[Anonymous]

For those who are now done, do you remember what your reaction to each passing grade was? I certainly do.

Passed Audit– of course audit was last to be released and I actually fell asleep on my bed after a LONG day of waiting. The wife and kids were upstairs, waiting for the news. I came out and casually said “I did it, I passed”. Too far to go to get too excited, but I was pleased.

Passed BEC– I was sitting at work at my desk. I had to constrain my reaction (you know professional environment and all). I smilingly told a few corworkers.

Failed REG– REG was last to be released and was released middle of the night. I was exhausted and had to go to work, so my wife checked for me in the middle of the night. I woke up, sat up on the side of the bed having actually forgot about the release overnight. The wife had big tears in her eyes when she told me. Got up and went to work.

Passed REG– I had just landed in LAX after a blackout on the flight cross country. As soon as they said that I could use electronics I checked it while others fought to get their luggage out of the overheads. I didn’t even have to tell my boss, he could see it on my face. Definitely the happiest person on the plane.

Passed FAR– I was, once again at my desk working on close….DEC 7th. I was worried significantly about FAR but after 600 times of pressing F5 I saw that grade. All was quiet in the office, I mean dead church mouse quiet. I had planned a solemn update to friends either way. Well when that 79 popped up on the screen all sense of constraint left me. I let out a VERY loud single clap, threw both arms in the air and yelled “I’M DONE, YEEEEAH”. I nearly scared a couple coworkers to death and then I took my victory lap around the floor like a NASCAR winner. Hey I earned it. I called my wife and she burst into tears of happiness.

I can say that I really do not miss score release days, I kind of do. You will too once you get your last one, so now all I can do is live vicariously through those on this board.

[StephAV]

I'm in CA and I've received both passing scores early in the morning while laying in bed sandwiched between by kids. I passed BEC after failing FAR with a 72 and then a 74. I cried! I was shaking, tears were coming down, I was screaming (inside) just a little happy you could say. It was super early so no one was awake.

I passed FAR on my 3rd attempt with said 72 and 74, I stayed up all night. I got maybe an hour or 2 of sleep. My night was filled with Another71 and refreshing the CBA site on my phone. At 5:38 when I finally got my score I was again over come with emotion. It is just so exciting to pass.

I passed those in January then February, just 3 weeks apart. I'm having withdrawals from that feeling of accomplishment.

FAR - 7/13 - 72, 11/13- 74, 2/14- 82!!! Best score ever (for me)!!!
BEC - 1/14 - 75!!! Perfect score! First Pass! YAY!!!
AUD - 8/14 - 80!!!
REG - 5/14 - 72, 10/14 - 66, 1/15 - 78 - DONE FOREVER!!!
I did 5 of the UNA and CPAExcel classes to earn units.

[stag]

Take FAR first, since everyone said its the hardest, so I just want to get it out of the way. Spend 4 weeks going over everything on Becker; Videos, MCQs, Sims, and Practice exam. I walked out of the exam thinking I totally blew it; it so hard I thought I probably got a 60. On the score release day, since it was my first time checking score, when I saw advisory score of 87, I couldn't believe my eyes. I actually called NASBA to comfirm that advisory score IS the actual score and that it will NOT be change between then and official score release email. Looking back, it was both funny and stupid. But I was totally taken aback and never been happier in my life.

I only spent 10 days studying for REG, since I figure 87 was a overkill on FAR. The score came out in the middle of the night. My buddy called me like 2AM to tell me score came out. I was like, “WTF, now I won't be able to sleep either I passed or failed!” Since I wasn't sure about how I did on REG due to skipping 2 of the 8 chapters on REG since I only gave myself 10 days to study. I got a 81, and was more relived than happy. Besides, it was freaking 2 in the morning, I couldn't exactly jump up and down and woke everyone up.

I promised myself I would spend more time studying for BEC, but again, I got lazy and didn't start studying until 9 days before the exam, and I couldn't even move the date back since NTS would expire after that day. Again, I skipped a chapter. But I thought I did really well on the exam and had no doubt that I passed. So I wasn't nervous on the date of the score release. I got a 80; the one exam I thought I did the best actually gotten the lowest score on.

AUD was smallest in volume compare to other exams. But given that its my last one, I actually developed a plan and stuck to it: 4 hours of study time a day for 14 days. I blew through the exam in roughly hour and a half. I thought I either did really good or missed the mark entirely. People always said if the exam seem too easy, then you messed up somewhere for it to give you the easier version. I was really really really never last Friday. The fact that AUD score was the last to release didn't help the matter. My hands were literally shaken the whole time between 2 and 6pm. When I saw 88 popped on the screen, I did couple victory laps around my dinning table and my kids thought I went nuts. I was excited and relieved at the same time. Never again do I have to look those dry and boring material ever again. I think having 2-3 months between each exam probably saved my sanity. And having friends who are going through the same thing I was also helped. And thank god for this forum. Here I found many people who shared the same frustrations and pressure of getting through the CPA exams.

FAR - Aug 2013 Passed
REG - DEC 2013 Passed
BEC - FEB 2014 Passed
AUD - MAY 2014 Passed

BSEE = who needs accounting degree to pass CPA exams?

[Anonymous]

reading all your responses made me tear up!! Can't wait to be done with all 4 parts…

I have only passed Audit so far and it was a great feeling 🙂 I was at my friends house for the weekend and they all stayed up with me for the score release ( Cali 6 am release) and I saw my score but was not sure if that was correct..It was a higher number than I expected so was not sure if I was looking at the place..I gave my iPad to a friend who read it and confirmed.. We all jumped and hugged each other and it was such a great feeling to be surrounded by my friends who knew what this meant to me!!

[Anonymous]

Spent 32 days obsessing over the score coming out. Nobody at work knew I was waiting because I wasn't at a CPA firm at the time. If they knew I was taking it, they'd probably look to replace me before I replaced them (little did they know that I had JUST accepted a new job offer).

Saw my WONDERFUL 85 before lunch, and did a little happy dance to myself in my cubicle.

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