[Anonymous]

I felt like a lump of coal…..it was insult on top of mental injury better yet I felt like I was tossed into a den of starving lions covered in chicken blood

no breaks almost none what so ever even easy crap they made me doubt….this is got to be some cruel joke

[Anonymous]

I complained on the test before to and I got a 79 so who knows

[Patrick909]

LOL – in my first section, REG, I absolutely went off on the AICPA in my comments section. I called them out on their horribly worded questions and the fact that they kept hitting certain topics over and over again. I criticized them relentlessly, and I can't say I was that nice about it, either. I still passed.

[No Life Now]

Thanks to all who wished me good luck, but WOW – this was a monster. I was so upset after I started through the second testlet – it was unreal. I felt like just leaving, but I trudged onward. It got no better. The memos weren't bad, and the research was easier than usual, but the rest of the exam wasn't what I'd hoped, and obviously not what I'd studied, either. Too many things that made you second guess yourself or wonder if it was relevant information.

It sucks that you don't feel like they are testing your accounting knowledge, but rather your ability to remember things that in practice, you just look up. God I know I'm old, but the calculator function isn't like being at your desk.

When I left the REGS exam, I would have bet that I got in the 60's. At this point in my life, I will simply pray that a 75 comes up next to my name. I can't bear the thought of sitting for this section again! Ugh!!!! I don't get this time back in my life, and I feel so bad that so many people are subjected to this. Best of luck to everyone here as the scores begin to trickle in in late December. Christmas will be one of two extremes for me – I just hope I don't have to use beer to dull the pain!

REG - 86 (5/18/09)
BEC - 79 (7/06/09)
AUD - 81 (8/24/09)

[shikhye]

question to all,

I thought I was well prepared for FAR but after taking the test, I feel like I bombed it. FAR is my last test (I passed all the others in one try.. not bragging.. was lucky in at least one of them), but I never felt so terrible coming out of the test until I took FAR. As people said, the first mc was hard the second was ridiculous, and the third was a little better but still ridiculous. My biggest problem though was with the sims. I thought both my sims were pretty tough. The first one had tabs with topics I have never seen before in my review books, the second one had problems that kept me second guessing, eventually I just left them blank. I also couldn't finish the writing portion on one of them because I ran out of time.

Anyways, my question is, do candidates in the same wave get the same sims? It seems to me that a lot of people felt that the sims were better. Some even though it was really easy. This was completely different from my experience. I just had no idea with some of the tabs. I am just hoping that some of us got harder sims, but from what I know only the mcq are adaptive and the sims are not. I am confused and frightened! haha.

[shikhye]

question to all,

I thought I was well prepared for FAR but after taking the test, I feel like I bombed it. FAR is my last test (I passed all the others in one try.. not bragging.. was lucky in at least one of them), but I never felt so terrible coming out of the test until I took FAR. As people said, the first mc was hard the second was ridiculous, and the third was a little better but still ridiculous. My biggest problem though was with the sims. I thought both my sims were pretty tough. The first one had tabs with topics I have never seen before in my review books, the second one had problems that kept me second guessing, eventually I just left them blank. I also couldn't finish the writing portion on one of them because I ran out of time.

Anyways, my question is, do candidates in the same wave get the same sims? It seems to me that a lot of people felt that the sims were better. Some even though it was really easy. This was completely different from my experience. I just had no idea with some of the tabs. I am just hoping that some of us got harder sims, but from what I know only the mcq are adaptive and the sims are not. I am confused and frightened! haha.

[No Life Now]

Not sure if I'm qualified to answer – Jeff knows, but here is my understanding.

No – just because you're in the same wave as other candidates doesn't mean you get the same SIMS. I thought the SIMS were hard too. Some of the material being tested was nowhere to be found in my study materials – not even a hint of it, and I loved my materials. Maybe it's a good sign that the SIMS were more difficult, although I sure didn't feel good about mine, either. In a couple of the tabs, if you missed the first calculation, you automatically missed the remaining calculations. That seems a little harsh.

