[whitesoxfancpa]

I have seen so many posts of people who are worrying they failed because their testlets did not get harder.

STOP!

Don’t think about it. Ever. Not before the exam, not after the exam, and certainly not during the exam. Just take the test and don’t think about it!

What’s hard for you may not be hard for others and vice versa.

You will get easy questions even in a hard testlet. You will get hard questions even in an easy (“medium”) testlet.

If you know the material well, none of it will seem especially harder than others.

You may get questions that the AICPA considers “hard” that were covered in detail in your review program that were a piece of cake for you.

You may get questions that the AICPA considers “easy” that were not covered in your review program at all.

Stop driving yourselves nuts! You CAN pass if your testlets did not seem to get harder. I did on my first two exams.

I took three exams so far:

AUD – all testlets seemed about the same – scored a 96

FAR – all testlets seemed about the same – scored a 95

REG – second and third testlets were way more difficult – waiting on score

REG is my weakest area of the three, so I expect it to be more difficult.

The bottom line is that I performed extremely well on two tests in which I thought the second and third testlets did not get harder. If that happened to me, it can happen to any other candidate as well.

Take a deep breath and enjoy the score release wait!

AUD 96 FAR 95 REG 94 BEC 88

[financeguy]

Manny is so weird…he was worth putting up w/ his weird antics in his prime, but once he got busted for roids he hasn't been so great.

AUD - 81, BEC - 74, 80, FAR - 82, REG - 81
Done!

[whitesoxfancpa]

Last season: .914 OPS

This season: .949 OPS

Manny is still a tremendous hitter.

AUD 96 FAR 95 REG 94 BEC 88

[geaux11]

Manny is one of my favorite hitters of all time (this coming from a Yankees fan). He is still a tremendous hitter, but he's only played 134 out of ~297 games in the last two years.

AUD: 95 (7/14/10)
REG: 94 (7/22/10)
BEC: 87 (7/29/10)
FAR: 95 (8/12/10)

[financeguy]

yeah he is a tremendous hitter still, but not worth the money that the dodgers paid for him imo

I'm an A's fan…I would love to have manny…he is one of my favorite players to watch. Haha remember when he cut of the throw from center field?

AUD - 81, BEC - 74, 80, FAR - 82, REG - 81
Done!

[Jason]

Hi guys,

Basically the test difficulty from what I've experienced is the harder testlets have about 2 or 3 super long questions that are difficult and a maybe 3 or 4 tricky ones, and the rest of the questions are the same. It doesn't mean the whole testlet will be hard. If you get a testlet near the end that has a few questions that are like two paragraphs then you are doing well on the exam. However, do not worry about it during the test just answer the question in front of you to the best of your ability.

I was worried about test difficulty during BEC, and come to find out after that the exam wasn't even adaptive. You can see that I did not do well on BEC. So please, Do not test your nerves during the test just do the best that you can. If you put in the time, you will come up with the right answer.

FAR 81, BEC 75, AUDIT 92 ,Reg 88

[Pray4theCPA]

I definitely was thinking how the second testlet was easier and it got to me.

I took FAR today and I am sure I did not pass based on the easy difficulty of the second and third testlet. Regardless, I'm still hoping and praying for the best.

I'll be studying for BEC until I get my results, May 27.

Ugh.

FAR - 83
BEC - 81
AUD - 74,93
REG - 75

Becker Self Study & Becker Final Review

[MaLoTu]

@whitesoxfan – Good Luck on REG! You are on the path to that Elijah Watts award if those are your first attempts!

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