@tncincy – I like Starbucks most times.. Although when I first got there yesterday there was this gaggle of high school girls gossiping and I overheard them talking about how hard the freaking ACT is… I wanted to shank them in the neck with a straw.. But I just put my headphones in and tuned them out.. Haha. Can't pass the CPA if I'm in jail for assault, right? LOL. I usually study in our home office, at the kitchen table or sitting on the couch with my lap desk. But every now & then I like to switch it up. So I go to Starbucks.
@zumo76 – Thanks!! Good luck to you, too! I'll be thinking of you next week!!
@claudia408 – Yeah… It's been one heck of a journey.. Haha. Long story short, my office bought Becker for me in August 2013.. Then I got pregnant in September 2013 but, I continued trying to study. I took FAR at the end of November 2013 but I hadn't studied enough. I had to LEARN how to study.. I never really had to study before so it was a transition for me. Plus, it didn't help that I was SO EXHAUSTED every afternoon when I got home from work from the first trimester pregnancy hormones. All I wanted to do everyday was nap in the afternoons. Some days I would nap instead of study.. And, at the time, my husband couldn't find work and was trying to finish college, so I was supporting us on just my salary and that was pretty stressful.. So that probably had a lot to do with it. But, failing FAR so miserably was horrible for the girl who had never failed anything in her life, ever. Fast forward 2.5 years, and my daughter will be 2 at the end of this month and goes to bed at 6:30 every night, my husband has a steady job, and we're finally financially stable. So I think I was just finally able to turn my brain off and really focus on the materials this time around. Hoping REG goes as well tomorrow.. But we shall see. Super nervous!! No, I did not have any DRS on my FAR exam at the end of February.
@jkaos – YES! I feel you on that one! My house is a DISASTER area with just one kid (almost 2 years old). So I can only imagine how it would be with three!! What's helped us is that while I'm studying, we hired a girl to come and clean our house once a month. It's made my life so much easier!!!
@mhei8116 – REG isn't so bad. I took individual and corporate tax in college and I was really good at it. Last time around I made a 67 but didn't really study THAT much.. So I'm hoping this time I get those extra 8 points!!! For FAR, I worked every single one of the NINJA sims at least once. And that seemed to help me. So I'm doing that right now for REG too. I'm currently on #51 out of the 75 total. I've been doing pretty well on them.. So I'm hoping working the sims like I did for FAR will pay off like it did for that exam. I've also worked like 2,600 MCQs.. Once I finish going through these sims, I plan to work some more MCQs. But I am really nervous about tomorrow! But we shall see how it goes!!
Good luck, everyone!!
FAR - 51, 76!!!!!!!
BEC - 65, 78!!!!!!
AUD - 53 (Retake 8/26/16)
REG - 67, 76!!!!!!!
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