[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.

[wedger]

ok, so I am going to ask a stupid question here…for clarification, there are two sims, each with multiple tabs and potentially 1-2 research questions? one is a tester and the other is the real deal…?

thank you.

FAR-Done

REG-May 24

BEC-July 12

AUD-Aug 30

[kandisjoy]

No, there are 6 task based simulations in REG, 1-2 of which is a research question.

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

CA Licensed 11/2011

[kb24]

wedger, that was one of the things changed in 2011. More sims, but they're shorter.

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

[wedger]

thanks ok so in one full section sim there are 6 different sims with a potential for 1-2 research. any advice on how to prepare for sims? i feel like i might be ok on mc, but sims not sure how to prepare. conception i feel ok, so i am hoping that gets me through them. using becker as a prep, just skimming those etc. ugh 🙂

[pshustler]

So it sounds like the reccomendation is to study more tax info for the Sims?

BEC - 86
AUD - 94
REG - 88
FAR - 89

[kb24]

Never say never, but I'm not sure how they'd do a business law SIM so they'll probably all be tax. I'd do any practice SIMs you have access to. Allow yourself plenty of time for the SIMs in case one or more is exceptionally difficult — 1 1/2 hours would be ideal. That is possible since the MCQ will have a lot of business law as well as tax concepts so there aren't as many calculations as you'd expect. If you don't know or are unsure about an answer, use the research tab. If you find the wording of the question confusing or ambiguous, take your best shot at it and be consistent with the assumptions you're making. I don't know what's up w/ REG, but poor wording is something that many of us have seen.

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

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