[Abcd6789]

Just curious because I am very nervous about the Exam after I graduate next semester. I have a 3.3 Accounting GPA and a 3.6 Overall GPA from AACSB State school. Simply put, I outwork other students and am probably average intelligence. Thanks for your responses and sorry if this question is somewhat irrelevant!

[Track55]

My cat could have graduated my school. Cal-State.

Overall: 3.4 / Accounting: 3.8 – working full-time.

Grades have nothing to do with how you will do on the exam and at work. My employer didn't even request transcripts.

AUD - 74, 99 !!
REG - 74, 92
BEC - 83
FAR - 73, 86

Studying for Ethics exam

California candidate
Business and Industry

[Mehow]

My undergrad Accounting GPA was a 3.95 and my overall GPA was a 3.92. However, I can't comment right now on the exam because I plan on taking FAR in April. If I wasn't getting my Masters right now I wish I could have taken it earlier.

However, I don't think you should focus so much on your GPA because I don't think it fully correlates with the exam. My friend she had the exact same GPA as me and she finished the whole CPA in 3 months with an average score of an 88. However, I know one of the four students that graduated with a 4.0 in my undergrad just failed two of his CPA exams. And there are plenty of people I know that are doing just fine with satisfactory grades in undergrad.

FAR = 86 4/22/16
BEC = 80 6/01/16
REG = 07/26/16
AUD = ?

[Tawpeak]

My undergrad GPA was 3.96 and my graduate GPA was a 4.00. I worked full time in an accounting firm the entire time and when I was getting my masters degree, I also had a baby. However, I've been taking Accounting classes since my freshman year of high school. They required you to take at least one accounting class to graduate.

I really feel like the masters degree helped a ton. Most of the CPA exam for me has been review so far- none of it was new information (until BEC because IT wasn't taught in my school). I work in audit, so AUD was really easy for me and most, if not all, of the FAR concepts I learned during school. I don't really think that getting a great GPA in school means that you will pass the exam. There may be correlation but correlation does not equal causation.

Done.
AUD 95
FAR 86
BEC 82
REG 84

[GorJess]

Accounting GPA 2.7 / Undergraduate GPA 3.2 / Graduate GPA 3.5

Began my CPA journey in 2012 using Gleim and mistakenly paid to take all 4 parts within 6 months:
AUD - 51, 47 (did not study properly)
REG - 39 (did not study at all, just took it on a whim)
Did not sit for FAR or BEC
I gave up in 2013... 🙁

Resumed my CPA journey in 2016 using Gleim again with the following plan:
FAR - study Feb thru Jun, take exam 6/5/16
AUD - study Jun thru Aug, take exam 8/28/16
REG - study Sep thru Dec, take exam 12/4/16
BEC - study Dec thru Feb, take exam 2/26/17

[TheHoundThatRides]

Overall GPA was 3.3. Accounting GPA was bad. Maybe 2.9. I felt like the dumbest guy in the room in my Intermediate Accounting 2 class. Was very satisfying to pass FAR and make up for that.

BEC - 78 (August 2015)
FAR - 80 (November 2015)
AUD - 73, 67. (Ok I gotta confess I was even more lazy this time around)
REG - August 27th, 2016

[A]

Overall & ACCT GPA: 3.98, thanks to one stupid “A-” in Intermediate ACCT II. This was my second time through school (career change at 35).

That “achievement” is totally meaningless in terms of the CPA exam. Self-discipline and persistence are better predictors of success.

B - 77 (2.27.16)
A - 81 (4.18.16)
R -
F -

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