[jeff]

We have a lot of “I took __ today threads” so to consolidate, here is the official thread.

Please – Not even a hint of exam disclosure per AICPA rules.

AUD

BEC

FAR

[A1lessio]

Took the exam today and I feel like I did well on the MCQ's, but really bombed the sims. I probably got anywhere from 40-70% on most of them. Maybe one or two completely wrong, but I got the research question correct. My only slight hope of passing is that I got a 71 and 76 on the becker practice finals and it seems like that usually translates to a passing score. For audit, I got a 69 and 72 on practice exams and got an 86 on actual, but I felt more confident on Audit sims.

AUD (08/02/2016)

[NeedsA75]

So weird how everyone's experience differs. First time I took REG- MC was straight forward. SIMS were brutal and I probably got a 35-40% on them. Second time, MC was random and tricky. SIMS were much more manageable the second time and I probably scored around 75% on them. I got a 74 the first time….absolutely praying for a 75 this time!!

[SomeSomeCPA]

Took the exam today. I'm with you guys, Q4 REG MCQ was brutal compared to Q3. I struggled the whole way, even after 6 weeks more of studying since my Q3 REG exam (110 hours total: Becker and 1800 Ninja MCQ trending 81%). SIMs were not terrible but 2 of them had fairly terrible instructions/left field topics…we'll see.

FAR: 39,59,TBD
BEC: 74,79
AUD: 77
REG: September

[NeedsA75]

OK…I feel somewhat vindicated knowing other people feel the same way I did. Q3 MC testlet #1 was cake. Q4 testlet #1 was the opposite. Obscure topics and added wrinkles to a lot of questions on topics that I was familiar with. Hopefully a lot of those questions were pretest questions…I'm gonna be really pissed if I come up short with a 73 or God forbid another 74 because they decided to make the MC significantly harder..

[Rach0104]

Took Reg today, just felt uneasy about everything. My mind is telling me if i thought it was slightly easy its because in reality i bombed it.

First MC was medium
Second MC was medium/hard
Third MC was medium/easy

Sims were actually manageable, well at least i think so compared to every other exam i've taken. Just want to be done, score release on Nov 22 cannot come soon enough!

Hopefully I will be done studying FOR GOOD 🙂

[Anonymous]

This exam scares me. Got a 69 last time. It's the only part I have any trouble in as I thought the other three werent too bad. I just dont want to take the new version of the exam so if I dont pass this time, I have to pass next time.

Far too much obscure content. With FAR you could see something you might not have studied but make sense of it based on other things you did study. This one you miss one tiny detail and fail the entire exam.

Fingers crossed

[Anonymous]

Took Reg on 10/24 like many of you guys. I just feel uneasy about this exam. My testlets did not get difficult as I went on or at least I did not feel like they were getting harder. They were tricky though. Many of MCQ's I answered by default. When I went home I could not stop thinking about the questions and doubting the answers I chose. I feel like this exam is messing with my mind. The SIMS, I would tell one was pre-tested because it belong to a totally different part of the CPA. Maybe FAR. I think if the testlets did not get harder, its because I failed!

When I came out of prometrics, I felt at peace though. But when I went home, I just could not help but to be anxious about this. The worse thing is that I have to wait until November 22nd in order to get the results… 🙂

[Spartans92]

CPAshoes08, same exact feeling as you! I can't even focus on studying for AUD. Its just so hard to focus knowing that you have a score pending and the thought of retaking. I kinda wish we can find out immediately pass or fail. It just messes with our minds, at least for me.

BEC- PASS

[Anonymous]

Same experience I had CPAshoes. I also was excited that 60% of the test is supposed to be tax since that is a strong point of mine. I didnt have more than a couple of tax questions in the entire 1st testlet. That threw a wrench into my gameplan.

Spartans. It gets worse Q2 next year. You have to wait 10 weeks after the end of a testing period to know what you got.

[Paul]

Whats up Ninjas

Took reg earlier today. This was my first exam out of the four parts. Got to the testing center about 30 minutes early and after I checked in there wasn't much of a wait. I took the exam at 14:00 because I figured why not have some time to wake up, review some material and make it to the testing center. Since there was not much of a wait I entered into the exam room earlier, more like 13:35 hours.

