Hello Drping11!
I just found out I passed AUD and I'm done with the exams! However; this was not an easy journey for me. I was also stuck with AUD for a year before I got my passing score. I received really bad scores and lower than yours: 61,59 & 68. I had to change my study habits and hours to work around my new job. If I remember correctly I spent 6 weeks studying for that 68 and 5 weeks for my 81. I never recorded the amount of hours I spent doing homework or studying. I just set goals for each day. I'll give you a breakout of my study schedule below:
Week 1: READ the Becker book from cover to cover. There are 6 chapters in Becker, so I did 1 chapter a day. Took notes on stuff I thought was important or stuff that I knew I hadn't fully mastered. Reading takes about the same time as watching the videos. It would take me 4 hours to finish reading a chapter, which is the time it takes to watch a lecture. But, the lecture kind of goes fast and skips some details. Try to find a place where you could possibly read out loud and explain things to yourself. This helped me a lot. You've taken this section several times and we both know that the questions are not the same ever. You need to know everything that is covered in the study materials.
Weeks 2-4: MCQs. MCQs and MORE MCQs!! I did 3,500+ questions the last 3 times I tested. Sounds like is too much? Not really. I've read about other posters here that do 4,000 to 5,000 and even more. But really, you learn more through repetition. I tried NINJA TB, Becker TB and Gleim TB. I was desperate and started memorizing questions, so that's why so many test banks.
Anyway, how did I get to answer 3,500+ when working so much? Set goals PER day. I took a blank sheet of paper and made my own calendar. Marked the days until exam day and taped it on my desk's top drawer. I had 21 days to finish 2 test banks, so that was 150 questions a day. There were days where I wouldn't meet my quota and others where I did more. I studied after work for about 2 hours. Then headed home and studied another 2 hours. You're supposed to answer the questions in like 1 minute or less, but I'm not really fast with the questions. I took more time to answer questions, but 4 hours a day for 150 questions is enough. If you're really studying it shouldn't take you more than that (1.5 mins X 150= 225. 225/60 = 3.75 hours).
Week 5: This week was really to catch up. You should be 90% done with your test bank(s) by now. Maybe you could take 3 days out of the 7 to complete TB. The other 4 days were to study SIMS & Notes. Yes, it is hard to study for SIMS because you never know what's going to hit you. But still practice a few. I didn't spend so much time with SIMS, but did practice a few for 2 days. The rest of my time were for Notes. Remember first week? Hope you take good notes. This is the time to go over them or if you have NINJA notes to read them or write them. Then if I still had time, I did practice/progressive exams in Becker.
I did the above for all of my tests and this worked for me. Yes, it didn't work 3 times BUT it really helps to stick with one thing and just tweak it accordingly. You need to put your time. If you don't want to study on weekends it would be really hard to keep the rhythm that you set during the week. And you don't have to study the whole day during the weekends. Like I rarely studied on Sundays. You're really close to passing, so keep trying. You can do it!
FAR- Passed
AUD- **F,F,F,** Retake TBD
REG- Passed
BEC- Passed
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