[mulligan]

Does anyone else feel that FAR is so much information and regardless of how long you study you can never master it all or feel comfortable with it?

Also, it doesn’t help that football season is here =)

FAR 10/18 - 81 | BEC 10/26 - 83 | AUD 11/29 - 80
REG 02/28 - 71, MULLIGAN 05/19 NTS 4503

[Oceanman]

Ha ya I can definately agree with that. I am a huge fan of my college team and an NFL fan too. On Sunday I found the NFL Redzone channel and 3 hours went by way too quickly, I wouldn't reccomend this channel to someone that has to study on the weekends (although I admit that it is awesome). Let's just say my weekend studying in general has been pretty poor.

But yeah in answer to your question sometimes I feel the same way. Like today I spent 5 hrs only on Deferred taxes and I still dont think I have it down. By the time I got to pensions I was brain dead.

Like you, this will be the first part that I have taken so its hard to gauge exactly what the test will be like or what to expect. But I say to hang in there and get as much done as you can every day and just try and learn as much as possible. You have been tested on most of this stuff already and it will come back to you with repitition.

What program are you studying with? Im using Becker. The MC questions can be very frustrating to say the least but you have to keep doing them bc they do help you learn the small rules and especially the terms to look out for.

Anyway good luck and no, you're not alone, this exam kicks my ass every day and I go looking for more the next morning.

FAR-92
AUD-94
REG-87
BEC-(April)

[nolifecpa]

just the post i needed to read, i just got done with a bunch of mcq from becker F3 and i feel defeated. i went to the live class, viewed some of the cd lecture, read the book and still can't get most of the answers right. it may also be due to the fact that it's 2am and i'm brain dead at this point, can barely type this post…i will be getting my ass kicked again tomorrow as well…lol!!

i'm with you guys

REG-65,71,74,73,70,74,79
BEC-60's,60's,69,71,76*,78
FAR-67,66,65,79
AUD-54,60's,65,83*,69,80
*expired

DONE

[vukz]

I have found especially with FAR that you have to pick and choose your battles….there is such a wide range of topics to understand that you really cant be expected to know all of them like the back of your hand….that being said I felt my time was better used to understand a particular section more in depth than tyring to hit all sections….I totally skipped Pensions mainly because I cannot stand them….and I focused more in depth in other areas….if something is going to take 8 hours to understand or you can spend those 8 hours to really get in depth on maybe 4 sections…I would vote for learning the sections more in depth….basically the more bang for your buck theory

FAR (75)
AUD (76)
BEC (75)
REG (72), (80)

[75 CPA]

FAR Study Tips

1. Don't leave a chapter until you know it. Understanding the rules and concepts first!

2. Please take practice tests and time yourself.

3. Make your OWN note cards.

4. Keep doing the multiple choice questions until you are scoring in the 80's and 90's.

5. Regardless of what study system you use, if you see a crazy MCQ, learn to love them and not stray away from them.

6. YOU MUST be well-rounded with your knowledge for the exam. Do not skip anything!

7. Anything that you didn't a chance to go over, I want you to read about the topic and stop doing calculations. Even If you haven't physically taken the time to number crunch, you will be able to handle yourself on the exam because you understand the theory behind it. TRUST ME ON THIS….if you can't trust yourself!

8. You will be tested over and over with different concepts and mixed together (not nice and neat questions put together) to see if you really understand your theory. The best analogy I can come up with is in REG there is bankruptcy law. You have to understand who gets paid first to last. What I'm trying to say is… you have to know the material in FAR sort of like that. It's a building block of rules.

9. Being a mechanical dummy will not get you through the exam. You can't just go through Becker, Gleim, whoever's MCQ's and just read a question and answer it. If you get it right, moving along to the next. If you see a choice that looks “interesting” but wrong, take the time to investigate it and find out why it's wrong. If are really stuck between two answers and you happen to get the right answer, don't move on! Take the time to read why your second choice was wrong. It's very tricky.

10. THEORY, THEORY, THEORY! THIS IS THE SHORT CUT MY FRIEND!

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