[Anonymous]

Found out today that I didn’t pass BEC with a 73. I am going to squeeze in my retake during mid-January. Any advice?

For my original test I studied with Becker and the Ninja Notes, Audio, & MCQ. I know that my weaker areas are cost accounting, finance, and IT so I plan on concentrating on those.

[RUGUY22]

For my retake of BEC, I went through all of the MCQs again (two or three times for my weak areas). I also purchased a new test bank (WTB) and went through all of those MCQs. Then I focused on the areas I feared the most (cost accounting and IT) by reading the text and creating flash cards for all the formulas. I went through the flash cards daily during my lunch breaks. That did it for me.

IL Candidate

AUD - 98 (11/11/13)
BEC - 69 (4/19/14); 83 (7/21/14)
FAR - 88 (11/26/14)
REG - 90 (2/26/15)

Ethics - 98 (3/9/15)

Using the CPAexcel review course and Wiley Test Bank.

[Anonymous]

Thanks 🙂 I'm hoping that if I really drill down on my weak areas and review what I'm comfortable with, that it will be enough

[Jasminekoko]

Hi to all and Ruguy22,

My weakest areas were IT, Corporate Governance, and Operations Management, stronger areas are Economics Concepts and Financial Management. I put lots of times ans effort into it and still failed with a 72. I passed it on my first try 77 back in 2008. So what were your methods of tacking the weakest areas? I just bought CPAExel yesterday so I'm going to focus on it as well as Becker materials. Should I just focus on MCQS? Should I rewatch lectures? Ect.. Please help. Thanks so much.

[super.senpai]

when i passed BEC, i noticed my questions were getting difficult because i had to apply certain formulas explained in beckers towards questions that looked foreign. i know that doesnt make sense but thats how it appeared to me. IT is important. MCQ is 80% get Ninja or any other available and relevant BEC MCQS you can. thats it.

BEC: 72,72, 77
AUD: 47, 63

[Jasminekoko]

Can you please advise on rh written communications in BEC? Thank you.

[Anonymous]

I scored “stronger” on written communication. I basically just watched Becker's video about it and reread the pages in the Becker book about it the night before the exam. I made sure that my intro was 1-2 sentences on what the memo was going to be about. Then I did 3 mini paragraphs of 3-4 sentences followed by a conclusion of 1-2 sentences. It is really important to pull information from what they are giving you in the task and include it in what you are writing. Hopefully that helps.

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