[mitchvols]

I have just gone through all of the FAR Ninja MCQ once. I was getting around 60% or so on most sessions. Now that I have only seen the questions once, my scores have gone up significantly. I am usually getting in the 80’s and sometimes 90’s. I finished the MCQ two days ago, so I have done 12 sessions in the last two days and my trending has gone from 62 to 75. Is this normal for people that use Ninja MCQ like this?

This being my last section, I am trying this approach and doing about 150-210 MCQ per day.
For REG and AUD, I just hit the MCQ button, didn’t even see all of the questions for REG. For BEC I did all of the questions, then did all that I missed to hit the review stage, I didn’t really like this because my trending score was artificially high since you are at 100% at the end of it, I didn’t ever really have a good feel for how I was truly trending, so I am trying this.

Thanks

[Over_It]

Yeah, it's called learning 😉

[mitchvols]

Haha, yeah I was just not expecting to see the significant jump like I have though. It just been so significant that it makes me uneasy since for some reason, I don't feel like I know THAT much more of the material than before. Hopefully, I am just looking too much into it.

[RE2PECT]

I feel like you subconsciously know more than you think you do once you start doing mcq's and have to recall the information. Not sure if that makes any sense, but when I sit back and try and remember certain things for REG like phaseouts or exemptions, it seems like there's a ton of random numbers in my head, but when I get a question on one of them, it just pops back in my head.

FAR: 75 Roger & Ninja (notes/flashcards/audio/MCQ)
AUD: 73, 81
BEC: 71, retake 8/29
REG:

[letsrun4it]

I feel what you're saying. I just passed FAR and felt differently about studying for it then all 3 other exams.

What I did:
1700 Roger questions
then
3400 Ninja questions. I was trending 90%, 70% overall, and felt the way you did…so I went back to Roger questions for my last week and by that time had forgotten them all.

I think you are cheating yourself when you can recall the correct answer before finishing the question. When in doubt, get a 2nd or 3rd question bank.

FAR is no joke man. I did those 5000+ MCQ and got a 76.

BEC: 85
REG: 74, 78
AUD: 86
FAR: October?

[Anonymous]

It means 1 of 2 things:

1. You've memorized questions, and can answer those same questions, but still not understand the topics to answer a question that's slightly different (ex: You read “Smith & Jones have a partnership which you audit…” and you know the answer is “Unmodified opinion” without even reading the question, but don't know the principles of when to give unmodified).
2. You learned a lot the first time, so 2nd time you can figure out the questions better.

If your last set on non-seen questions was substantially lower than your first set of previously-seen, I'd lean towards #1; if it's a more gradual change, may be #2.

[mitchvols]

Thanks for the responses!

Lilla, I just did new questions until I got done with them all, I never did a repeat during that time. After they were done, I started doing repeat and my scores started to be significantly better right then. So I don't think I would have been able to memorize them since I saw them one time. But I am doing memorized questions for FAR like I have the other three sections, if I have it memorized and don't truly understand the answer, I mark it wrong on purpose to not mess with my trending score.

[Anonymous]

Your mind has a great ability to learn questions instead of concepts. I personally never did a 2nd time through questions because I knew that I was recognizing the questions, not the concepts. If I'd needed more questions, I would've gotten a 2nd test bank instead of re-doing a first one. However, I know lots of people on here do 2 or 3 times through the questions and swear by it, so I'm not saying you shouldn't, but even on a 2nd time through your mind can remember enough of the questions to have it mess with your scores. I found that by the time I finished the first time through, I'd be around 70-something percent (say 75), but if I did a set of previously-seen, it'd be like 90….and I know I didn't learn that much in 30 seconds; the difference, for me, was due to being familiar with the questions. That's why I was asking about how drastic the change was for never-seen to previously-seen, vs the change from an extra 10 hours of study or something like that.

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