[vorobjeva44]

Hello all!
Long story short. I passed BEC from my second attempt in November 2016, – started a job and lost time…It will expire on June 30…
My last REG attempt was 73, and I will retake it on this Monday. I feel ready so hopefully I will do it this time.

THEN MORE…
I have two months to pass AUD and FAR … I know this sounds crazy, but I will try…

Plan is to study 12-14 hours a day minimum…

Need some inspiration from those who did this kind of race and succeeded. I am that kind of person who can consume tons of info in a short period of time under big pressure. (After I forget it as fast as studied it, lol).

I do not want to retake BEC in new format.

[Anonymous]

Is there a way to ask your State Board for an extension of your BEC to the end of Q3 testing window?

[Recked]

YOU CAN DO IT!!!

[DoubleBogey]

Give this a read..
https://www.another71.com/how-to-pass-the-cpa-exam-in-20-days/

[jdub]

Here's my story 🙂

I was unsuccessful in getting a BEC extension and mine has expired.

In November 2016, I took and failed REG by a lot. After a couple weeks of a pity party for myself – boom it was Christmas and we were traveling. When we returned I quit my job January 4, 2017 because we were moving in February. I studied like it was my job – woke up the same time every day, studied in my jammies until lunch time, took a “break” to shower and eat, studied until dinner time, gave myself a longer break of 2-3 hours at dinner then studied again until 11 or midnight like I would when I had a job.

I did this for 2.5 weeks. Then I took 3 days off to pack my house because my husband and I moved 1,600 miles away for his job. Then I had essentially 1 more week of the study routine. I took FAR on February 2, 2017 and moved a few days after that, got a new job a few weeks later so I'm working again and studying has since been a struggle.

It's 100% doable. I passed FAR with the studying mentioned above with a 75. Which sometimes I get down on myself for not having higher scores but a pass is a pass and I've never once been asked what my scores were – only “did you pass”.

I'll also mention that I didn't have time to take any practice tests – my focus was to get through as much material as I could. And I was still a little short on the government section of my study material and I still passed. You just have to be very disciplined to actually study that amount of hours.

Good luck!

[DoubleBogey]

@jdub
Before I started my job in February studying for FAR was my full-time gig. I also had to take a break from studying to shower. Studying for FAR makes me feel kinda gross if that's all I did that day.

[Radez]

Maryna,

Started studying for REG and FAR in mid-May 2017, tested REG in mid-July 2017 and FAR in mid-August 2017. I accomplished this using Roger. I would stream his lessons, skipping all the question review lectures, on my commute into and away from work, ~1.5 hours each day. I would also drill MCQ and TBS questions for ~1 each morning. My days ran from ~4am to ~8pm, arriving at work around 5am, and studying/breakfast until close to 7am, then working from 7-4 or 5, and driving home, dinner and bed. It was difficult to focus effectively every single day, so there was a lot of time in that space that wasn't as productive as it could have been

I also scheduled 3 hours of studying each Saturday and Sunday but wasn't able to hit that consistently. It was hellish and after I finished I hit a three month long serious depression. I would not recommend it, but it is, in theory, doable. I think I had modeled out that it was roughly 250 hours of prep, and I was averaging between 15 and 20 hours of study time per week. In theory I could have hit 25 hours on that schedule.

My point is, you can do it, but it will be very challenging, and if you only have one passing score in the bag and it's about to expire, then you may be better served assuming you'll lose the credit and developing a longer-term strategy for passing all four.

The way I approached mine was to recognize that there are only 6 quarters (opportunities) to take each test in a rolling 18 month window. It should be a goal to take at least one test in each subsequent testing window, allowing you ~2.5 months to prepare for each one. On the last two, I accelerated because I anticipated a difficult Q4 and did not want to be running up against an expiration deadline in Q1/Q2 of 2018. Just a few thoughts. Good luck however you go.

[CPAcandidate3]

Maryna,

You can totally do it. A lot of people talk about how impossible the exam is or how unfair it is and all of that is mostly people just building up an excuse for why they failed. You need to focus on efficient and effective studying. Get through all of your material first and you don't need to be doing a lot of questions while you do that. Once you have done that do around 300 MCQ (make sure you're reading every explanation after answering) and see which sections you're struggling on the most. Tackle that section first then move onto the next. If you're getting 70%-75% on a section I wouldn't even bother doing any extra studying on that outside of when you're doing MCQ.

That's what I did and I averaged around 55 hours per section with no fails. You don't have to follow that exactly but I think where a lot of people go wrong is doing MASS amount of MCQ on subjects they don't really understand or spending time trying to perfect certain areas which is totally pointless in my mind.

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