@Yahmon
Everyone is going to have their own style that works best. This is what worked for me, though. I mostly followed the Gleim study plan. I used the scheduler which asks how much you study per week, what days you can't study, when your test date is, etc, which gave me a deadline for each chapter. If I missed a deadline I got a text on my phone telling me I'm behind. I did not do the “pre-quiz” for each section as I find it a waste of time since I've been out of school so long and don't remember much of anything. I also did not watch video lectures as I learn much better from reading. After I read the chapter start to finish, I followed the testing prompts in the program which usually means I did 2 MCQ testlets and 1 sim testlet. It only makes me do more if I did poorly on them. I skipped the written questions and just gave myself a good grade. Once it said I completed the section I went on to the next one. For final review, I just hammered my weak areas using “study sessions” of 20-30 MCQ's each and picking the sections/subsections I wanted. By the time I took the test I didn't have a single section or subsection below 75% average (not trending just overall average). I also reread the COSO and IT sections start to finish. I did the AICPA practice exam at some point. Study time was 3 months at like 15 hours a week. Got a great rest the night before the exam and ate a healthy breakfast. I'm a morning person so I do my exams first thing in the morning when my mind is clear.
Some of Gleim's sims for BEC were ridiculous. I scored like below 30% on a couple of them. If you run into the crazy hard ones I would just submit them blank and make sure you understand how they got the answer. Toughest sections for me were definitely COSO and IT. Gleim did not cover COSO in depth enough and IT is just so all-encompassing it's hard to prepare for.
FAR - 97 (10/12/17)
BEC - 95 (01/15/18)
AUD - 88 (04/06/18)
REG - 89 (11/16/18)
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