[sarah210]

So, I’ve just finished my first week of Becker online. I watched R1 & R2, worked all the problems, took the quizzes, etc. When I was watching the lectures, I took a ton of detailed notes, rather than highlighting in the book. I don’t start the next lectures until Monday. I have all of today free and part of tomorrow, and I’m wondering how best to use my time.

Here are my options:

1. Type my notes so I can rewrite them more easily during my review time at the end of June

2. Re-watch the lectures, this time highlighting and marking in the book

3. Rework the MCQs

(Overall, I’m pretty comfortable with individual tax. Very uncomfortable with corporate/partnership, see score below.)

Also, can I just gush for a minute about how much better Becker is than my half-a$$ed attempt to study on my own with just the Bisk books (which are fine as supplemental, but I couldn’t make it work as core material).

REG- 53, 91
BEC- 88
FAR- 62, 85
AUD- 85

Ethics- 93

[Tina82]

The best use of your time will be to focus on partnership/corporate – your weak areas. If you're comfortable with individual you'll be wasting your time this early in your studies (final review would probably suffice). It sounds like common sense, but from my own experience I tend to shy away from what I don't get by saying I just don't get it. When you take time and really drill down in those areas it will make sense eventually (doing that right now myself for BEC).

R - 74;88
A - 84
B - 74;89
F - no study = 67; May 15 = 87 & done

[MadOak]

I think R3 was one of the biggest chapters and took the most time to work through (R3 & R4 if I'm not mistaken, really lightens up for the last 4 after that) , so if you have access to the lecture, I would just keep forging ahead and get started on that. I use self-study so I'm not sure how online Becker is set-up. If no access… rework questions and enjoy the summer weather (hopefully where you are too:).

FAR - 04/03/12 - 86 (studied 7 weeks)
REG - 05/03/12 - 86 (studied 3.5 weeks)
AUD - 05/30/12 - 73 (studied 2 weeks, guess it wasn't quite enough :()
AUD - 07/19/12 - 81
BEC - 08/31/12 - 78 (studied 6 weeks while working)

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[MadOak]

Oh, and by the way, with Becker, if you can work and rework the questions and take the time to read through each answer after you click (right and wrong selections), even if you get the question right, they do a really nice job at explaining why an answer is wrong and that helped me to drive home some of those concepts that kept alluding me. For me, this was far more useful of my time than rereading the book. Good luck!

FAR - 04/03/12 - 86 (studied 7 weeks)
REG - 05/03/12 - 86 (studied 3.5 weeks)
AUD - 05/30/12 - 73 (studied 2 weeks, guess it wasn't quite enough :()
AUD - 07/19/12 - 81
BEC - 08/31/12 - 78 (studied 6 weeks while working)

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[Tux]

It's a great idea to type your notes!

I would suggest doing that, then like MadOak suggested, move forward with the next section. Although you may have breezed through the first 2 chapters, inevitably, one or more sections will give you more trouble and take more time that you expect or would like. So, move ahead and you'll see that any “extra time” you have now, will easily get eaten up later.

FAR - 86 - 2/27/14
AUD - 75 - 5/29/14
BEC - 80 - 8/31/14
REG - 89 - 2/27/15
Praise Jesus! I'm done!!

Study resources:
Becker
Wiley test bank

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