[katiekanton]

Seeking advice or help making this decision.

I’ve been sitting in this chair for 10-15 hours a day since about January 5. I sat for FAR two weeks ago. I have an appointment to sit for REG next week. I have enough time to get through the three remaining chapters by then, but it’ll be a freakishly insane push. Plus I won’t have a whole lot of time to review. I keep asking myself why I’m pushing so hard. I could take this 4/1 and take the time to go back through all the material again in March.

On the other hand, I probably could pull out a pass if I went ahead and sat, and then spend March on BEC and hopefully be done with this 4/1 when I sit for it.

Help. I can’t even think straight when I’m this tired. Every night about this time I quit and make up my mind to reschedule my appointment. But I also know I shouldn’t make any decision when I’m this tired and I decide not to think about until tomorrow morning. In the morning I get up and feel good so I do another full day of studying. But in the evening I’m so tired I go through this questioning again.

Is there anything I’m not considering that really should be a part of my decision making?

AUD - 88
FAR - 90
REG - 85
BEC - 88

[SDTrojan1904]

Remember all you need is a 75!

You've been killing it with every other exam so a 75 is definitely within your reach. I barely failed with a 74 and trust me, I think you have a great shot at passing considering how I almost pulled it off with my poor studying habits. Oh, and I don't have any accounting background to rely on either.

Any chance you're studying with Becker for the REG exam?

[Anonymous]

@Katie, I kept rescheduling my REG exam until I reached the end point of my NTS. With less than 5 weeks to prepare, and having a full time job (tax season) added with family obligations, I pushed myself beyond my physical and mental limits. I probably have the worst studying habits in this forum because I get distracted so easily before I know that hours were wasted for nothing.

I told myself the same thing like 100 times that it's impossible to make it, then why do you torture yourself, just relax and take it easy. But something within me kept pushing me that even if I know for certain that I will fail, I must give my 200% or else I will feel guilty as hell and then even if I failed, I can look at myself in the mirror and say “you tried your best but…”. I skipped many topics that I thought were unlikely to be tested and didn't even finish half of SIMs. The night before the exam I took two simulated tests and got 62 and 65%, so depressing. I tried my best until the moment I left home for the exam. For some reason, I had the easiest questions from the test bank, especially the SIMs.Well, believe it or not, I pulled it with a 76 and my diagnostic showed that I was weak on MC and strong on SIMs which saved my A$$.

I agree with SDTrojan 100%. You can definitely do this if you close all the doors of doubts in your mind and just focus on getting a 75 and remove all the other options from your mind for once and all.

Good luck!

[katiekanton]

Thank you guys. I'm up early about to hit Corporate. I appreciate you weighing in and encouraging me. The thing that was freaking me out was seeing scores of people who passed two other sections in the 90s and only barely passed REG. If the points worked out the same, I'd get a 73. I'm gonna keep plugging, though. You never know why we score how we score.

Thanks again.

AUD - 88
FAR - 90
REG - 85
BEC - 88

[mla1169]

Katie I think you're putting far too much pressure on yourself. Would it really devastate you if you walked out of there with a 75? I have no doubt you will pass, but I know that you place an insanely high value on your final score. I can't believe you haven't made yourself sick over this.

At the end of the day, if you score higher than a 75, you've worked far too hard. Even getting a Sells award is just a momentary rush and doesn't matter after the first 5 minutes (yes a friend of a friend won it, like 10 years ago and has practically forgotten that he ever did now)

FAR- 77
AUD -49, 71, 84
REG -56,75!
BEC -75

Massachusetts CPA (non reporting) since 3/12.

[katiekanton]

No, I'd be overjoyed with a 75. The problem is a 75 is so close to a 74, what if I put myself through all of this and wasted the money, and still end up sitting again in April. And to be clear, I'm not sick over the score, I'm exhausted trying to cram all this information into 2.5 weeks. It's really my fault for waiting so late to sit for FAR. I had planned to study for it in December and got distracted and busy with the holidays, so that pushed FAR into the first of February, which didn't leave me enough time for REG. I could just kick myself for not starting even three days earlier.

AUD - 88
FAR - 90
REG - 85
BEC - 88

[jokami]

Katie I am with you here… If I could change it to April I would…. But my NTS expires mid March… So I have no other choice here… My test is on Tuesday and I still have not finished the book… I don't know… I am so tired I am thinking of just taking is and repeating it on May… I have to repeat BEC… So I still have to continue studying… I don't know I am just tired today!!!!!

B - 62, 70, 72, 79!!!
A - 68, 81
R - 70, 82
F - 84

"The limit to your abilities is where you place them" - Fortune Cookies

[pacific1]

@jokami – I am in the same boat, I haven't finished the material and I test on Tuesday, I would reschedule as well but my NTS expires in March so I have to take it, but I will take it, probably not pass but then keep studying so I can re-take in April.

[jokami]

I am just tired… But you have to do what you have to do… and this one looks like a repeat… 🙁

B - 62, 70, 72, 79!!!
A - 68, 81
R - 70, 82
F - 84

"The limit to your abilities is where you place them" - Fortune Cookies

[katiekanton]

And really, for all of us, the bright side is that if we sit and fail, the knowledge gained by just having a look at the actual exam is a HUGE advantage for the next time.

AUD - 88
FAR - 90
REG - 85
BEC - 88

[Peanut]

@Katie, couldn't agree with you more!

AUD 81 (X4) Previous scores 59, 72, 72
REG 80 (X3) Previous scores 59, 60
FAR 75 (X2) Previous score 67
BEC 79 (X2) Previous score 58

[pacific1]

katie – I am thinking of it that way, I will take the test and maybe there will be a miracle but I will go home on Tuesday afternoon and crack the books back open and keep studying for a re-match in April.

[jokami]

I just want to get it over with!!!!! I'm tired!!!

I'd prefer be cleaning my house with a toothbrush than studying right now!!!!! That is how I feel!!!!!

B - 62, 70, 72, 79!!!
A - 68, 81
R - 70, 82
F - 84

"The limit to your abilities is where you place them" - Fortune Cookies

[pacific1]

That is how come I am so easily distracted…cleaning toilets sounds like more fun than studying most of the time. I give people like Katie so much credit who can study 10-15 hours a day!!

[Givemesleep]

The problem is the guilt. If your not studying then you feel like you are loser. I have sacraficed so much of my time away from my small kids, but somehow I want to do this for them. It's not about me anymore, the family has sacrified in many ways. If I knew it was going to be this difficult I would have done something easy like study for the bar and be a lawyer.

Let's all pass, F'em it's not brain surgery.

Reg 11/15/2011 - 80
Aud 02/28/2012 - 81
Bec 05/31/2012 - 78
Far 08/31/2012 - 83 Do you believe in Miracles, YES !!!

CPA License received 10/2012 !!
CFE License received 04/2013 !!
EA License received

Givemesleep

[jokami]

Givemesleep…

I hear you… But never underestimate a law bar exam… Where I live, that exam is three consecutive days, eight hours long per day… And the percentage passing rate is like 40%.

B - 62, 70, 72, 79!!!
A - 68, 81
R - 70, 82
F - 84

"The limit to your abilities is where you place them" - Fortune Cookies

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