If you fail, do you retest or study another part?

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  • #201462
    gigabyte2001
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    I’ve only taken Audit (this past Saturday) and of course I have no idea how I did. Assuming I failed it, do I study AUD more and retest soon or do I move on to another part and come back to it later? My NTS for AUD & FAR is only good through end of July.

    B - 11/11/16
    A - 4/16/16 87!!
    R - 2/17/17
    F - 7/26/16 - Waiting for 8/23

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  • #773037
    S1CPA
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    Since you just took audit, I don't think you can use the same NTS to re-take audit (I am fairly sure of this, but maybe someone else can confirm).

    With that being said, even if you did fail AUD, you would not be allowed to take it in May/June (again, I am pretty sure of this; you are only allowed to attempt each specific section once in each testing block. You have taken audit in the APR-MAY-JUNE block, so I don't think you are allowed to take audit again until the JULY-AUG-SEP block.)

    If both of what I just said above is true, then….if you want to try to take another exam in May or the first half of June, then go for it. If you don't, then I would put your feet up for a few weeks, find out how you did on audit, and then re-evaluate. Good luck

    AUD - 80 April 2015
    FAR - 77 August 2015
    REG - 60 October 2015, 73 May 2016, 75 July 2016
    BEC - 79 January 2016

    #773038
    wombataholic
    Participant

    What S1CPA said. Your AUD NTS is only good for one attempt, which you've used, so you won't be able to retake it until the July/August testing window at earliest.

    You've still got a FAR NTS that will expire in July, and you've got 10 weeks or so until July 1. Sounds like the perfect amount of time to get ready for FAR in early July. Push REG back to the end of August if your REG NTS will allow it.

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

    #773039
    monikernc
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    if you have to retake AUD you will need a new NTS in order to sit again after June 30. you have until june 10 to do FAR. go for it in this window and if you pass, great. if not, you can retake next window rather than have to wait until the 4th window to sit again. if you have to retake AUD, knowing FAR will help.

    FAR 7/25/15 76!
    AUD 10/30/15 93
    BEC 2/27/16 82
    REG 5/23/16 88!
    Ninja Book and MCQ and the forum - all the way!!!
    and a little thing i like to call, time and effort!
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    #773040
    Anonymous
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    There's no reason to sit around and wait on scores before continuing to study, so my plan was always to assume I'd passed and begin studying for the next section, in your case FAR. Taking a couple/few days off can be good (I usually took somewhere between a weekend and a week off between exams), but then start studying for the next exam. If you fail AUD (Exam #1), I'd probably plan to take it next after FAR (Exam #2). So, depending on how quickly you think you can prepare for FAR, either take FAR end of May/start of June, or take it the very beginning of July. Either way, by the time you take FAR, you'll know whether you passed AUD or not, and that way you'll know after you take FAR whether to start re-studying AUD or to start studying your next exam (presuming REG based on your signature) – either one being Exam #3. Then, after you take Exam #3, you'll know whether you passed FAR (Exam #2), and you'll know whether to re-study for FAR or move on to the next exam…and so on till you finish.

    There's a decent chance* that you'll pass AUD. But if you don't, the FAR material will only help you with your re-take, and I think the “break” studying for FAR will help you approach the AUD re-take as a fresh study session so that you can study for 75 points, instead of thinking you're just studying for the 2 or 3 that you missed. So, I see no reason not to move on, and a lot of reasons that waiting around is unproductive. Biggest one is that if you pass AUD (again, pretty good chance* of that), then all that time waiting to prepare to re-study will be wasted!

    * AUD has a below-50% passing rate. However, there are many people – as you'll see from numerous signatures on here – who took AUD, as well as all the others, multiple times. Statistically, if AUD has – say – a 50% passing rate, and Joe Smith takes AUD 6 times, then he's one person who didn't pass AUD on his first attempt. However, he has 5 fails. So, four people who pass on their first time would average out with Joe Smith to an average 50% passing rate for all (5 total passes, 5 total fails). That would mean that among Joe and these 4 people, 80% passed on their first try, even though AUD had a 50% pass rate. Now, in reality, the people who take 6 tries to pass are not one in 5, and the pass rate is a little lower than 50% which makes the numbers harder to do easy examples, but my point is that the first-time pass rate is higher than the overall pass rate, because every person who has 6 tries to pass has to be balanced out by several who passed on their first try. So, don't see a 43% pass rate or whatever it is currently and think that means as a first-time test taker you have a 43% chance of passing, cause I theorize that first-time taking of a section has a higher pass rate than the overall pass rate. Everyone who takes it twice has a personal average of 50%, so higher than the overall, but everyone who takes it more than twice has a personal average of 33% or less, so lower than the overall, so I think that in general repeat takers lower the average. So, I believe that the odds of a first-time taker passing are greater than the odds of them failing, for all of the exams, not just BEC.

    #773041
    RE2PECT
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    If you take an exam at the end of a window and fail, I'd say keep studying and take it again at the beginning of the next window since the material is still fresh. If you take an exam towards the beginning of a window and fail, then I'd study for a different exam and try and take it towards the end of the same window. You should have enough time to study for it now that they've been extended 10 days.

    FAR: 75 Roger & Ninja (notes/flashcards/audio/MCQ)
    AUD: 73, 81
    BEC: 71, retake 8/29
    REG:

    #773042
    Andyred04
    Participant

    If you do fail (hopefully this isn't the case) you won't be able to retake AUD until July anyway so you might as well take FAR in the meantime. I sat for REG 4/12 and started studying BEC yesterday. Even if the score doesn't go in my favor I plan to take BEC 5/31.

    FAR: 80 (Gleim, Ninja Notes, Ninja MCQs)
    REG: 87 (Gleim, Ninja Notes, Ninja MCQs)
    BEC: 87 (Gleim, Ninja Notes, Ninja MCQs)
    AUD: 8/27/16

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