[Anonymous]

Hi,

I am taking Gleim. On 16 of 20 units, yet to be completing. I do pretty good going through each unit, but as Jeff says, even if I score a 80%, you won’t remember next week. I had a little time over the holidays to go back and review and notice an unevenness as I reviewed the previous 15 units. (Scores could range from 57%-80%. It didn’t matter if these were questions I saw before or did not see. My memory couldn’t remember all questions). If this was the only 15 units, I’m sure in less than a month, I have this knocked out of the park. But there are 5 more and more material to go, how do you keep 20 units in your head by exam day? Its tough enough with 15 units.

[itooshallpass]

For me doing a comprehensive quiz after EACH chapter made a big difference, so that I was consistently reviewing previous material. Also, I would review my notes from beginning to end about once a week, and I rewrote those notes three times throughout my review. The key to keeping the material fresh in your mind is regular repetition.

[wombataholic]

Keep doing MCQs from previous units to keep yourself sharp, in addition to the ones from new units. Do MCQs until you can't get them wrong.

Licensed CPA
Passed each section on the first try with Ninja Notes/MCQ/Audio

[Floreat]

As mentioned above, create a study session after each chapter that is cumulative. For example, work through chapter 16 doing 20 question for each sub unit, take your quiz, do the SIM and note your weak areas. Then do another study session for chapter 16 with 10-20 questions for each concept that's giving you trouble. After you're comfortable with chapter 16, create another study session for chapter 1-16 with 20-30 questions. You might do this a few times. Take a cumulative quiz for chapters 1-16 and throw in a couple of SIMs for good measure. Finally, move on to chapter 17 and repeat.

I used Gleim also and this is the approach I used to pass. Here's a thread that discusses the approach. I hope this was helpful and best wishes to you.

Ethics, here I come!
FAR: 80 (10/28/2016)
AUD: 85 (2/6/2017)
REG: 68 (5/31/2017), 77 (12/7/2017)
BEC: 79 (9/7/2017)

[Floreat]

Link to cumulative approach discussion: https://www.another71.com/cpa-exam-forum/topic/creating-a-cumulative-exam-is-the-key/

Ethics, here I come!
FAR: 80 (10/28/2016)
AUD: 85 (2/6/2017)
REG: 68 (5/31/2017), 77 (12/7/2017)
BEC: 79 (9/7/2017)

[Anonymous]

First off, thank you everyone. I just finished 16 units in Gleim. I took a cumulative Gleim study session one with 20 questions and another with 30 questions. I am happy to say I score 75% on the 20 question ones and 77% on the 30 questions ones. Some were easy, some were hard, some familiar questions (some of them are easy to forget and like a question I never saw before), some I lost because I didn't read the question carefully, but overall, I imagine the level of the test. I do have weak areas, I will work on those now.

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