AICPA Released Questions

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    IndianaCPA
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    Did anyone take the aicpa released questions exam right before their exam and score very close to their aicpa exam score? I scored an 80% on the 2006 exam and 72% on the 2013 exam. I have my financial exam in 2 days. Does this mean I am going to be right on the edge if passing? I noticed some of the questions were duplicated in Becker. So I might have scored lower if those questions weren’t in the aicpa exam.

    B 74, 79
    A 62, 81
    R 76
    F 75

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    Some of the questions from your studying will be duplicated on the real exam, too, or at least very similar. I wouldn't put too much stock into the scores, though, or worry too much about them, for two reasons: one, there's not enough AICPA released questions to get a really good feel (or at least the way that I had accessed them there weren't many). So, one question that you got wrong on the released questions will make a MUCH bigger difference in your score than 1 question that you get wrong on the real exam! The second and more important reason, though, is because the CPA exam isn't graded as a percentage. Getting a 75 could mean that you got 50% or that you got 90%, depending on the questions you had and on other variables that no one even knows and everyone just guesses at.

    To me the more important question would be why did you get wrong the ones that you did? If 25% of the material was completely foreign to you, then I would be worried about an exam in 2 days. However, if 25% of the questions were missed due to stupid errors or were a topic that you weren't quite sure about but are more certain of now, then I wouldn't be as worried.

    Not to mention that 2 days is still a LOT of time. It doesn't seem like it when you're looking at the clock tick down, but you can do a lot in 2 days. Make these last days count and you can rock that exam!

    (For what it is worth, though, I think I scored around 80% the couple times that I did the released questions things, and my scores were 79, 81, 83, and 91…so most of my scores were about 80's and I think that my times that I did the released questions I was right around or below 80%. Not sure which exams I did the released questions for, though, and not saying that there's necessarily any correlation.)

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    Anonymous
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    Some of the questions from your studying will be duplicated on the real exam, too, or at least very similar. I wouldn't put too much stock into the scores, though, or worry too much about them, for two reasons: one, there's not enough AICPA released questions to get a really good feel (or at least the way that I had accessed them there weren't many). So, one question that you got wrong on the released questions will make a MUCH bigger difference in your score than 1 question that you get wrong on the real exam! The second and more important reason, though, is because the CPA exam isn't graded as a percentage. Getting a 75 could mean that you got 50% or that you got 90%, depending on the questions you had and on other variables that no one even knows and everyone just guesses at.

    To me the more important question would be why did you get wrong the ones that you did? If 25% of the material was completely foreign to you, then I would be worried about an exam in 2 days. However, if 25% of the questions were missed due to stupid errors or were a topic that you weren't quite sure about but are more certain of now, then I wouldn't be as worried.

    Not to mention that 2 days is still a LOT of time. It doesn't seem like it when you're looking at the clock tick down, but you can do a lot in 2 days. Make these last days count and you can rock that exam!

    (For what it is worth, though, I think I scored around 80% the couple times that I did the released questions things, and my scores were 79, 81, 83, and 91…so most of my scores were about 80's and I think that my times that I did the released questions I was right around or below 80%. Not sure which exams I did the released questions for, though, and not saying that there's necessarily any correlation.)

    #541407
    jnathanson
    Member

    where can i find the released questions?

    #541441
    jnathanson
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    where can i find the released questions?

    #541409
    Anonymous
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    Google “AICPA Release Questions 20XX” for whatever year you are looking for. You'll find them with Becker's explanations.

    #541443
    Anonymous
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    Google “AICPA Release Questions 20XX” for whatever year you are looking for. You'll find them with Becker's explanations.

    #541412
    jnathanson
    Member

    thanks

    #541445
    jnathanson
    Member

    thanks

    #541414
    samdiegoCPA
    Member

    Yep, I do these and love them. Just finished 2012's again.

    I was just coming to the forum to ask when the 2014 ones will be released… anyone know!? Jeff?

    AUD: 84
    REG: 84
    BEC: 79
    FAR: 83

    #541447
    samdiegoCPA
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    Yep, I do these and love them. Just finished 2012's again.

    I was just coming to the forum to ask when the 2014 ones will be released… anyone know!? Jeff?

    AUD: 84
    REG: 84
    BEC: 79
    FAR: 83

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