[Bear-Bear]

Particularly the Tax portion, which is freaking 50% of the content. I am struggling BIG time retaining all the various exemptions, cutoffs, limits, exceptions, etc. I am failing the %&#$ out of the MCQs on Wiley, and the SIMS are even worse. Even on the off chance that I do understand a particular lesson, I can’t retain the knowledge the next day. I didn’t encounter this on FAR or BEC.

Questions are as follows:

1) Did anyone encounter this while studying REG? How did you end up doing?

2) Next week begins my 3 weeks of solid Ninja MCQ before exam day. Do I have any reason to believe hammering MCQs will help me learn/remember this material when the CPAExcel lessons have not?

I’d really appreciate any input…I’m not feeling confident at all right now.

FAR - PASS
BEC - PASS
REG - PASS
AUD - PASS

Done and licensed!

[Broag]

These exams can be really frustrating. Preparing for them can even be more frustrating at times. What I did for REG was I went through my Becker book, took VERY detailed notes on chapters 1-4 (All topics on taxation). I went over Bus Law very lightly. I then re-wrote my notes two or three times. After doing that, I just kept rereading my notes and drilled Ninja MCQ. Got me over the hump. I find that writing notes and then rewriting them again and again does two things. 1) it cements the info in your brain and 2) makes studying a little more bearable because you feel like you're doing real work.

REG - 79
FAR - ?
AUD - ?
BEC - ?

[mtaylo24]

What I found this last spin of REG was less was more. I focused on book questions which were like 30 a chapter instead of the 200+ per chapter that the online testbank covers. This was with Gleim, I also printed out 2015 Wiley book questions, I have the pdf, and worked those. The good thing with this was that I could write down my calculations, so it made the second run less time consuming.

I did do the online TB first, but I felt the book question process was more productive, since I could bump up my repetition. I kind of wish that I had time to master the book first, then move onto the online TB, but I only gave myself two weeks from my BEC attempt to sit for REG. HOWEVER, I still am not confident about my exam, from Tuesday due to 1.) some non-tax section MCQs and 2.) the freaking simulations, 2 research, two obscure topics, the other two I may have gotten.

CPA (2017)

REG:  75

BEC:  76

FAR:  77

AUD: 78

 

CMA (2019)

P1: 380

P2: 360

AUD - 1st - 60 (12/12), 61 (2/13), 61 (8/13), 78! (11/15)
REG - 55 (2/16) 69 (5/16) Retake(8/16)
BEC - 71(5/16) Retake (9/16)
FAR - (8/16)

[SaveBandit]

I really recommend the free youtube Roger videos for partnership taxation. That didn't click for me until I watched those. Just Google it, and the videos should pop up.

AUD - 94
BEC - 86
FAR - 85
REG - 90

If you pray enough, you can turn yourself into a cat person.

4 for 4

FAR 85
AUD 94
BEC 86
REG 90

[Anonymous]

The MCQ will get you thinking about the concepts and it will call come together. I barely passed Reg (Audit background) and had problems retaining the tax rules as well. Keep reviewing notes and hammer out MCQ. The Ninja Notes really helped since it's a high level overview of the important items. 3 weeks of review is more than adequate but keep hammering out MCQ.

[Author]

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