[mafalo1989]

I need help with the whole thing. I keep reading and listening to the Becker lectures over and over again and it isn’t sticking. The crazy thing is I got an A in this stuff in college, it used to be so easy for me. I never had to study it at all but now that I’m trying to study it for the exam nothing is sticking. I don’t know if I just got stupid or if it’s because my chronic insomnia has been acting up really bad the past 3 months but I can’t grasp it at all.

Can anyone recommend some topics to focus on for this or ways that might help this stick a little better? My exam is on the 31st and I’m terrified that I’m going to get there and have multiple SIMS or MCQ’s on this like Government for FAR which I also couldn’t grasp which probably caused me to do pretty poorly on that exam.

[Williams]

Statistical sampling is a topic that is not heavily tested on the CPA exam. I most of this section when i was studying for AUD, and I passed with a 77. According to gleim this topic will only show up on your MCQs and comprises less than 3% of the total test material. Your time would be better spent mastering topics that will be more heavily tested, unless you think you can grasp a understanding of the topic in a days worth of studying i wouldn't waste my time.

[mafalo1989]

Thank you! Becker included it in one of it's heavily tested areas. I scanned over some Auditing for Dummies articles and I got a little bit better grasp on it but if it really isn't going to be as bad as I thought it was I may not have to do much more work on that. After I read those articles I completed the corresponding TBS and was able to do it correctly so that's a good sign.

[Anonymous]

From what I remember from studying for AUD, you are better off understanding about sampling risk and reasoning behind it and difference between different sampling technics, than the actual mechanics of it…

[mafalo1989]

Ok, that's a lot better. I can recognize the difference between the techniques enough to be able to guess on an MCQ or a drop down but if I had to calculate a bunch of stuff I might be in a little bit of trouble.

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