[Yolonge]

It was awful. I knew I was not fully prepared but it was so bad.

MCQ

I believe I got med-med-med or med-hard-med. Last part was definitely easy but some questions were hard in second testlet so hard to tell if it is med/hard. Flagged about 5-7 each testlet, percentage wise probably in the 70s or early 80s if lucky. I am expecting weak/comparable for MCQ.

Simulation

Not sure studying more will help more. I reserved 1 hour and 10 minutes for sim, but ran out of time. Pretty much left out one sim (hoping for pretest). I am confident I got research right, but that is. Other sims I probably got some portion, but not much.

Overall I am sure I did not make it and I will be really shocked if I pass.

Materials: Wiley book + Ninja MCQ

FAR - 83 (Jan 2016)
Study time: 6 weeks
BEC - 87 (April 2016)
Study time: 2 weeks
AUD - 92 (July 2016), (74 Feb 2016), (72 May 2016)
Study time: 4 (Feb) + 2 (May) + 3 (July) = 9 weeks total
REG - (70 April 2016)
Study time: 3 weeks

[monikernc]

just hang in for the score. if second testlet was harder then the first probably went well. you didn't flag that many. as for sims the prestest may have the new document review structure so if you didn't see one of those in other 5 maybe the blank is a pretest. finally, the worse we feel after the better we usually do (nothing scientific in that statement at all)

take a break. eat something. good luck.

FAR 7/25/15 76!
AUD 10/30/15 93
BEC 2/27/16 82
REG 5/23/16 88!
Ninja Book and MCQ and the forum - all the way!!!
and a little thing i like to call, time and effort!
if you want things to change, you have to do something different

[Yolonge]

I have very low hopes. I thought I passed FAR when I took and felt about the same for AUD even though i got 74.

I will get the score with BEC so I need to try hard for BEC with given time.

One month was already short, but one week business trip definitely had an impact. But again nobody to blame but myself.

I did not get document review but got one in very narrow topic.

I know I got some wrong answers to sim already, so that does not help. Honest I think I will get in ths 60s, and 70s if I am lucky and there is curving involved.

I will be sad but I usually get over things fast so I can start fresh next week 🙂

I do not have tax/law background so reg was hard for me. On a bright side I got to learn individual tax, it was pretty helpful so even if I fail (most likely) I did learn something so i guess that does matter

Materials: Wiley book + Ninja MCQ

FAR - 83 (Jan 2016)
Study time: 6 weeks
BEC - 87 (April 2016)
Study time: 2 weeks
AUD - 92 (July 2016), (74 Feb 2016), (72 May 2016)
Study time: 4 (Feb) + 2 (May) + 3 (July) = 9 weeks total
REG - (70 April 2016)
Study time: 3 weeks

[Soon2baTXCPA]

Right there with you. An absolute nightmare. Halfway through the second testlet, I wondered if I studied for the right test. Halfway through the third test, I wondered why in the hell I was still sitting there…like this has to be a glitch or late April Fool's joke…by the end of it all, I am still not sure whether to cry or LOL!

There should be a class action suit for mental anguish for having score release a month away! I feel your pain, though…

[Yolonge]

Soon-

1st testlet. Challenging but not wtf or what am i doing level.

Initially i parked like 80% of last 10 question of testlet 2. I was like wtf so I had to read couple time to reduce the number (not sure if it was successful).

Third testlet was a breeze, surprisingly. I only marked 5 and many questions I was certain they were correct.

I had to wait over one month for Far which was not good for my mental health. Fortunately I have 2 tests lined up so that should not be such an issue, but I agree that wait time is too long.

Materials: Wiley book + Ninja MCQ

FAR - 83 (Jan 2016)
Study time: 6 weeks
BEC - 87 (April 2016)
Study time: 2 weeks
AUD - 92 (July 2016), (74 Feb 2016), (72 May 2016)
Study time: 4 (Feb) + 2 (May) + 3 (July) = 9 weeks total
REG - (70 April 2016)
Study time: 3 weeks

[stozzo88]

Becker implies that most the of emphasis is on the tax rather than the Blaw portions but they still have almost half the book dedicated to it. Did you see a lot of Blaw? I've been outlining the notes for CH 1-4 is it worth it for 5-8 or just a good read?

cheers and good luck with the score release (in a month)

FAR- 1-18-2016- 82
BEC- 2-22-2016- 81
REG- 4-11-2016- 84
AUD- 5-17-2016- 86

[AMorris95]

I sat REG yesterday, and I hated the research question. I felt it was vague. There were two possible answers so I just went with the one that seemed to address the question slightly better than the other one. I hate being unsure about the research question, though.

As for the MCQs, I flagged the first seven questions. They were so weird! I went through all of Ninja's MCQs (3,500+ MCQ attempts, with all questions seen) and quite a few Gleim questions too, and those first seven questions hit on things I'd never seen, or even thought of. The questions got better after that. I think I only flagged three in the second testlet, and maybe two in the last testlet. I'm never able to gauge the difficulty of questions, but I think the MCQs put me in the 75-80 range.

My SIMs were decent, barring the research question.

Honestly, the exam wasn't as horrific as it could've been. I didn't see my least favourite topic, and if I nailed the research question, I think I'll pass. Otherwise, it's R2 for me.

AUD 84 (Oct. 2015)
BEC 80 (Oct. 2015)
REG 74 (May 2016)
FAR TBD

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