I made the comment above that one of the memos didn't seem all that related to anything I've studied in this or the prior three exams. But I winged it anyway, and I hope I didn't misinterpret what they were looking for. We just need to relax and hope that we are over reacting to our bad experience!

REG - 86 (5/18/09)
BEC - 79 (7/06/09)
AUD - 81 (8/24/09)

[shaina0707]

shikhye,

I took my exam last week and I can promise you that my simulations on FAR were the worst ones I have dealt with out of all 4 exams. Here's why:

a) I had never even seen some of the types of questions they were asking or some of the accounts

b) there were a minimum of 2 tabs on my simulations that I opened, sat back in my chair, covered my face and debated running from the room, and then kept one hand over my eyes as I randomly clicked on account names or put ‘No J/E required” as I silently prayed that I got lucky with my guesses

c) there were at least 2 OTHER tabs where I read the questions, read them again, moved on to other tabs, came back, read 3 more times, and felt like the exam writers did not speak English-obviously, I ended up leaving these blank

This was the craziest exam I have ever taken and I am praying that I somehow pass because I NEVER want to go through this again. Even my martini and dinner after the exam didn't help-I was trying to hold tears back so they wouldn't water down my vodka, which I desperately needed that night.

I hope we all get the gift of a passing score for the holidays!

[Anonymous]

well maybe I will pass I hope so; I guess I got that crazy exam like some of the others on here……..oh either way we have like 22days until grades yay……the state board received notice I tested so that is a good sign that I will be in wave 2 and the exam will not get lost

[Anonymous]

When I took FAR, I literally wanted to put my head down and cry about half way through the exam. I walked out of there feeling like I had wasted my time and money and cried all the way home. It was a nightmare. I passed with an 88! I really think that the worse you feel leaving, the better you do. For those of you waiting for a score, keep your chin up, your probably did just fine. And if for some reason you do not pass, you will survive and go one to pass another day – I did with AUD. 🙂

[Anonymous]

the multiple choice quetsions were absolute cake, though they seemed to get harder after the first extremely easy testlet so i guess i was doing well. THen the simulations came and they were out of this world. The topics and questions were unlike I had ever seen before and I thought I was going ot get a 90+ after the multiple choice and after the sims I would now feel lucky to have just passed. I didnt get one research question correct and Im sure i bombed both memos and I completely guessed on half of the other sim tabs. crossin fingers.

[StudyGirl]

I felt HORRIBLE leaving the testing center. It was like a deja vu of last time… but this time, I was so much more confused because I had put an additional month of studying into it. I seriously don't get it.

The 1st set of multiple choice was okay… only had a few that I was unsure about. whew…

2nd testlet. OUCH. what was that?? It was a bajillion times harder than the first…. that must mean that I did well on the first one, but now I have NO chance of getting a hard 3rd testlet. I had over half of the questions marked for review!

3rd testlet…. eh… not quite as hard as the 2nd, but definitely not cake either.

The simulations – why so many journal entries???? I almost cried. I clicked on the tab and my heart started racing, I started having a panic attack and had to start talking myself off my hypothetical cliff. When I finally started breathing again, the written communications weren't terrible, and the research was okay… but still… those darn journal entries. (on almost every tab) are still haunting me. haha is there a limit to how many times you can put “no entry required”?? I always feel like there's a trick question and these have got to be used somewhere! haha.

So I left the testing center… in the pouring rain… with my stomach in knots. If I pass, my life can begin again and I can finally spend time with my husband (poor guy…. we got married mid-CPA exams and I might as well be married to Becker at this point)… but if I fail…. I have the month of January to pass FAR and AUD otherwise I lose REG. ahhh….

I failed FAR last time… with a 72 and I felt the EXACT same way that I do this time… oh goodness…

All I want for Christmas…. (is my life back).

AUD - 75; REG - 79; BEC - 72,75; FAR - 72,80 - DONE!!! THANK THE LORD!!!!

[Author]

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