[mgoloubenko]

Hey everyone,

Hope you’re all having a lovely night, or day depending on where you may be. So I have started my journey towards hopefully becoming a CPA in the near future! I decided to begin with FAR since it was the subject matter that I really felt the most intimidated about and I didn’t want to go through all the remaining sections with FAR still hanging over my head. I have been taking live classes with Becker since January 21st, and just finished F5 which I do find somewhat confusing- but not nearly as bad as I had expected. I have been staying on top of the class schedule by doing all of the required homework. I have not been doing very well ( 50%-70%) on the homework, which I understand is fairly normal. My concern so far is that although I can get through the homework and figure out the patterns of the questions, it is hard for me to assess whether or not I am actually learning the material and if I would know how to do it if it was twisted around. I’m also worried that I’m learning how to get to the correct answer without really understanding the background of some of these nitty gritty concepts. Did you feel this way about the Becker questions? My classes finish Feb. 25th but I am not prepared to take it at the end of February so I am aiming for early April.

FAR 4/9/12- PASSED
BEC 7/13/12- PASSED
AUD 8/16/12- Ughhh 71, Rematch: 90!!!
REG-12/6/12 PASSED

USC MAcc- Fight on!

They say good things come to those who wait, but only those things that are left by those who hustle.

[Anonymous]

Yes I feel that way with my Yaeger Homestudy DVD's. A whopping 15 DVD's plus around 20-50 assigned MCQ's per module. It is really difficult to not look at the answer after trying on your own to answer the questions for about 2 minutes. I'm thinking to myself, if it's taking me over 2 minutes just to begin my attempt at answering the question after reviewing the same material over and over again, how I'm I going to do on exam day when I have a timer working against me. Not good. The only thing I can say is practice it until your blue in the face. That seems to be a common answer on this forum. It's hard b/c each MCQ is a different set of circumstances a lot of the times. After 4 months of reviewing FAR material, I started to understand most of the material and actually learn it, but then there's the extra obstacle of answering the MCQ's in a fast enough time so that you don't spend 2 hours on a testlet of 30 MCQ's on exam day. That's what pisses me off, the unfair amount of time to answer these questions on exam day. Just reduce the amount questions so candidates don't have to guess so much and feel totally clueless on how they scored after walking out the testing center. I swear almost everyone on this forum who talks about their experience all say, they're pretty sure they failed, and then when they finally get their scores 3-4 weeks later they are shocked as hell that they actually passed. It's because how crazy their grading and curving system is. No one knows for sure how the darn exam is graded. It's definitely curved in some way but there's a million different ways you can curve this exam. Also, 20% of the entire exam are pretest questions, so you can never waste more than 3-4 minutes max on a single MCQ b/c you may be wasting your time on a question that doesn't even count. It's a mind f@$.

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