2012 Reg Experiance

Just got back from REG, failed REG in november by getting a 74.

1st MCQ – Super Easy, or so I thought, breezed through it real fast ~25 min. It had a couple of questions that were out there that I assumed were pretest because you would need to harness the power of google to figure them out because they were so specific and super obscure scenario related. Lots of simple business law/ethics, and basic straight forward calculations for the most part.

2nd MCQ – Pretty easy again, not very wordy like I expected with a bump of difficulty because I felt like I knocked the 1st part out of the park with the exception of a few questions. Finished ~25 min. I expected I must have gotten a lot wrong in the 1st part to still be getting questions that were 2-3 sentences in length again. There were a few calculations that made me think that it might have been hard due to their length, but I don’t know because I still found them very easy once you dug through the body of useless misinformation.

3rd MCQ – If this is what a hard testlet is so supposed to be, then I know I must have done poorly of the first section. Took me a long time ~50 minutes. Lots of obscure theoretical stuff, long calculations, and calculations on stuff not tested in Wiley or Gleim (I did every second question in both books at least twice, along with tons of questions on their software) . I feel that I did alright on this one, this one took me the longest of the two previous ones combined. Although I guessed on a lot of questions, but was able to narrow them down to two.

Overall Impression of Sims: Significantly toned down a from 2011, even easy by most CPA test standards.

Sim 1 – Pretty easy, I know I got the majority of it correct with a few answers being educated guesses. I had a feeling that this question may have been screwed up by the test maker because there was nothing to respond to with a key fact in the question. Second hardest question on the simulation part in my opinion.

Sim 2 – Research, found it in seconds. Easiest research question I’ve ever had.

Sim 3 – Felt like this question should have been on FAR, but pretty sure I got most of it correct barring a few details because the question was so vague on the treatment it wanted for one part.

Sim 4 – Easiest non-research question I’ve ever had on the CPA exam. Got a 100% on it without a doubt.

Sim 5 – Really weird way of asking a question that’s commonly asked, even weirder in how they wanted you to answer it. I felt I did okay on this, with it being hit or miss. The majority of it was educated guesses, with only one part I know that I nailed. Definitely the hardest question by a mile.

Sim 6 – Another easy sim, there may have been one part I got wrong because I’ve never seen in asked in any practice questions or sims, and couldn’t find anything referencing it in the research tab. I took my best educated guess on it, but I know I got the majority of it correct.

Finished with 17 minutes to spar, looked over my sims but I didn’t want to second guess myself. I have a tendency to change my correct gut answers with wrong answers. Walking out of the test, and reviewing some material, already I know for a fact that I got 5 questions wrong on the MCQ, which had me worried with my previous test being a 74. I don’t know how I did. I assume that I did comparable-stronger on the sims, while being all over the place on the MCQs; which was the exact opposite how I felt last time I took it.