[PrinceofDubtown]

So I’m studying for FAR with a test date in the third week of April, using becker. I’m wondering if a) I need to purchase supplementary materials and b) which ones? My boss recommends the becker final review, however, it’s pretty expensive and from what I can see includes a lot of supplementary lecture…I am grasping the subject matter pretty well (my university does a good job of teaching to the exam), and would really only buy it for the extra problems. Is Wiley test bank a better option, then? Or if I am doing okay on the Becker problems in the software, would you guys recommend I just use those and not worry about supplementary materials? I know some people end up doing fine using just Becker.

FAR - 92 (7/13)
AUD - 98 (10/13)
REG - 92 (7/14)
BEC - 95 (8/14)

[Anonymous]

If you have a strong grasp of the material and are doing fine with just the Becker software I think that you will be fine. I felt that it was more than adequate because it had around 1800 questions I think. Just keep plugging along with solely the Becker software.

[higher_flyer]

I ‘m sure that the vast majority of people who use only Becker will say it is more than sufficient. There is a ton of material after all. But personally, I find the repetition of questions annoying, and I frequently recognize/memorize the MCQ's if I do them more than once. For relatively little money, I think the Wiley test bank is an excellent supplement — many new questions and simulations, and a great stats display which illustrates your strong and weak areas.

I haven't looked at the Final Review products, but I wouldn't spend an extra second on watching more lectures. It's all about practicing questions and sims.

REG 95 Aug '12
FAR 95 Dec '12
AUD 99 Apr '13
BEC 94 Jul '13
CA PETH 94 Oct '13

[rdrunner]

Keep in mind that the progress tests will throw new MC questions at you. I didn't use the final review and felt well prepared. I would skip the final review and just do MC questions all day. There are several hundred MC questions for each chapter that you can access through the progress test. I would do them in blocks of 20 for each chapter individually. Then do a comprehensive test with maybe 5 or 6 problems per chapter. This way you can go through multiple topics in a short amount of time and you get to see what you got right or wrong fairly quick. I didn't find it too helpful to do a test that takes 2 or 3 hours to complete without knowing if I was on the right track or not as I went through it.

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