I recently took FAR on the 18th of November and what I felt worked for me was this:
I assume you are using becker as did I.
1. Watch the lecture, and take notes during it in your book (I suggest underlining/highlighting anything they do since in step 5 you use them). if anything is confusing do not move on until you understand it unless u deem it as a part you're going to guess on (only have maybe 1 of these for the entire FAR book)
2. at the end of the chapter do all the passmaster questions, and if you have time do all the supplemental quesitons as well. once u finish those, redo the ones u got wrong until u get all of them right. After this do the simulation that becker has for the chapter
3. after all the passmaster quetsions and sim, go thru the end of chapter quetsions usually 15-20. these should be easy since u did them in your lecture, but they help solidify the material.
4. move on to next chapter.
5. take about 4-5 days before the test to review the entire book, starting at chapter one, skim the book reading all the underlined/highlighted stuff and then doing the 15-20 problems at the end of the chapter making sure you get them all correct.
6. if you have time you can do more problems from the becker software or practice sims. I suggest get an understanding of the research/memos at least.
each chapter lecture took me about 6-7 hours to get thru cuz i would stop and jot stuff down/study stuff i didnt understand and the review took about 1.5-3 hours per chapter the few days b4 the test. When i took the exam the MC questions were very easy following this strategy. also dont skip over the government/non profit stuff there were a lot of questions on this stuff, but only learn the basics since the questions dont go that in depth.
I also know that reviewing the previous chapters every 3 chapters thing helps sum people but since i had no time to do this i used my technique…i was doing studied my brains out doing 3 chapters a week while working.
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