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Video: Finished CPA Exam Early – Bad Sign (AUD)?

Jeff Elliott, CPA (KS) | Another71 | NINJA CPA | NINJA CMA | NINJA CPE

[2bigcpa]

I finished BEC with about a hour left. 🙁 Thanks for the video!

[Anonymous]

I would say it's a good thing. It usually means you know what you're doing

[Recked]

I paid good money for those 4 hours so I made sure to use it all.

[Anonymous]

For what it's worth for those who speed through test:

FAR – finished one hour early, got a 77
BEC – finished 1.5 hours early, got a 79
REG – finished 40 minutes early, awaiting results on 6/28
AUD – taking it tomorrow morning (6/7). Based on Jeff's comments on people finishing AUD quickly, this will be interesting…

In hindsight, I do need to slow down a bit, as I've cut it close on my first two scores. Kinda had a mental lapse in REG and got overly frustrated with the SIMs and submitted too early. I regret not going through the final testlet more thoroughly. We'll see if it cost me.

[Anonymous]

FAR – Finished 2.5 Hours
AUD – Finished 2.75 Hours

Get results 6/28.

[MIsconnie]

There hasn't been an exam that I have finished (and I have taken all 4) where I didn't have at least an hour left. If you know your stuff, it is possible to finish early and still do well.

FAR – 1.5 hours left
BEC – 1 hour left
REG – 1.25 hours left
AUD – 1 hour left

[Superdude3000]

I always used every single minute at my disposal. would review review review my last teslet making sure I didn't miss little details and on EVERY SINGLE EXAM I caught myself making at least one mistake. Use that time to quadruple check your answers and/or use the AL – you paid for the time, get the best bang for your buck. Could be the difference between a 74 and 75.

[Anonymous]

I have always been a slow exam taker. I did have about 5 mins or less left with Audit, and I believe about 3 with FAR, but for the most part, I'm usually working down to the last second. With BEC I remember having a few minutes left with the written portion (before BEC had Sims), I read over my responses and started writing more on one that I was not too sure about.

[itooshallpass]

I'm decisive and I don't obsess or second-guess myself. I finished FAR with about an hour left and used most of that to re-check my last sims and fixed a couple mistakes. With AUD I walked out with almost 2.5 hours on the clock – different scenario that time, I had basically given up at that point because I didn't know what I was doing. Somehow I managed to pass, I guess I got lucky. But AUD definitely goes fast because there's so little calculation.

[Anonymous]

I took FAR Q4 2017 and finished with about 10 minutes to go. My last SIM was a doozie so I took extra time looking up stuff in the AL. I felt the most pressed for time during FAR. For BEC in Q1 2018 I finished with maybe 5 minutes left, but I got to the written section with an hour to go. I took my time and made sure there were no grammatical errors and all my responses were coherent. I took REG yesterday and finished with an hour to go. My last set of SIMs were things I was much more prepared for than my 2nd set (which had 2 SIMs that kind of came out of left field,) so I really didn't need to go back and scrutinize everything for that final set. I wish I could've gone back to my 2nd set of SIMs and looked those over, but it was obviously too late.

It's just freaking me out now that I finished so early. I felt more prepared for REG than either FAR or BEC. I absolutely blew through the first set of MCQ's in like 20 minutes, but I think I got a really easy first set. The second set of MCQ's were much harder, but they only took me like 45-50 minutes. Not a lot of my MCQ's had math involved, so maybe that was why it didn't take as long. Also, the first SIM I got was the research question and it was a very specific topic that I found in the AL right away. So barely after an hour I was done all the MCQ's and 1 SIM.

Sorry for the long post, but I am still processing my experience from yesterday in my head and it was bothering me a little bit that I was done so early compared to the rest of my tests. It's just quite a coincidence that Jeff posted a video about finishing early the same day as I took the only test I finished early.

[Anonymous]

REG: Finished 1.5 hours early- 98
BEC: Used ALL the time- 96
AUD: Finshed 2.5 hours early (what the heck)- June 28th
FAR: Finshed 45 min early- June 28th

[Tim]

I had over an hour left in FAR and BEC and like 2 hours left for AUD.

[joe]

I sat for Reg on 12-09-2023. I finished with about 30 minutes to spare. The test got progressively harder very quickly. By the time I got to the simulations, I felt I was taking a much harder exam. Hope this is a good sign Any thoughts ?

[joe]

I sat for Reg on 12-09-2023. I finished with about 30 minutes to spare. The test got progressively harder very quickly. By the time I got to the simulations, I felt I was taking a much harder exam. Hope this is a good sign Any thoughts ?

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