[nturner508]

I just took Reg this morning. I studied with Becker starting April 26th (I was out of school starting May 1st) but I didn’t think it was so bad… I felt it was reasonably hard for a CPA exam. I am a fast test taker (just about an hour for both of my practice exams) and I scored a top of 79-80 on those practices. I went quickly on the MC and left over 1.5 hours for the MC. I finished up with a little bit of time remaining but I definitely needed all of that time for it. That’s the only part I agreed on the other posters.

There was a lot of points that I was questioning (about 10 per MC part) but all of it seemed 100% fair. I’d seen 95% of it on Becker/Ninja SG. The one questions I thought was out of nowhere I remember seeing on Ninja, I just didn’t bother to memorize it. :/ Oh well. There are some screaming posts about how hard it is but I think if you study, you should do fine. I thought it was going to be “impossible” and just despairing but I left feeling awesome about it. Sitting through it, I kept seeing stuff from my studies and that felt awesome. I just wanted to share my experience so people don’t get too scared like I did! It wasn’t impossible, just hard. I feel like I hopefully passed and even if I failed, it will be pretty close.

[kb24]

The wording on REG has been an issue for a lot of people. If it's an MCQ youve got a reasonable chance of figuring it out. If you have no clue what's being asked, you might get a clue from reading the answers. If you understand the overall question but are confused because it could be interpreted in a couple of ways, there's a decent chance that only one of the possible answers is a choice. With the SIMS you have to make your best guess and go from there. They have been asking some really off the wall questions for SIMS, but you do have the research tab available. Be sure to allow plent of time for the SIMS so you have time for research if you need it. I'd recommend 11/2 hours which is doable because a lot of the MCQ are theory rather than calculation.

Good luck.

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

[jdiiorio]

Thanks Kb24.. I just worked some legal MCQ and did pretty bad.. mostly cause I had no idea what they were asking. I guess all I can do is keep practicing til Thursday (exam on Friday) worse comes to worse I'll retake the exam in the Oct./Nov window and by then i should have a better idea of what to expect.

I guess peoples experiences have me freaked out and I can't make myself focus jeje..

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FAR - Passed
BEC - Passed
AUD - Passed

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