[mjiorio]

I just took FAR a few hours ago and I am trying to figure out if there is any chance at all that I passed. Here are my thoughts on how I did:

Testlet #1 – Feel pretty confident, maybe guessed on 2-3 questions but otherwise went well

Testlet #2 – Much harder, not nearly as confident as #1 but able to make educated guess (narrowing down to at least 2 answers in most cases)

Testlet #3 – Medium difficulty. I don’t feel quite as confident as #1 but still feel like it went fairly well.

Simulations – WTF!?!? Literally had no idea pretty much on every single one. There was one that I feel I did decent on, and the other 5 were complete guesses (1 of which was essentially blank). Another sim might as well have been blank because I was just plugging nonsense answers to put something in. I definitely got the research question wrong, had no idea what the question was asking and could not find the answer in the literature for the life of me. I used Becker to study and I’m a little frustrated because these simulations I saw in the exam were absolutely NOTHING like beckers. On becker practice exams I was getting 85ish on the SIMS. Thought they were easy and quick (practice exam sims took me max 30 minutes). The actual exam was brutal, impossible topics and every single simulation was at minimum a full page of information (two of the sims had two additional tabs of information). Just reading them was a major chunk of my time. Using Becker I felt like for the most part I had drop down answers to choose from. Not the case on the exam. I didn’t have one sim with a drop down selection. All were plug in number simulations. Is this normal??

Ok. There is my post-exam rant. With that being said…is there any chance that I can pass this thing? I honestly feel like I put the hours in study wise but just got absolutely boned on the simulations.

Any encouragement is helpful…..Thanks.

BEC - 80 (7/2/2015)
FAR - 83 (8/26/2015)
REG - 75 (10/6/2015)
AUD - 1/16/2016