section at a time and that's absolutely the best approach for me, personally. I'll put in 2 (BEC & AUD) this next window, but that's as much as I'm willing to do in one test window. I probably sacraficed 15 hrs or so a week for 10 weeks to get though FAR and I have a wife, a more than full time job, a dog and a house to take care of.
Here's how I passed FAR. I used Yaegar's lectures and made sure I watched all the videos and took extensive notes on how the instructor approached the different types of problems. I frequently paused and rewound the lecture a minute or two if I didn't completely understand what was going on or if I let my mind drift for a few seconds. My problem solving method would quite often differ from the instructor's when I went though to do the assigned questions myself, but I learned how to apply the concepts in a way that made sense to me nevertheless. I would do all the assigned MCQ's diligently and make sure to mark the ones I had difficulty with. I did the SIMS somewhat diligently, but have to admit I skipped over (or just half a$$ed) quite a bit. I completely ignored the written comm. I have pretty good BS skills and was confident that I'd know enough about the topic to hit enough of the keywords to get my answer graded. Plus, I tend to write very well. I finished my review with about a week and half to spare and went back over every single MCQ that had been assigned, once again making sure to really look at the ones I had issues with.
Hope this helps someone….
FAR, 7/10/10 82
BEC, 10/01/10
AUD, 11/29/10
REG, Jan 2011 (no extra written comm for me, thanks)
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