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I’m curious to see how many hours we all honestly and truly study for these exams. Of course, no one’s probably going to have an exact figure…and it will vary based on the exam, on prior experience with the familiar, how good/recent our education was, etc., but if anyone else is willing to share their confessions (whether too much or too little!), I’m curious how it compares to the “recommended” study times. Maybe pair the study time with score obtained?
Also I would separate focused studying vs things like listening to audio while driving. It’s a great thing to do…but of course it’s not as focused on sitting down with books or lectures and focusing solely on studying!
Note: The goal here is neither to brag or to chide, just to get an idea of “real” people timing, to give people a better idea of what the range is. I’ve heard 100-200 hours being recommended depending on the test, but I’ve gathered that in reality, that varies from just a few to several hundred depending on the person!
Anyway…for me…
Study materials: Wiley books, Wiley test bank, occasional supplements with other free trials etc
For FAR, I studied approx 50-60 hours, passed with 83. I had 3 or 4 college classes that covered the material in this exam approx 1 year before the exam
For AUD, I’ve got about 40 hours in, and will get up to an additional 10 hours (probably less) between now and when I test day-after-tomorow. Only had 1 auditing class, but it really “clicked” when I took it.
For BEC, man, I can’t remember. 😐 I’m guessing around 40 hours total. Passed with an 81. Had a lot of business classes in college, and 2 cost accounting classes.
For all 3 above, I listened to audio a bit, but my car is too loud to hear it well…so I haven’t counted that in the above totals, probably was just about 3 hours per test. The times above are just “real” study time.
REG is the one that scares me, because my taxes classes was a joke (open-book, grade entirely based on final exam, and almost exclusively over individual taxation), and my business law class wasn’t any better (evening class, 3 credits, met for 10-15 minutes a week…2 exams, each took about 15 minutes…). So I expect my study time to go up drastically when I study for REG!
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