[sar_rah]

Its been a nice month hiatus from being on this site like a psycho since stressing over my FAR exam which I recently found out I PASSED!

Now onto my next victim, BEC! How long should I study for it? Just as some insight, I took 7 weeks full time to study for FAR and probably put 300 hours into it (which I know, most would say thats a major overkill). I now know I could’ve gotten away with less if I studied smarter, but it was my first and I didn’t know what I was doing and I was nervous and just really wanted to pass.

ANYWAY! Now I will be back to being a full time masters student and working part time in the fall and not sure how I will be able to study with everything going on. How long should I give myself to study BEC? What kind of schedule should I put myself on? I know full time it should only take 3.5-4 weeks, but with a full life I have no idea.

I’d appreciate any input 🙂

AUD: 98
REG: 91
BEC: 86
FAR: 83

DONE DONE DONE and DONE all on the first try! It IS possible, just keep on studying!

[silvercamaro77]

The same way everyone else does- you have to cut some of your life (probably social life, could be some sleep, etc) to put the time in to study. Jeff's suggestion of getting up an hour early to study first thing, an hour at lunch, and an hour in the evening is fairly painless for most people.

For me with a husband, 3.5 year-old, 2 year-old, full-time accounting career (40-50 hours/per week), and a two-hour round trip commute each day, I'm already getting up at 4AM each morning so my body refuses to get up any earlier, so I spend my morning getting ready, getting the kids ready, trying to clean up from breakfast (typically instant oatmeal/ cold cereal), then taking kids to daycare and driving myself to work. I can usually handle 15 mins or so of audio studying on the way in and the way home, then I study about 30 mins at work (I typically work through lunch, so taking 30 mins is my compromise). When I get home around 6PM, hubby has dinner ready so we eat and clean up dinner together, then I get the 2 year-old ready for bed and tuck him in around 6:45PM and do the same for the 3.5 year old around 7:15PM. I get ready for bed, spend about 30 mins or so with hubby then study til about 9:30PM.

Sometimes the 3.5 year-old goes straight to bed and sometimes she gets up and down until 8PM so the amount of evening studying varies. Also, after 3-4 days of this I usually fall asleep during hubby time and go to bed earlier. Laundry, grocery shopping, and all the other things that keep a house running (other than dishes) have to wait until the weekend. On the weekend if it's a good nap day I can do about an hour of study time, if it's a bad nap day I might not do any.

The biggest thing is you have to decide that you're going to just do it no matter how stinking hard it is.

AUD- 95
FAR- 75
BEC- 83
REG- 85

Officially done! Exclusively used NINJA for BEC, REG, and FAR

[jbarwick]

I am currently on an 8 week BEC study plan with roughly 10-15hrs a week studying. So far it is the easiest material with overlapping FAR and AUD concepts thrown in.

Journey Started - January 2015
FAR - 4/2015 - Passed
AUD - 7/2015 - Passed
BEC - 8/2015 - Passed
REG - 11/12/2015 - Passed

[Author]

Replies