[mloveb1019]

This will be my second time attempting the exams. I had previously taken REG (51), AUD (63), and FAR (56). The last time I studied and tested was in April of 2018 and I graduated in 2015. I was using Becker and it was basically useless for me. I need something that will be exciting and easy to understand. I know nothing about accounting is exciting but I think just about anything will be better than those guys at Becker and the book itself was just too hard for me to read. I have dyslexia and if I’m reading things I need it to be very clear and easy to comprehend or else everything turns into a jumbled mess of letters. The lectures were way beyond my level of comprehension as the only real world accounting experience I have is as the lower level property staff accountant role I’m in now.

With everything being so expensive and me being so broke I really need some advice on what materials to get. I checked out Rodger and when I get home I’m planning to try the free trial out. They have a good special right now but I don’t want to dive in and purchase until I get some suggestions from people who are having success with materials other than Becker.

Thanks in advance.

[TheeAccountant]

Hey, I find accounting exciting! A suggestion for you. I can't recommend a different review course as I used Becker and I thought it was pretty good. However, I don't have dyslexia. Do you have a diagnosis from when you were in school? You might consider getting an accommodation with the AICPA to perhaps get a screen-reader and more time on the exam. It would require getting a specialists' opinion that's no more than three years old and having been accommodated during your primary/secondary/college school years. Here's the problem – you find a review course that works but you get into the exam and the questions are not going to be easy to comprehend. I don't have any LDs and I think the wording of some of the stuff on the exam is convoluted. I can't imagine how it would be to try to read that nonsense if I didn't read well.

All that said, a lot of people pass with Ninja only. And it's much cheaper than any of the other review courses.

[mloveb1019]

My parents didn't get me officially diagnosed when I was younger. They just knew because my mother is also dyslexic and it didn't really effect my schoolwork until I got to college and at that point I didn't know I could do anything about it. I really think I'd be able to figure the questions out if I had a good grasp on the material and Becker just didn't cut it for me. I feel like their lectures kind of jumped around in some areas and it was difficult for me to pay attention to that (unfortunately I do have ADD so that just makes the learning/studying thing even more fun lol). The worst part was that I just found them so, so, so boring. Especially the older gentleman. He literally put me to sleep a few times. I am a very physical learner so I need someone that's high energy and motivational and I need materials that are going to give me tons of MCQs and SIMS because the only way I truly learn is by physically doing things. I feel like if I had more experience in the field it would be a piece of cake for me, I pick things up really quickly if I'm the one doing them but I never had a good enough GPA to be considered for the fancy CPA firm jobs.

[mloveb1019]

I've lived with all my issues long enough that fortunately I have learned how to force myself to focus lol, these exams make me push it to the limit but I can do it. During the exams the comprehension wasn't the tough part for me. It was more that even after months of studying I felt totally unprepared and when I went into the testing center I went in knowing I wasn't going to pass because no matter how hard or how long I studied I just couldn't pick things up from those lectures or from the book. It was literally like learning a foreign language and I had been out of school long enough that I hadn't remembered anything from school except the basics and I wasn't working as a true accountant until January of this year so I had no real experience and no one to learn from. I was basically starting from scratch, like a first day of school freshman accounting major, and I was teaching myself everything.

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