Yup.. I agree with Manuelo.. Also I keep telling my self that I know so many .. ‘idiots' who have a CPA license.. If they can do it, why cant we? CPA isn't impossible.. if it was no one would be a CPA! Yet there are so many CPA's out there. All we have to do is put in the time to really study everything.. In college I would read the accounting chapters before every exam TWICE, and do all the homework's.. I ended up getting 98% – 100% on individual tax, the highest grades on all 3 exams for tax. For corp tax, it was much harder for me, but you know what? I kept at it. I would always stay after class go to the library and read the chapter once, do the hw once. When exam time came rolling around, I read everything AGAIN, and it took me 1/5th time to read it the second time because I already knew the majority of it. Again I ended up with an A in corp tax. For intermediate 1, 2 and cost? Same thing.. A's in all. In high school I had a 2.x GPA. And I never did anything, except start trouble. I took college much more seriously, and it really paid off. I interviewed with the US Gov't & Big 4, and all were impressed with my grades. I worked for the US Govt for little under a year, and quit in my senior year when I received a big 4 offer.
Point is – NOTHING is impossible. Don't try to rush through everything, and say OH i know this question let me skip it. NO. Even if you memorize the question & answers from doing it more then once, what you need to do is say okay I memorized the answer, but what is the formula/process to do this? And DO IT on a piece of paper.
I don't want to take this exam more then one time each part, but if I have to you better believe im going to dedicate all my time to this exam. Do not feel unmotivated. YOU WILL BE A CPA. You need to be more positive. If you go through this process/life in general being negative, then nothing but negativity will come after you. Switch it up to speaking positive about yourself, and you'll find that a lot of positive stuff comes your way. Its about how you feel about yourself.
@bluegirl – I know you can do it, you have to tell yourself that “YES I CAN DO THIS” 74 is pretty close. I think If I see my score a 74 I'd lose all motivation.. I would be wondering maybe if I answered another MCQ right, or maybe one more number on a SIM and I would receive a 75.. but hey, we cant live our life doubting our-self, and second guessing each thing we do. POUND OUT THOSE MCQ's and you should be fine. I took about 4 hours to read R1-R4(only the tax in R4). This was after doing the MCQ's two to three times. I have about 6 days left. I did all the Wiley MCQ's and SIMS dealing with tax once. I plan on doing them again, and will do business law & ethics (R5-R8) tomorrowish.
Good luck to everyone, and remember WE WILL CONQUER THIS EXAM!
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