[kmwgrace]

I’m not normally selfish or competitive but I feel that this forum is giving me a slight edge and I need any edge I can get. I’ll share once I pass, but until then I want to keep my ball in my yard, so to speak… is that wrong?

~ Kate... MTX!
CPA exam on hold while I homeschool my 6 year old!

[Minimorty]

@katie – You still won't admit that you are not compared to other test takers within the same window?

[Anonymous]

Wait, @Mini–We're not compared with the people taking it in the same score release? How do they do the curve?

[Minimorty]

@hopeful – Catch up on this thread and then let me know where you stand and if you have questions:

https://www.another71.com/cpa-exam-forum/topic/rank-the-sections-from-most-curved-to-least-curved

[Anonymous]

oh goodness.

So, do they do that 42-50% pass each score release (3 times a window) or overall?

[Minimorty]

They release those stats per quarter.

[Anonymous]

so there really is no better time to take it is there? You're already predetermined to pass or fail based on the questions you answer correctly. It has nothing to do with how others do on the same questions that quarter. It's if you answer questions worth more points correctly.

How do they go about determining a grade to give you? is there a certain number of points that equates to a 75? If you accumulate that many points by answering enough hard questions correctly, you pass?

Are there any factors that go into determining when you'd have better luck of passing in a quarter?

[Minimorty]

Right, it really doesnt matter what window you take the test or whether you should take it at the start or end of the window. All of that talk is nonsense. You should take the test when you are ready.

Admittedly, we dont know exactly how a score of 77 or 81 is determined. I still think it is straight point accumulation. Pre-test questions are eliminated, giving you a certain amount of available points. If you do well on the first test, more points are available to you because you will have harder questions. That being said, the AICPA knows that you will not do as well on a harder testlet so the more points available is slightly off-set by harder questions. The AICPA has plenty of data to formulate an exam to give them the results they need.

[Anonymous]

A single guy wants to bust a move on a single girl who is studying for the CPA. TELL HER 🙂 Adds to the points he gets with her.

[Poohjure]

Perhaps I got a little overly frustrated. I apologize if anyone took offense to my reaction.

I have always believed in being a role model for my fellow students or colleagues. If I have knowledge about something that will ultimately make someone else's life easier then I'm going to do everything that I can to share that information with as many people as possible. I regularly volunteer to give talks to local accounting groups and other organizations.

In my opinion, there is far less enjoyment celebrating the successful completion of a section of the exam if the gross majority of your colleagues failed to achieve the same result. Perhaps this is just my opinion.

Again, sorry if I offended!

B - 77
A - 72, 74, 74
R - 88
F - 61

[Anonymous]

@Poohjure..it's ok man…no worries…we still love you cuz we r a happy cyber family…we may throw shit sometimes, but hey! b kool and stay in skool!

[kmwgrace]

I wasn't offended at all, obviously I'm having an inner struggle about this. Thanks for the input. 🙂

~ Kate... MTX!
CPA exam on hold while I homeschool my 6 year old!

[Anonymous]

i can totally understand that you want to keep it as a secret 😀

[Justinnnn]

Competitive advantage if you are smart enough to overlook the wrong answers people give in some of the threads.

REG 80 2/7/11
FAR 91 10/8/11
AUD 97 11/22/11
BEC 96 2/4/12

CPA 3/15/13

[SIMSLAYER]

kmwgrace- I love this post, so I guess Hiiia-yah!!!

It's nice to not acknowledge our own pettiness sometimes and think of ourselves as being above certain behaviors/attitudes. But I (I believe like you) like to be honest with myself. I am not above feeling jealous, envious, competetive, etc. I typically don't like like feeling these things, but if I acknowledge them I can at least talk sense to myself and reduce/eliminate them.

I struggle with myself in dealing with one person in particular with regard to the Exam. One part of me wants to be helpful, and one part of me doesn't want to be too helpful. It's like I have to research things and figure things out myself and it's a struggle, and then I just spoon feed all of this info/insight to this other person.

I am finding this to be the case at work now as well. I had to struggle for years figuring things out with no training, instruction, mentoring, heads-up, etc. Whenever we get a new person I find myself giving him/her all kinds of tips, heads-up, insight, watch out for this, look out for that, etc. Then, in the back of my mind I'm saying why am I making this so easy for this person when I had to stuggle and agonize. This person is going to make it look like a breeze, as opposed to me who took another 1/2 inch off of his hairline trying to figure this stuff out.

FAR- 81
AUD- 93
BEC- 79
REG-

[Anonymous]

Haha this thread made me chuckle. I guess I'm torn…I'm SUPER competitive (no surprise there), but I'm also pretty helpful to my friends. So I guess it would depend on WHO was asking me. When I was in college, I definitely wouldn't help some random classmate, but if it was one of my friends, I'd hook him/her up. I'm not sure how much of a competitive advantage this site is, but it certainly can't hurt to tap the community for answers when you're stuck. I don't think you're weird for not wanting to share your “trade secrets” with random people, but if your friends are asking you and you're still playing it close to the vest, well, then you're kind of a jerk lol. Just depends how good of friends these people are. Good luck!

[Author]

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