[mandaland]

First time posting here!

I am going for REG round II on Sunday, July 9. I took the exam the first time around at the end of Q1 and failed with a 72.

I’m one of those people who gets test anxiety and I do everything I can to combat the anxiety I know I’ll have on exam day by studying the material thoroughly and building up my confidence in the days before the exam.

For my first exam, I covered all of the Becker material (MCQs, Sims, Lectures, Skills Practice) but didn’t allow myself enough review time.

SO, as background, this is how I’ve prepared this time around:
Redid all MCQs and Sims for all chapters in the last month, made notecards for problem areas, and have tried to redo all MCQs and Sims for tax and ethics this week (covered b-law in last 2 weeks so will do smaller question sets there). Took a Becker mock exam this past Sunday and was pretty nervous when I saw the score–below 60, but after looking back through the questions and sims, I realized Becker had graded several sims as wrong when they should have been correct (unclear instructions on whether to fill in empty boxes with 0s, whether or not to add a negative sign to expenses, Becker not following the authoritative literature appropriately).

Recalculated, my score on the mock exam comes out to 67%.

When re-doing multiple choice questions, I scored 91 on all individual taxation, 75 on property transactions, and as I was finishing the set on corporate taxation (10 questions to go), Becker crashed and I lost 4 hours of progress.
I’m feeling pretty demotivated at this point.

The nerves are setting in and I’m having a hard time focusing on the material I know I need to re-familiarize myself with before exam day.

Anybody else with test anxiety have any advice here?

AUD – 91 (November 2016)
REG – 72
Retake: July 9, 2017
BEC – August 2017
FAR – November 2017

[shawn in VA]

Yes I have test anxiety. I would study and do very well on the practice exams at home, and once I went to the Prometric I would basically “freeze” and be like what are they asking despite the fact I know the material well. I would tell my self I know this…I practiced this 10 times…I would have to take a deep breath.

Unfortunately, with me failing BEC with 2 74'in a row it has caused even more anxiety to the point I had to go to the doctor. I pretty much requested meds to help with the anxiety and it has definitely helped a lot. I take XANAX before the most recent exam and it calms me down, I tune out all distractions, and am focused .

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