[Anonymous]

I just received my score report from the REG exam I took on 5/21 and I was blown away. I ended up getting a 73 on what was to be my final CPA exam. Now I will lose BEC and retake that some point in the future but that is for another day.

My score report indicated that I was ‘stronger’ on Ethics, Business Law, Individual Tax, and Entity tax while I was ‘comparable’ on Federal Tax and Property tax. I was ‘stronger’ on multiple choice as well but the reason I believe I received the failing score was my simulations which I was ‘weaker’ on.

I’ve seen other posts here that state the score report as being inaccurate but nonetheless, I NEED to get better at simulations. When studying for this exam, I took off of work for an entire week and was able to take detailed notes on each and every chapter, did the multiple choice questions from Becker 2-3 times as well as some from the 2009 edition of Wiley (from the library). I did NOT practice each and every chapter simulation example in Becker as I did not think they were as important as completing the prior year exam examples.

Simply, what can I do to get better at sims?!?! I am planning on re-taking REG mid-july and will obviously focus more time to practice all of those sims. Should I look into purchasing new material (Wiley 2012)?? I’m lost 🙁

Thanks!

[nolifecpa]

i don't think you have to buy more materials, i would just go over the sims you currently have since you didn't really study them. if anything i would get a wiley book at the library or a barnes and nobles and practice practice practice!

the way i passed was to practice sims as much as i practiced mcq…also, i just practiced the tax related sims, no blaw

you will be surprised how much you can learn from sims, i thought i knew partnerships until i tried to do a sim…i was clueless!!!

REG-65,71,74,73,70,74,79
BEC-60's,60's,69,71,76*,78
FAR-67,66,65,79
AUD-54,60's,65,83*,69,80
*expired

DONE

[mrcpa]

I was in your exact situation. I would look through all the sims in Wiley and also look into gliem simulation wizard as well as every simulation in becker software. A lot of people say not to bother with sims but going through them all made my score jump from 70 to 89

Licensed - 2012

[Keely]

Are the real sims on the exam as hard as Becker's? I just finished up R1 and I am really bummed as to how hard I found the practice sims to be. They are extremely long, detailed, and there's just so many different rules for this crap already (I know, it's tax, I shouldn't be surprised). But still…it's kind of disheartening.

BEC: (4/2012) 88
AUD: (5/2012) 91
REG: (8/2012) 82
FAR: (1/2013) 78 🙂

VA CPA #42010

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