[Track55]

This is just a rant …

I have REG coming up and I am sure I will fail. There are two women I trust and all I get is “you worried in college and always passed every test”. Yes well, they don’t get four things:

1) This isn’t college. 2) My school was full of idiots, so it was easy to blow away the curve all 5 years. 3) I failed AUD, so I obviously don’t pass every test. and 4) The test is curved so that half the people fail.

I’m not gonna discuss these exams with anyone anymore. Whether I pass the next 4 exams – or fail the next 4 and get let go from my CPA firm – silence is golden.

Graduate school cannot possibly be this hard.

AUD - 99
BEC - 83
FAR - 86
REG - 92

California - Internal Audit

CPA since December 2016.

(took seven tries, 1 year 10 months).

AUD - 74, 99 !!
REG - 74, 92
BEC - 83
FAR - 73, 86

Studying for Ethics exam

California candidate
Business and Industry

[mla1169]

I realize it's frustrating and puts pressure on you, but for someone who hasn't been through the exams knowing the perfect response doesn't come naturally. Appreciate that they're trying to encourage you. If the biggest curse is that people believe in you that's not a bad thing.

FAR- 77
AUD -49, 71, 84
REG -56,75!
BEC -75

Massachusetts CPA (non reporting) since 3/12.

[Lion_of_the_Rock]

@Track…

Get some exercise. Drink a few beers. These tests are challenging, and stressful, but in the end, they're not anything that can't be overcome with hours spent with your butt in a chair working MCQs or reading a book.

And if you don't want to talk about the tests, I'd suggest just let everyone know that and things should be fine.

For what it is worth, I've heard from MBAs at B schools that the CPA exam is much harder.

My last bit is to not rush the tests or try to study too fast. Study at a pace that allows you to understand the material. Going too fast will probably just result in retakes. In the end, we're all heading to the same place so don't be in such a hurry, life is short.

BEC - 78
AUD - 75
REG - 74, 79
FAR - 75

You have to buy a ticket to win the raffle.

[Anonymous]

I am taking classes now to satisfy the 150 hours requirement. They are soooo easy compared to the CPA exam and it's not even close. I would not worry about other people because only we can understand. I went 6 months of taking the CPA exam without anyone at my job knowing. I made the mistake of mentioning it to someone and it got all around the office. Those last four month was not good because the pressure was on since everyone knew, Silence is a good strategy.

[Tripp11]

Unsolicited advice – just take a breath and realize that your situation isn't even in the same continent, let alone same zip code, as the struggles others have gone through to pass this exam.

There are people out there that have been sitting for this exam for over 20 years, and they still haven't passed it.

There are people who have battled a loss of a job, heath issues, divorces, loss of loved ones, etc… and they still grind and try to pass this exam.

Just don't get too discouraged or upset. This is your FIRST time taking your FIRST part.

AUD - 93
BEC - 80
REG - 86
FAR - 83

[Excel14]

At the end of the day, peoples' opinions matter little to your life. Something we all need to remind ourselves of.

What do they call an accounting person, who only managed a 75 on all four parts of the CPA exam....you got it, CPA!!!

BEC (2/28/16) ----- 78
FAR (09/10/16)-----
AUD
REG

CIA, CGAP, CFE

[Tripp11]

^ Well, until those people opining about you and your worth have a direct connection to influencing your merit at a firm. 🙂

Or a spouse, which when she has a poor opinion of me or what I've done – well, she can make my life a living hell.

AUD - 93
BEC - 80
REG - 86
FAR - 83

[Anonymous]

I've learned in life you want to be at the equilibrium in everything. Having a balance will get you through life the best way. If you are strictly book smarts chances are you have little to zero street smarts. If you are all street smarts and have no book smarts or education chances are you'll be working in a factory you're whole life or some other minimum wage job. For me personally, I've had an average GPA all throughout college, but before that I worked manual construction labor. It taught me a lot, common sense, direction, and not to be naive… especially in bad neighborhoods.

So I really think there is such thing as too smart, but at the same time there is such a thing as too dumb.

[Author]

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