[Anonymous]

I have finished all the chapters for FAR using becker and im about to begin my review. My original plan was to spend a few days and reread each chapter but im finding that it is actually making me even more confused when i try and reread the chapters. It seems that the book goes into a crazy amount of detail while the multiple choice questions are more general and broad. I was thinking about just grinding out multiple choice questions and then only refer to the book when I dont know the answer to a question. Opinions on this and does the book confused anyone else?

[TheHoundThatRides]

I read along in my book as I watched Roger lectures. After that I never opened the book again except to look at MCQ when I wasn't near a computer.

Lots of people prefer MCQ based studying. If you feel more efficient with it go ahead. That is what the CPA test is anyway.

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

[the LAST Coffee]

Should've gone w/ Roger CPA course

#Rogerfanhere

But seriously, I've never seen the textbook for Becker. My theory is that the Becker book is very detailed which is probably way more than you need to know.

FAR 84 (AUG '15)
BEC 83 (AUG '15)
AUD 79 (OCT '15)
REG 71, 78! (NOV '15, FEB '16)

[myleen28]

I'm also using Becker. My approach is watching the lecture by topics within the chapters and then apply the concept by answering the MCQs. It helps me understand the concept more. It just took me a lot of time with F3 (which I just finished today; so sick and tired of it) because I do not have a solid background with business combination. Now my challenge is remembering what I have learned in F1 and F2. 🙁

Well, been distracted also with my job interviews. Rescheduled my exam 2x now. 🙁

FAR - 7/02/16
REG - TBD
AUD - TBD
BEC - TBD

[TheGeneral913]

I used becker. I did not use any of the lecture videos or index cards. My strategy for all 4 tests was to read a chapter and then do all of the multiple choice for that chapter twice in a row before moving on to the next chapter. I repeated this for every chapter. After finishing this for all chapters, i went throught every question from beginning to end. After that, i went through every question again. I then read thru the becker final review very quickly. After that, i did the becker final review multiple choice questions twice. Then i sat for the exam. My point is that i only read through each chapter once. Don't worry if you don't grasp every topic while you are reading through it. Everything will be reinforced with repitition as you go through the multiple choice questions. Make sure you are learning while doing the multiple choice questions instead of memorizing answers. This strategy worked for every single section of the exam.

BEC - 81
REG - 87
AUD - 83
FAR - 82

[TheGeneral913]

Just to be clear.. When i say i did the multiple choice for each chapter, i am not referring to the questions in the textbook. I am talking about the hundreds of questions for each chapter that come with the becker review.

BEC - 81
REG - 87
AUD - 83
FAR - 82

[Anonymous]

I am a huge fan of reading the book. I haven't used every material's book – only used Wiley – but have heard repeatedly that the book is much more detailed than the lectures, covers much more information, etc., and that's why I'm a big fan of it. When I get to the exam, I want to have at some point in time learned everything that's on it. I know I won't remember everything that I've learned, but I want to know that I learned it at one point in time, so that I have at least a fighting chance. Using a book-based strategy, I never – on all four exams – saw something on the “real” exam that I felt like I'd never seen in my studying, and I've heard lots of people who used lecture-based learning methods say that they were upset because there were things on their exam that weren't in their materials, so I think the books are more thorough for a reason.

However, like TheGeneral913, I never re-read the book. I always had great plans to, but never got that far. 🙂 I read it through once, and then did MCQs to reinforce the concepts.

So, to the OP, if you've read it through once and the re-read is confusing you, go ahead and switch to MCQs and just re-read portions for concepts that you're struggling with. But for others reading this, don't take this as “skip the book” – read the book, but once is probably enough, except for problem areas.

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