[supdoc_82]

The first time I took REG I got a 74. When I took the test I had to guess on several questions and didn’t feel very good about the Sims. I took REG for the second time on August 1st. As I am unemployed, I felt that 20 days was a sufficient time to understand the material especially since I studied pretty darn hard for 20 days. I felt that I performed much better than last time on the MC this time, but felt even worse about the Sim Q’s this time. I figured if I didn’t pass, that it was due to the Sims. When I got back my score and found out that I got a 55!! I was shocked! I could not understand how I did so awful on this test! How does my score fall so dramatically when I obviously understood the material more than last time? I didn’t freak out during the test. I felt better about it than the time before. I called NASBA and there was very little that they could tell me. Is my real test score out there with an underground race of alient drones? 🙂 This entire process is so frustrating!!

[Anonymous]

This whole process is just frustrating.

On my score report on my 66 on REG it stated that I was weaker in Ethics. I take the freaking ethics course each year for my EA license, I know it front to back. How could I have scored weaker.

I think the AICPA hires homeless drunks to grade these tests and meth addicts to post the scores on the NASBA sites.

So in answer to your question, no it hasn't happned to me and I sure as shoot hope it doesn't! I can tell you that my REG exam this time was totally different than last time. Items that were in the SIMS last time were tested heavily as tax MCQ's and the SIMS had some similarities and some from outer space it seemed. Each test is different. I took the approach that I was studying as if I hadn't ever studied REG at all and restudied everything–then the SIMS happened and I probably failed again.

I would say you studied to get 1 point and needed to study to get 75+.

[suzie]

Yes this sounds like my situation! I had a 72 and retook the test and scored 55! I'm so shocked and have no idea how this happened. It must be a mistake! I studied even more than before it should have been a higher score. This makes no sense. There is something really screwy going on. What a big mystery this whole thing is. Makes me sick!

[pkd1982]

The thing to remember is those aren't percentage scores. Each question, as I understand it, is weighted–get an easier question right and you get one point, get a tougher question right and you get more. So maybe the first time you took it you got a bunch of tough questions right and your wrong answers were all easy, and this time around you swapped–all your right answers were easy and you missed points on more difficult questions. You might have even had nearly the same “number” of right responses but not on the same “quality” of questions.

REG: Pass
BEC: Pass
AUD: Pass
FAR: August 2013

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