[mjbey1s]

Hello Everyone,

Taking BEC for the second time. Got a 69 last time. Does anyone have advice on how to approach the essays on exam day in order to get the most credit possible? I have not been spending any time doing the practice essays in Becker because I feel my time is better used learning the concepts.

I would appreciate any feeback

REG – 83 – PASSED (9/25/15)

FAR – 65 (2014)

BEC – 69 (2014)

AUD – 73 (2/23/16) Retook on 4/4/16

[jessica8926]

I would definitely watch the 45 minute lecture that Becker has on the writing section and read the section where they speak to that area just so you understand what is expected of you in terms of format and what not to dos in the writing part. Otherwise I agree that you should not waste time on doing the writing simulations. I did not do any my first time around and scored “stronger” in the writing section on my exam. I followed the typical format you would hear from most on this forum and that is to BS your way through them and regurgitate the prompt every chance you get. Also follow the basic memo or essay format with an introduction, middle, and conclusion. Introduction is where you first regurgitate the prompt. The middle is where you regurgitate it as many times as you can while throwing in other “key words” specific to the topic of the prompt. If you have no idea what the prompt topic is like say LIFO vs FIFO. You can still BS your way through it by throwing key phrases and words from the prompt into your essay. Use the words LIFO and FIFO like your life depended on it just as an example. Seriously that is all there is to it. As long as you can put together a coherent memo/essay you will be fine. Make it basic and simple no more than 3 or 4 sentences to each paragraph. And in the conclusion make sure to use the prompt again word for word almost.

AUD - 69, 77
REG - 74, 81
FAR - 75!
BEC - 71, 82

IL candidate!

Finally done (5/24/16)!! Yahooooooo!

[Yolonge]

Listen to advice from person who failed BEC! JK 🙂

Best of lucks to you Jessica, I am also taking BEC very soon (4/18)

I suppose those are some helpful tips. Do you really believe 3-4 sentences are enough? I have not practiced written part yet, but typical 3 part paragraphs makes sense.

I wonder how accurate their “machine read” grading is.. but as long as you can write a decent memo it should not be much of a challenge.

I am also not trying to spend too much time on it, maybe I can review them right before the exam (read couple samples)

Materials: Wiley book + Ninja MCQ

FAR - 83 (Jan 2016)
Study time: 6 weeks
BEC - 87 (April 2016)
Study time: 2 weeks
AUD - 92 (July 2016), (74 Feb 2016), (72 May 2016)
Study time: 4 (Feb) + 2 (May) + 3 (July) = 9 weeks total
REG - (70 April 2016)
Study time: 3 weeks

[Pete]

I have this section coming up (May 25th) and am curious myself. Isn't the keyword thing done to raise your “computer” score? Ie. the more it sees the words, the better your computer score would be. Theoretically, you could write bs, which was readable (grammatically correct), yet not make sense in any form of context and still score well by the computer because it was “readable” and contained a bunch of keywords?

B=84 This exam was such a b**** that I thought I failed-don't know how these things work
A=76 Slacker I am, I'll happily take it
R=81 I LOVE taxes
F=80 I don't wanna get banned for an expletive I'm thinking with "yea" proceeding it

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