[jdiiorio]

Heyyy! I’ve been gone for a while now mostly because I had been traveling for work and studying tons for Audit and just thought I would be better off taking some time off from forums til I felt like I was dominating audit.

Yesterday was my second Audit take. I came out saying WTF?! But still hoping somehow I passed. Before going into my exam I had done tons and tons of practice exams with Becker, I had 3 weeks of review and to be honest I can probably have a very educated conversation about anything in the Becker book with anyone. To the point where today in a meeting as the Internal Audit VP talked about our company’s IC and Risk Assessment I could see in my head my notes, MCQ I had done in becker and the actual page this info was on. I want to say I was 99-100% prepared for this exam. I was getting very good grades in my practice exams (between 83-89). THe actual exam:

MCQ – started out relatively easy. Some questions I had already seen and others pretty straight forward. I started worrying that maybe I was not reading these correctly bc, how could this be easy? Anyway, I started over thinking questions and so I think I might have butchered some, but all in all the MCQ part did not seem extremely terrible. Wasn’t feeling that bad going into the sims.

Sims – this is where the WTF multiplied by 30 comes in. Those simulations were ridiculous. I have seen people post on here that they seemed easy and straight forward. I want to say the opposite. But maybe I am just bad at audit. I felt like they were all very specific and that the answers in the drop downs as well as the question prompts were all worded in a very complex way. I had to read them over and over again to at least try to figure out how to take an educated guess. I think I must have done awful in at least 3 or 4 of these sims. In my opinion 2010 sims were a much better way of testing audit knowledge. I wouldn’t say the material itself was something I had never seen, but the way the questions were written was really hard for me to even know how to respond.

No Written Part – this to me was a curse. I have been told at work and by professors that I have pretty good writing skills, especially for someone with little “work experience” (just graduated). Anyway. I am annoyed at this because I really think this saved me a couple times through the exam. I could have used some extra points there.

So that is my exam/vent experience. I have to say that I am still hoping that I passed. I don’t know that I can take this exam a third time. Bc I KNOW this stuff, maybe I am not a good test taker or what not. But a third time. I don’t think I could possible look at this audit book one more time. Its also very discouraging that I just saw the post on exam passing rates going down =( I almost wished I hadn’t read that. jajaja Now I feel like if I had a chance they will probs just flunk me anyway.

On that note… Did everyone else think AUD was “easier” this year?

ILLINOIS CANDIDATE
FAR - Passed
BEC - Passed
AUD - Passed

[rknight21]

someone else posted that they took it yesterday also and thought it was way too easy… sinc eu had a hard time with the sim i must ask… what review course did u use for the sim's? i am using wiley and a few ppl have said that wiley sims mirrors it alot

[jdiiorio]

I used becker 🙁 I thought the becker sims were way easier than the exam ones. I was starting to wonder if maybe they weren't representative enough.

Although like I said the material covered wasn't unfamiliar, it was more the way they worded them and the length of the drop down answers. Also the difficulty of the prompts. I don't know how to explain without being specific. I just definitely think the becker ones were easier.

ILLINOIS CANDIDATE
FAR - Passed
BEC - Passed
AUD - Passed

[rknight21]

i understand.. someone posted a few days or weeks ago saying the same thing that becker did a poor job in the sim's area…. it is the first year they are doing sims this way, maybe becker just got it incorrect. i have been using wiley sims and they are similiar to the sample sims on aicpa.org so i feel a bit confident what to expect on monday… wish me luck and goodluck too on your grade….

my goal is to get 80 out of 90 mcq. that gives me 54% and then all i need on the sims is 21% on the sims meaning i can actually bomb 2 of the sims (which i wont do)… i am just assessing the worse case scenario….i have done so much mcq that i am ready to puke… monday cannot come any sooner

[jdiiorio]

sounds like a plan.. good luck!

ILLINOIS CANDIDATE
FAR - Passed
BEC - Passed
AUD - Passed

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