[Anonymous]

This being my last section, ideally I wanted to walk out of the testing center feeling either even-keeled (like I did with BEC 2010) or very confident (like I did with AUD 2011), but not with scrambled brains like I’d been beaten over the head (like I did with FAR 2011). Needless to say, given the circumstances, I feel worse than I did walking out of FAR. The first testlet was certainly on a “medium-difficult” level, and I’ve gotta believe the next two were flat-out “difficult”. Similar to FAR, I got a lot of questions that were around four lines, perhaps more, and full of calculations. And while there were short, easy questions littered throughout, there were many questions that looked like they might be easy (simply because they were short), but in fact tested very specific details that you either know or you don’t. The MCQ’s basically felt like the REG equivalent of my FAR exam, which for my sanity over the next, oh I don’t know, nine weeks, isn’t good.

Now, coming out of those MCQ’s, I was already pretty exhausted. The simulations were, in certain parts, poorly worded and poorly constructed. That being said, I know I made a few very stupid mistakes that I know better about but obviously can’t doing anything about now. Basically the information tested on the sims could have been a lot more straightforward if it weren’t buried in unnecessarily fancified verbiage. One tab in particular, the one I have every reason to believe was pretest, was on such a narrow topic and was presented in such a verbose and grandiose way, I would up having to come back to it with mere minutes remaining and wound up just randomly adding random numbers. I won’t say what that topic was, but if Accounting Regulation is a vast pasture of subjects, this one was like a tiny blade of grass.

Anyways, I think if the exam was longer, as it ABSOLUTELY SHOULD BE, I would have had more time to reason things through and thus maybe feel a bit more confident coming out of it. I’m the kind of person that if I realize I did something wrong, I feel like the world is ending and I’m going to fail. So at the moment, the stupid mistakes I made are kinda dominating my thoughts. Too bad it’s not last year, and I could find out my score in a matter of a few weeks. Oh well, c’est la vie. Good luck to everyone that has to suffer through REG 2011.

[Laura]

@appstatecpa– I couldn't agree with you more!! I had two simulations that were basically over the same topic that I promise you weren't in my review materials!!! I felt okay with the MCQs but the simulations really threw me! I guess it's just wait until June….

REG-80, 77, 77
BEC-67, 68, 71, 67, 71, 74, 71, 74, 72, 77
FAR- 72, 65,67, 53, 75 (truth be known the 53 was with 4 hours of studying)
AUD-58, 62, 72, 74, 74, 75
took 5 years but I'm DONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[kandisjoy]

I felt the same way about the sims when I took the test on 4/15. I felt excellent coming out of the MCQs but the simulations were just awful. I took the test in February and felt the same way about the sims… but looking back on it I'm pretty sure that I did worse on the sims this time. 🙁 I just want to pass.

I also had a topic on the sims that was like a needle in a haystack. It was on some obscure accounting concept that I had definitely not seen in my studying, and even when I used the literature to look it up, it was very very confusing. I ended up completely guessing. Another one of my subjects was so ambiguously worded that I still am not sure what they were asking for…

I had a dream last night where I looked on the CA site and it said that I passed with an 89 (ha ha yeah right, in my DREAMS), and then I dreamt that I woke up and checked it and I STILL had passed. Then I actually woke up and of course the scores aren't out yet. My mind tricked me. 🙁

Good luck to you both, and to anyone else out there who is in the same boat. Let's hope we all passed.

FAR: 71, 77
BEC: 70, 82
AUD: 62, 78
REG: 71, 68, 85

CA Licensed 11/2011

[RockyB]

appstatecpa

You hit the nail on the head…………

Its as if I wrote your comments………..the same feeling is what I experienced.

I took the test last Saturday……….I still can't get over it. I know I failed and am pretty bummed out. After all that studying, it just is not easy to get over.

[Anonymous]

@appstatecpa that's exactly how I felt after I took it in January! I missed it by 3 points and I really think it was because of my time constraint on the sims. Hopefully I'll nail it in May!

If you don't make it this time around, there's always next window! Good luck 🙂

[HazeEastwood]

I rematched REG this morning and I have to say REG is by far the most unfair of the 4 test. I scored a 73 the first time around. Somehow I made a mistake and didn't do ALL of the required problems for Yaeger and really struggled on individual because of it. I prepared for the retake in 3 weeks and after the first testlet I was confident. The 2nd testlet was terrible. Every question I thought I knew had a little twist to it that I wasn't familiar with. 3rd testlet was harder than the first but easier than the 2nd which again made my confidence rise. TBS were a disaster AGAIN. They are just so vague and difficult to understand. All and all I think I had a better performance this time around. All I want is a 75 so I can be done with this freaking test!!

FAR-81
BEC-84
AUD-91
REG-89

[UAcpa]

@HazeEastwood I took actually took Reg today. My experience sounds almost exactly like yours as far as the MCQ go. I blew threw the first section of MCQ. I honestly flagged two maybe three questions and was able to reason through them from that point. The second test-let was just hell though. I was just extremely surprised by it and flagged about 8-10 problems. Third test-let was more difficult than the first and I only found myself flagging a few problems all in all. I moved on to the Sims and things turned out a lot better than I expected. I nailed the research and got two that I was very familiar with. One I had never seen before and have every reason to believe it is the question that will not be counted in the grand scheme of things. The remaining consisted of one that wasn't covered well by Becker, but due to a significant hint I am sure I was able to get it about 60-70% correct. I looked back and checked after the test and it looks like I was on the right track. The other I did about 50-60% on. It definitely had some twists and turns that I wasn't expecting or I would have been able to do it without a problem.

