[CPA Dex]

I’ve been reading posts for the past 3 months and have started noticing something. Someone will ask this same question about once a week, “how will I do if I do all the MCQs from Wiley and/or Becker?” And out of 10 responses, half of them will say, “if you do the review questions, you will be fine because the actual exam questions are easier than your review questions.” And then the other half of the replies will say, “I did all the review questions 900 times from Yaeger, Wiley, Roger, Becker, Jeff, Google, Facebook, Encyclopedia, etc and still failed. Those questions were impossible.”

Ok, how can there be such a difference of opinion? I mean, I can see it varying a little but there seems to be no grey area. I don’t believe it to be true that person A passes the exam by only practicing some review questions and person B fails after practicing and then says the exam is nothing like what they were prepared for. Either the exam is similar to the review questions or it is not. Does not make sense my friends!!

I guess I will find out in 1 hour. Taking my first exam today.

[Minimorty]

Good luck! Let us know which category you fit into.

[mla1169]

Its very simple. What works well for one person doesn't necessarily work well for another. You and I could study together daily, do all of the same things at the same time, completely mirror one another. And at the end, I could fail and you could pass. Some people are visual learners, some are auditory…etc. Some people get more inference out of each question than others do.

FAR- 77
AUD -49, 71, 84
REG -56,75!
BEC -75

Massachusetts CPA (non reporting) since 3/12.

[Anonymous]

Because each exam is different….

[sbruce810]

This thread brings me back to a Chemistry class I took years ago. My lab partner did all the experiments and I would take his results and do all the calculations. He used to get extremely mad that I would get much better scores than him when he was doing all the work. My point being that someone could do 1000 questions and not be comfortable with the material while another person could do 100 questions and breeze right along.

AUD - Passed
BEC - Passed
FAR - Passed
REG - Passed

Done

[jenuno01]

Because on exam date…it's either your know your shtuff or you don't, you can either function well in a highly stressful 3-4 exam, or you can't. Doesn't matter how many hours you blew or how many thousands of MCQ's you did.

Class of 2012

[Anonymous]

@OP – Because I believe the people who did “900” questions and get 95% of them right all the time are to a degree just subconsiously memorizing the answers and not actually understanding WHY the answer is right and WHY the others are wrong. I do it sometimes myself, that's why using multiple testbanks helps. Just to get another perspective on what you know.

Plus opinions are like a**holes and everyone's got one! (and think theirs don't stink…)

[jeff]

Let me know which half are wrong and I'll cull the herd.

Jeff Elliott, CPA (KS) | Another71 | NINJA CPA | NINJA CMA | NINJA CPE

[RedRage00]

I don't think people study as much as they claim they do on here. I'm not trying to be an ass or arrogant because I'm done, but I remember reading blogs where people would mention they didn't study because of a college football game or some other lame reason. That's the reason why you're not passing! You have to totally give up your life and focus! I love college football and I missed the entire season, except for the National Championship game.

People need to sit down and be honest with themselves. Did you really focus while doing all 900 Wiley MCQs? Or were you watching Alabama-LSU while studying?

Texas CPA
Licensed, March 2012

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