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(I apologize ahead of time for the length)
Problem: I am retaking FAR on 1/9 and I want to take REG and BEC before the end of that window as well. I am determined to be done with this exam! I am going on a cruise from 1/13-1/24 and as much as I don’t want to study on vacation, that is valuable time and I realize it’s what I need to do.
Background: I HATE to study, I don’t know how to study, I was lucky enough to make it through college with VERY minimal effort when it came to studying. I never read textbooks either. I did go to 99% of my lectures and did all of my REQUIRED assignments, but that was about the extent of it. For some classes I did make my own note cards to study for test and that always worked well for me.
Personal Info: I am 35, a wife, a mother, and I work full-time as a tax senior for a small firm — not a lot of extra time , graduated from TTU in Dec 2013 with a BBA Accounting , will graduate in May with my MAcc from TAMUC
CPA Study – I didn’t see a point in spending $$$ on Becker when I knew I probably wouldn’t use much of it, so I figured I would try NINJA and save Becker as a HAVE to only type thing.
For FAR I bought the 10 point combo — used MCQ mostly, looked over notes but not much, and never re-wrote them as suggested, never watched Blitz and listened to audio very little, I tried the whole listen at work thing, but I never really concentrated on it, it was just noise , never read the book — got a 74 (studied about 4 weeks total maybe 60 hours — trending around 56% I believe)
AUD – I bought the MCQ and notes only this time. Had good intentions of rewriting the notes but never did. I did ok from the jump on the MCQ’s — trending 87.5% and average 65% — much better than FAR — had 15 days study time 28:44 hours per dashboard – got a 75!! I found AUD so much easier to study for , I didn’t dread it, and it was so much faster getting through the questions without all the calculations
Question: What is the study like for REG and BEC? As I have used mainly MCQ in the past, I won’t be able to do that on the cruise, I will probably use Ninja Notes on the cruise and then take like a week for MCQ’s when I get back before the test. Though I am in Tax I always have done better grade wise in audit classes, I just get it. I actually hate taxes, but being a single mom at the time, I took the tax route because it worked better for my lifestyle.
For those still reading — thank you!
FAR -- 11/9/15 74 OUCH --Retake Jan 9,2016
AUD - 11/30/15 75
REG - Jan 2016
BEC - Feb 2016
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