[Anonymous]

Lucky for me, my Prometric center was open today after being closed for 3 days due to the hurricane. At first, I was hoping they’d be open on my test day. While my wish came true, I now wish they were closed. This test was a nightmare. I’ve gone over EVERYTHING in the Wiley book and everything Phil Yaeger highlighted. About 70% of the material I painstakingly studied were not on the freakin’ test!! I had to stop for a moment to wonder if I was even taking the right exam. About half of my multiple choice questions came out of left field. However, my Simulations weren’t so bad, which is something not many people here said. It was the mutiple choice that I found difficult. And I don’t even know if the testlets got harder. All 3 Multiple Choice testlets were extremely hard, IMHO. I’m so screwed. Here I was studying for 300 hours and I’m probably going to end up with a nice big fat 50!!! I’m so depressed. I don’t understand why the CPA exam is like this. It’s supposed to be on material that’s covered in the Wiley book. But it looks like they are testing on material that Wiley and Yaeger didn’t even cover.

In order to pass this, I’d either have to be one heck of a lucky guy or there’s going to be a nice big curve. But I seriously doubt this will happen. So, I’m expecting to have to retake REG. I’m at a loss for words right now. I don’t even know if any additional studying would’ve helped. I’m so annoyed. This is ridiculous!!

Sorry, I just had to vent.

[Minimorty]

Here's what is really funny. You are probably going to get an 85, and snausages is going to get another 74. You better look out, snausages is going to hunt you down. lol.

[Herbieherb]

Sound like 90 to me.

NEW YORK- DONE

[Herbieherb]

Did you have the cpaman bandana on? This is serious business!

NEW YORK- DONE

[Peanut]

lol Mini… I have to agree though, I feel like the worse you feel, the better you do! The fact that all your testlets were hard is a good sign as well. Lets hope that feeling like $hit gets us our passing score!

AUD 81 (X4) Previous scores 59, 72, 72
REG 80 (X3) Previous scores 59, 60
FAR 75 (X2) Previous score 67
BEC 79 (X2) Previous score 58

[Anonymous]

LOL!!! You have no idea how many MCQs I was guessing at. Unless I'm a good guesser, I can't see how on earth I can get a 90 after the experience I just went through.

[Peanut]

I swear those left field questions all come from the damn ancillary material

AUD 81 (X4) Previous scores 59, 72, 72
REG 80 (X3) Previous scores 59, 60
FAR 75 (X2) Previous score 67
BEC 79 (X2) Previous score 58

[Minimorty]

What was a little bit frustrating was about 80% of the multiple choice questions came from areas that were covered in like one sentence from Becker. If it was in the pass key? Definitely not tested! On page 185, bullet point 3, subsection 2, covered in 3 words? YUP! Gonna be on the exam.

[Anonymous]

And here's the worst part. This exam is so time compressed. So, you can't even take a minute or two to read the question carefully and think it through. With the small amount of time given for this test, you just have to read the question over once and just go with your gut instinct and move on. No time to think. Ridiculous!!!

[Minimorty]

I actually finished the first three testlets in an hour and walked out of the room with 50 minutes to spare. I seem not to have had the timing issues you had.

[mla1169]

Somebody's job is to scan Becker, Yaeger, Roger and Wiley and keep a database of how often certain concepts are referenced. The ones that are referenced least, are sure to show up on the exam.

Someday I will have the time and patience to make a database along those lines and sell it LOL!!! Then of course my database will skew the way questions are chosen, people will demand their money back, they will tar and feather me….

Nevermind.

FAR- 77
AUD -49, 71, 84
REG -56,75!
BEC -75

Massachusetts CPA (non reporting) since 3/12.

[Herbieherb]

Remember like 15 mcqs are pretest. If you slam dunked the sims I think your in good shape :)…REG is too short while audit is too long

NEW YORK- DONE

[Anonymous]

Minimorty- I had time issues even in AUD, yet I did fine. I'm just a slow test taker. I figured, I'm given X hours, why not use it wisely?? With REG, I was trying hard to pick choices carefully, but unfortunately, I needed more time. And with some MCQs being extremely wordy, I don't know how you finished all 3 testlets in 1 hours. You must be a speedy reader.

With FAR and AUD, I knew I kicked butt on Testlet 1. It was testlets 2 and on that I felt horrible. But at least, I knew it was getting harder. With REG, it was hard from beginning!!!! That can't be good at all. Testlet 1 is supposed to be easy.

[Minimorty]

The AICPA says everyone starts with a “medium” testlet. If you do well, you get a hard one. If you dont do well you get another medium one. Same thing for testlet two. If you do well on the hard you get another hard. If you dont do well, you drop down to medium. If you did well on the medium, you get a hard one for the 3rd testlet. Who knows though, right?

[Peanut]

@CPAMan—that's exactly how my second attempt at REG was. The first testlet was SO difficult. I was thinking “how is this possible? This is NOT a medium test!!” I didn't have that experience this time around..

AUD 81 (X4) Previous scores 59, 72, 72
REG 80 (X3) Previous scores 59, 60
FAR 75 (X2) Previous score 67
BEC 79 (X2) Previous score 58

[vi3tdragen]

@CPAman, are you using Becker for any of your study materials?

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