[Anonymous]

Hi all,

I finally finished my CPA journey. I can’t believe until now that I passed the FAR, and that I finish all the sections in one try.

If you remember, I used to post my crying that “I’d fail for sure”. Supprisingly, I received 26 sharings from you guys all over that I can name some here, POTATOGUN, DAN, 2010PLEASE, CPA SOMEDAY, HERBERT7890, WHITESOXFANCPA, TREVOR, GCAULFIE, FARBEHIND, GABE1475, JAN_IN_WI, KEEPON, on and on. I wish that I have alll of your email so that I could send you each thank-you letter. I still remmbered that I felt so devastated after the exam, but all of your sharing and encouragements made me relieve a lot, and I lived in that hope. Withouut those encouragement and sharing, I might reschedule for next year retake. And the hope came true. OMG, I passed. And now, I know I owe you guys my special thank.

My experience:

This forum is really helpful. I study some questions that people bring up. Their explanations are better than in Becker some way. I also learned from how the exam was structured. But please do not rely on it, b/c each person has different exam. Some people say their exams was theoretical, i studied theory a lot, but then it turned out that mine exam was most computational. I made 86!!! .

I know I have luck, because I can only finish 4 tabs out of 10 tabs in in 2 SIMs.

But, I do believe that if you spend time studying, you will succeed. For me, I studied like crazy, my life for 8 months are only work and study: get off from work at 5 and study thru 12, and extra hours during weekend ( I don’t have kids yet, but will after this year 🙂 Try to make use of your time, even 30 m lunch, I go over flashcards. Even at my job, while some workers have conversation, I stay away from that conversation and read the notes, and flashcards instead. All of my scores are not in 90s like WHITESOXFANCPA, or POTATOGUN ( I really admire them), but from 81 to 86, which are too perfect for me. For other sections that require memorization, don’t be whining that ” im not good at memorizing” You still can memorize everthing as long as you spend time “absorbing” it. Write notes and stick them where it catches your eyes. I even put them around my computers at work, at home.

So my general rule of thumb: get whatever time you have. Study it more, and you will be successful.

Again, I’m thankful to all people sharing with me for the past 8 months on this forum.

Annie

[jeff]

congrats!

[2010Please]

Congratulations annie!

It sounds like you did a great job on your computational problems…if you knock the socks off the MCQ, you are 70% of the way home…and it sounds like you still pulled another 16% off of those nasty, nasty simulations!. Celebrate – you've earned it!!

AUD 92, REG 85, BEC 90, FAR 85
Ethics 100
Obtained License 7/11/11 🙂

[magic_8_ball_did_i_pass]

Congrats…some very wise lyrics from MPoni's siggy line, now applies to you. “I wanna celebrate and live my life, saying aye oh baby lets go.”

IL - BECKER=============> DONE
REG - 80; FAR - 65,79; AUD - 53,78; BEC - 71,68, 75 (used becker and yaeger for 3rd BEC)Ethics 95

I'M GONNA CELEBRATE AND LIVE MY LIFE SAYING AYE OH BABY LETS GO!!!!!

[potatogun]

Welp, I made annie a liar…hah.

Good luck with your future endeavors

FAR 92 - AUD 91 - REG 94 - BEC 86

[Anonymous]

CONGRATS!! i FOUND OUT I PASSED FAR TODAY… 75% CPA!! !

[tax_vixen]

well done 🙂

now go find Olinto, he owes you a cup of coffee!

AUD - 92 :: REG - 99 :: FAR - 92 :: BEC - 82

[Anonymous]

congrats, annie…you deserve it!!! Me and you are finally done with this journey!!!!

[herbert7890]

I'm very happy for you Annie! I hope to pass them all like you. This forum is great for that support you cant really find elsewhere, since we are all having the same pains, the same tragedy.

FAR 88 - BEC 86 - AUD 90 - REG 85

[whitesoxfancpa]

Way to go, Annie! Congratulations!

AUD 96 FAR 95 REG 94 BEC 88

[obie813]

@annie- Congrats. That must be sucha great feeling not to mention a huge accomplishment. I failed FAR the first time and just retook it a few weeks ago. Leaving the testing center I yet again felt defeated. However, your description of how the test went for you definitely gives me hope. I felt pretty good about MC's (good first testlet, Hard second testlet, and thirs testlet was so-so). However, I too was only abel to finish 4 tabs of the 2 total sims (got both written communications done and two tabs in the first simulation). I think my score should be released in wave 2 so im hopefull and keeping my fingers crossed!!

[MPoni123]

Congrats Annie!

LOL @ magic 8 ball did i pass!! That song lyric will apply to everybody once they pass all 4 sections! 🙂 Everytime I hear that song, it always reminds me of what I went through and how happy I am to be DONE!! Freedom is awesome!

AUD - 84; REG - 90; BEC - 79; FAR - 75; ALL DONE!!

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