@CR7MU I may not be the model you want to follow, but I will tell you what I did while preparing for this beast lol. When I started studying for FAR I was all over the place since it was my first exam and I was trying to figure out what worked best for me. In the beginning I would watch all the videos in a section, then go back and read and take notes. After that I would do some mcq's from Roger's test bank, but not all of them for each section. Once I got around to Section 10 I felt like it was taking too long so I ditched the mcq and just watched the videos and took notes while reading the text. Once I got through all the videos I started the Ninja MCQ and that's where I felt it started to come together. Even though I was getting terrible scores I was learning from the answer explanations. For Roger, I didn't like the way their explanations were in paragraph format for a lot of the computational questions. It made it hard to visualize and I found Ninja did a much better job at breaking them down. I tried to go through the Ninja MCQ in the same order as Roger's book and almost made it through all the questions. By the end I was only trending 67% and had a feeling I was going to be on the bubble come score release. By the end I had attempted around 2500 mcq. I would say around 600 were from Roger and the rest were Ninja. Roger's mcq are a little easier, but there are a lot of the same mcq in Ninja. He does have some challenging questions, but overall I prefer Ninja.
Other things I did to prepare were type most of the journal entries in Roger's book into a word file and print out all the entries from the sites below. I reviewed them all a couple days before the exam, but I didn't spend a whole lot of time on them. Most people on here say you must know all your JE's, and they're right to an extent, but I was definitely not an expert on them. If there were any I would definitely make sure you know are all the entries for bonds (issues, retirements, and conversions), S/E (cost & par value method), asset sales, and Gov/NFP (opening and closing budgetary entries). I probably listened to the Ninja Audio at least 10 times on my commute and read the Notes around 3 times. I didn't rewrite my notes and honestly, I barely went back to look at them. Once I got to the MCQ's it was mostly that and I mixed in around 25 sims for a change of pace.
https://www.principlesofaccounting.com/illustrative%20entries/entrieslist.htm
https://sites.google.com/site/farnotes/gas-34/journal-entries–fund-based-vs-government-wide
After going through the mcq's on exam day, I felt like I wasn't doing well. The questions didn't seem to get harder and I ended up flagging around 20-25 of them. I really believe what saved me was the sims. I think I nailed at least 4 of them and got partial credit on the other ones. I'm pretty sure the one I had no idea on was a pretest, but I'll never know for sure. Maybe I'm selling myself short because I did put a lot of time into studying, but didn't think I was going to pass. I considered rescheduling, but felt I had nothing to lose taking the exam on the last day of the window. I'm not the most religious person, but I had a lot of family members praying for me and I needed every single one of them!
FAR: 75 Roger & Ninja (notes/flashcards/audio/MCQ)
AUD: 73, 81
BEC: 71, retake 8/29
REG:
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