160 Hours+2000 MCQ+150 Sims+Becker Text Completed+Daily Audio & Notes=AUDIT FAIL - Page 2

@Casey that sounds like a great plan! I'm going to schedule my rematch for April 16th because nothing celebrates the end of busy season like a 4 hour standardized test! Ha!

@Nam Thanks for the feedback on the AL! I'm anixous to receive my score report to see if the sims were the issue this time. Congrats to you on passing your final section and being done!!!!! I have enjoyed reading your contributions to A71 and appreciate your consistently positive voice in the forum! I hope you enjoy your new found free time because you deserve it!!!! 🙂

I am implementing a plan going forward of preparing more detailed notes, rewriting those notes as well as the Ninja Notes, and focusing on understanding these topics in depth rather than churning through the same 1000 MCQs over and over again to wind up inadvertently memorizing instead of learning. I'm also going to decrease my prep time from 8 weeks down to 5 weeks so that I can focus and learn to make efficient and effective use of my time.

I ran across one of Kricket's posts this morning and felt inspired! Kricket told another candidate who was struggling with a particular section that the only way to truly fail this exam is to quit!!! I WILL NOT QUIT. EVER. 300 CLUB OR BUST!!! 🙂

It's time to get back on the study wagon and take care of business!!!! Thanks to all of you for your suggestions and support!!!

Good Luck Everyone!!!!!!!!!!! 🙂

Thanks Jimmy520 and AnasAG!!!!

For the 4/16 retake, I went old school! NO online test bank and abandoned the old textbook and flashcards. I picked up the Wiley textbook and studied like I’d never seen the material. I stayed away from the online test bank because I had memorized the MCQS, which was my undoing on 2/25. I went to A71 and made this original post for help and read about those who had audit success like @MCLKT, @Kricket, and so many others and felt inspired! I knew I had to change my method and committed to doing things differently.

I followed the prep suggestions in the beginning of the Wiley text to a T! At the start of each module in the book, they suggest to read the key terms at the end and then do 15-20% of the MCQS to get a baseline. Check. I took detailed notes as I went through each of the modules and stopped to do the MCQS when prompted along the way in the module as well as reading the audit standard in the back of the book when prompted. When I answered an MCQ incorrectly, I wrote the correct concept in 1-2 sentences in a separate notebook. I read that notebook over and over again. I recopied my Ninja Notes twice and listed to Ninja Audio everyday to/from work on my hour each way commute. This was SLOW and PAINFUL…especially though the hell of Tax season. I worked 28 days straight through the filing deadline pulling 10-11 hour days, only to come home and grind out the Wiley text at night. I was so desperate to pass that it didn’t matter that I was totally miserable! I had to pass!!!!

Wiley has a professional sounding term for an acronym I like to call RTMFQ! 😉 Read each question on test day 2-3 times before you even LOOK at the answer choices! Understand what they are looking for and run though your head what you know about it…then pick the best choice! Watch for EXCEPT, ONLY, ALL BUT…it will bite you in the ass if you aren’t careful. Use the AL tab for all of your sims! Try to leave yourself 2 hours for sims so you have time to use every drop of available info to give yourself the best chance of survival. That’s how I made it from a 61 to 92!

YOU can do this!!! The only way to fail these exams is to quit, so keep at it!!!!!!! Good luck to everyone!!!!!!!!!! 🙂