[jmurdock21]

Been prepping for upcoming REG exam. I feel like I know ethics and BLaw pretty well.

But I’m not doing so hot on the Ninja MCQ’s. I’m getting a lot of overly detailed questions.

For example, I received a question about Chapter 9 bankruptcy. Becker only briefly Chapter 9 in one sentence buried in a mountain of information about Chapter 7 and 11. So I was clueless as to what the answer was.

When I did BEC MCQ’s, I got a ton of “WTF” type questions that were incredibly hard.

To my relief, the actual exam contained questions that were much less detailed, much more straight forward, and much less difficult.

Would REG veterans who have used Ninja say that Ninja questions are more difficult than the actual exam or are they in line with what I should expect to see on game day?

[CPA788]

I am feeling the exact same way. I have my 2nd attempt at REG on Saturday, the first time around I used only Becker. I felt decent about it going into my test but only pulled off a 69. I had a good experience with NINJA for FAR so got NINJA for REG too and holy crap – I feel like I know nothing. I have days where I kill it and then sets of questions that are SO DETAILED and totally ruin my confidence. And I've been at MCQ for weeks haha. I can definitely say that real test questions are much more brief. The brief NINJA questions are very similar to actual test questions. If they were all too long we'd never get to the SIMS haha. I do feel like if you can spend enough time with NINJA, you will be over prepared, and that's a price I'm willing to pay to get REG behind me. 🙂

I also totally have the issue where NINJA asked some super detailed thing I try to find in Becker and either find 1 sentence, or nothing at all. Just takes notes and go back and re-work your wrong answers again later.

BEC - 74, 77
FAR - 72, 71 (retake 7/29)
REG - 69
AUD - Q4 '16

CA Candidate

[mtaylo24]

Ninja is more in line! I used for my third attempt, and initially studied going through each question round 1. Its a fresh perspective because all of the questions are scrambled from what the average program offers. I didn't retake any questions until I made it through everything at least once. Then I hit all of my missed questions, and things kind of started clicking, but not really. Once I knocked all of those out, I hit review mode, and I started scoring in the 80% range like it was nothing. The examiners are smarter than all review programs, so you have to make some executive decisions when you are sitting, because the wording on the actual exam will throw you off. There really isn't any way to prepare for that!

AUD - 1st - 60 (12/12), 61 (2/13), 61 (8/13), 78! (11/15)
REG - 55 (2/16) 69 (5/16) Retake(8/16)
BEC - 71(5/16) Retake (9/16)
FAR - (8/16)

[SkiBum1990]

I'm in a similar situation… I'm half way through the Becker book with REG and about to move on to R5-8 (thank god for memorization chapters). I've worked through all the Becker MCQ R1-4 and found many of them to be very detailed. –I was also wondering if using NINJA (purchased as supplement, didn't dive into it yet) would be a better resource that is more in line with the exam. While there will sure to be hard questions, I felt Becker had too many detailed ones that sucked up valuable time!!

"The mind can only absorb as much as the seat can take"

B - 79
A - 68, __ (got bumped from Aug 4 release to Aug 23-THANKS AICPA)
R - Oct
F - Nov (HA! 1 month to study working full-time; love NTS rules)

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