5,000 MCQ per exam – The Answer?

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  • May 8, 2016 at 5:54 pm #201860
    Knight4CPA
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    Anyone feeling similar thoughts?

    AUD: 70, 80✔ (Expires 1/18/2017 - / Ninja MCQ / CPAExcel MCQ)
    REG: 61, 70, 75✔ (Expires 2017 - Ninja MCQ / CPAExcel MCQ)
    BEC: 78✔(Expires 5/17/2017 - Ninja MCQ / Becker Flashcards / NinjaNotes)
    FAR: 57 (just to get trigger time I scheduled 1 week after REG) Retake 5/13/16

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  • May 8, 2016 at 6:34 pm #775662
    Dave71
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    overkill. i usually do around 2000 mcq including redos on questions i got wrong.

    REG - 10/12/2015 77
    AUD - 01/06/2016 75
    BEC - 01/16/2016 75
    FAR - 02/27/2016 68 Retake 05/13/16 70 Retake TBD

    May 8, 2016 at 7:04 pm #775663
    Knight4CPA
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    its only overkill if you pass !~

    AUD: 70, 80✔ (Expires 1/18/2017 - / Ninja MCQ / CPAExcel MCQ)
    REG: 61, 70, 75✔ (Expires 2017 - Ninja MCQ / CPAExcel MCQ)
    BEC: 78✔(Expires 5/17/2017 - Ninja MCQ / Becker Flashcards / NinjaNotes)
    FAR: 57 (just to get trigger time I scheduled 1 week after REG) Retake 5/13/16

    May 8, 2016 at 7:28 pm #775664
    Anonymous
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    Anything over a 75 is overkill. Was furious I wasted all that time on Audit getting an 84!! 😉

    You know what they call the guy who got a 99 on his CPA exam?

    ….Same thing they call the guy who got a 75!

    May 9, 2016 at 6:48 am #775665
    Missy
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    Honestly its going to vary person to person and exam to exam. For FAR I don't think I did 2000 MCQ and passed with a 77 my first try. However I had >20 years G/L experience so with the exception of govt and NFP everything tested was somewhat in my wheelhouse already. AUD on the other hand, between my 3 attempts I'd say I did over 10k MCQ it was like self teaching a foreign language to me.

    Licensed Massachusetts Non Reporting CPA since 2012
    Finance/Admin/HR Manager

    May 9, 2016 at 9:06 am #775666
    law0915
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    I personally just did the Becker assigned HW questions 2x. I trusted whatever they wanted me to know in the HW was enough and it was. Once after going through each chapter and then as review go through all of them again for final review ~10 days by going straight to questions and then referencing the book or writing notes (which I never ever read after writing them lol)

    REG 77 Feb14
    BEC 13*, 79 Aug14
    FAR 64**, 76 Nov14
    AUD 89 Feb15

    *Exited exam after first testlet
    **Only studied F1-F6 out of 10 Becker chapters

    Licensed Arizona CPA

    May 9, 2016 at 11:06 am #775667
    theunexperienced
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    For me 3K is the sweet spot, idk why.

    FAR - 75 (2/25/16)
    AUD - 80 (4/8/16)
    REG - 80 (6/10/16)
    BEC - 79 (7/19/16)

    You only get one shot with the spirit bomb.

    May 9, 2016 at 11:06 am #775668
    Anonymous
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    That is the answer for some people, and not the answer for others. Myself, I'm pretty sure I just did around 5000 MCQs total over all 4 exams, and passed all 4 the first try (whatever WTB had at the time, I only finished seeing all of WTB once for 1 exam, and the rest I just got close – I think that was as low as 500-700 for one exam and still less than 2000 for FAR). But, that doesn't mean that for someone else doing 5000 MCQs per exam isn't the perfect strategy. Everyone's learning style is different and everyone's “golden ticket” is different. I didn't do any MCQs during my initial learning stage (which for me was reading the book, cover-to-cover, except for the MCQs in it), so MCQs were entirely a review tool for me, which may be why I didn't need as many.

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