I am really hoping that it turns out alright. I have never struggled with one section of MC on any of these tests like I did with that second test-let. However, I do think this is one of my stronger showings on the Task Based. I am hoping that I passed.

[Peanut]

Just took REG this morning for the 2nd time, it was HORRIBLE. The first time I took REG back in February, I had seen every MCQ before with Becker, so I felt comfortable, I had mixed my thoughts up a lot during the exam, ended up with 3 medium testlets-walked out of the exam feelig okay-only to find out failed miserably. Today's 2nd attempt, walked in feeling good. I was praying for hard 2nd and 3rd testlets. The first testlet was horrible, I hadn't seen so many of the questions, I literally wanted to say out loud “are you friggen kidding me!” 2nd and 3rd testlet hard but not as hard as the first one which is not a good sign. SIMs actually weren't too bad, nailed my research question (only got one this time, last time got 2 and missed BOTH). One SIM I could tell was a little ridic and knew it must be pretest, overall not so bad for SIMs. Wish I had my first test I got this second time 🙁 Think I'll be sitting for a 3rd time for REG 🙁

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

[HazeEastwood]

Sorry Peanut, that really sucks man. I hate that we are all struggling so bad with this test. Makes me feel like a friggin idiot

FAR-81
BEC-84
AUD-91
REG-89

[rshaf]

@Peanut- I felt the same way. I took in Feb and thought the MC were easier and SIMS were very difficult. Failed with a 71. However, this time, I thought the MC were hard and SIMS were easier. In the MC, they seem to ask for something that I didn't study. It's not like I didn't know the information, they were just looking for something that I hadn't seen.

It's good to hear everyones feedback, I guess we just need to wait until June….

BEC- 76 (08/10)- PASS
AUD- 85 (11/10)- PASS
REG- 71 (02/11), 81 (04/11)- PASS
FAR- 73 (05/11), 74 (08/11), 79 (11/11)- PASS

[Liz317]

REG is a beast. It was by far the hardest of the tests for me, and I felt the same as ya'll coming out of it. They ask the most ridiculous questions on the most obscure topics. I'm crossing my fingers for ya'll for good luck in June!

FAR - 92 --- AUD - 87 --- REG - 80 --- BEC - 87
A licensed CPA in Louisiana!!!

Dear CPA Exam, You are a beast. But you WILL be defeated!

[Anonymous]

I took REG on 4/15.. One question I as not familiarly with the terminology of, which I found odd as much as I had studied Yeager completely, was repeated (almost) in the next test-let. I gave it a good, educated guess and then the same term appeared in one of my SIMS… EEEK

[lostintranslation]

I took REG in April and made a 73. Hit the books a month more and took it for a second time today. I was sooo tired of studying looking at my books literally made me sick. Felt pretty confident that my first test couldnt get anymore difficult so i was sure to get something easier……WRONG! By the end of my test I was so mad that I was sure I was done trying to become a CPA. I am so frusturated because my husband moved to Germany for a job and i am a single mom here with my kids until I can pass this test. Not only do I know that I failed but the fact that I have to wait 2 months to find out really sucks! Not sure what to do, i dont know what else i can do to prepare myself for the rediculous simulations that are nothing like the ones in the Wiley book and especially trying to disect what they are asking…..Ok just had to vent. Just a note to people studying for the REG portion, dont count anything out, study it all!

[HazeEastwood]

REG is definitely a nightmare. Hard to prepare for all the different variations of things they could ask. Literally , they can ask a topic like like-kind exchanges that has 5 different variations to it. Atleast with BEC and FAR you can reason an answer when unsure. With REG either you know it or you don't. There is no reasoning. You just have to remember what you can and do your best. The SIMS are hard because they are unclear

FAR-81
BEC-84
AUD-91
REG-89

[kb24]

REG was the third test I took. I've taken them all this window so I don't have any scores, but I felt really confident coming out of both FAR and AUD. I felt like I was steamrolled after REG, though. I was well prepared; it was just a lot of off the wall questions from the start. I breezed through the first testlet for FAR and AUD. With REG, though, I read the first MCQ, said “I have no idea”, and went to the second. Same thing so I went to the third. Finally understood the question and things went a little better on that testlet after that. The next testlet was ridiculous, though. The SIMS were not great but OK except for one. I ended up having over 45 minutes left to work on it and I used almost every minute. I'm guessing an experienced tax person would get a situation like this every 10 years or so. I had no clue what to do so I looked at the research material and found the correct section. However, the wording of the question was such that I wasn't sure what was being asked. I gave it my best shot, but I hope that that was the one that gets thrown out.

FAR 4/1/11 - 89
AUD 4/15/11 - 85
REG 4/29/11 - 80
BEC 5/13/11 - 85

[UD CPA]

Took REG for the 2nd time today and have no idea what to think really. This test is by far the hardest I think because of the level of detail. I also think what is tricky is that the % coverage on the test is so skewed since simulations are so tax-heavy. Makes you study the tax stuff so much more and then all the multiple choice questions seem to be non-tax stuff!

I should have learned my lesson last time but I feel like I focused so much on tax again this time while studying that I may have overlooked some contract, commercial paper, etc. stuff that would have been easy MCQs. Anyone else feel this way or is it just me?

6 weeks of frustrating waiting for that (hopefully!) final score…

AUD - 81 (expires Sept 2011)
BEC - 70, 68, 75
FAR - 61, 76
REG - 64, Retake 5/6/11

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