After reading the prompts and entering into the exam I could feel my heart beating out my chest lol, defiantly nervous for some reason. After I got through the first couple of questions and realized I understand what they are asking it wasn't so bad.

I honestly couldn't tell if my MCQs were getting harder or not. I didn't let that get to me because I needed to keep every bit of momentum I had going. I was able to get through all three parts with an hour and forty minutes left for the six questions which one of them was the DRS (not so bad I think).

When I got to the 6 task base simulations, I felt lost, I struggled with them forsure but I gave it everything.

I will say for anyone about to take REG, make sure you incorporate the task base simulations. I definitely did some but my main focus was MCQ as i was studying.

Leaving the testing center I was happy to be done. I truly don't know how I feel about the job I did but Ill know somewhere around November 22nd.

I am going to take the rest of this night to relax because I have to start prepping for BEC tomorrow evening.

Good luck to everyone on their Journey!

BEC 10/29/16
FAR 11/26/16
REG TBA
AUD TBA

[Anonymous]

@Spartans92 I have scheduled AUD as well, but I can't focus on that either! I have this pending score in the back of my brain.

@Sunny I had the same experience. I focused on the heavy stuff (at least for me) schedules M1, 2 & 3, AMT's, 1120, 1065, schedule K and K1. But what do I get? All types of obscure topics sprinkled with some tax questions with the exception of the SIMS. Some of them I honestly guessed. Praying on this one!

[The.Underdog]

@njvath and @ImmoKnight I had the exact same experience as you guys. I couldn't tell a difference in the testlets and flew through them. Here's to hoping we passed.

FAR - 86
AUD - 93
REG - 8/31/16
BEC -84

[Anonymous]

Took REG this morning and I'm pretty confident I failed it :/ the second and third testlets were embarrassingly easy and yet I kept forgetting tiny details that made the difference in being able to answer the question or not. The sims I actually didn't think were that bad, and if I do manage to pass it definitely will be because of the sims. I'm not going to worry about it, if I have to take it again in January it's not the end of the world. Time to change gears and crank out FAR in five weeks!

[Texasmom]

Took REG this morning for the 3rd time this year and I felt the testlets were medium all the way through. Couldn't really tell if they got harder or not. I finished having almost 2 hours left over for the SIMS. It is amazing how different the SIMS are after taking this test for the 3rd time. It really is luck of the draw. I feel like in the past the SIMS were pretty much unworkable but this time I felt they were actually pretty fair. Nothing obscure. The only thing that threw me a wrench was the research but hopefully i got it. The rest of the SIMS took me a while and i finished with 30 seconds left. Here's to a 75 or above on Nov 22! Now on to AUD which will hopefully be my last exam on December 8th. Please God let it be so!

FAR - 84
REG - 72, 73
AUD-
BEC - Sept 2016

[ryan33]

So I took REG for the second time yesterday. First time was in Sept and I scored a 74. I felt decent about the MCQ and terrible about the simulations, which ended up showing on my score report – almost all stronger on MCQ except for business law and property transactions, and weaker on simulations. The sims for that one were so hard to even understand let alone answer.

So I restudied for over a month and took some time off work leading up to my test and felt very prepared going into it yesterday. I started the test and all of the multiple choice were so random and seemed to be on topics that I hadn't even studied. I was so flustered throughout the MCQ and I felt like I was definitely failing. How could I do so well on them last time, and this time it felt they were all out of left field.

The only bright spot is that I feel like all my simulations were answerable and I felt like I was right on almost all of them except for one where the directions were not clear (which is annoying – like what are you even asking).

I see that some of the other commenters noticed the MCQ being much harder and different than Q3. I wish I could say that the testlets got harder as I went through, but I think it was all hard because the topics tested were not the main ones I studied in Becker. How could I feel so unprepared just two months after getting “stronger” on most multiple choice topics?

Anyways, I am hoping that the simulations can help carry me and that I did better on multiple choice than I initially thought during the exam. If I fail this again, I lose FAR which would be the worst.

FAR - 65,74,73,78
AUD - 72, 73
BEC -
REG -

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