[Kim4]

I’d like to hear if anyone’s experience either confirms or denies my theory:

I felt terrible after leaving AUD. I do not think I did so well on the MCQs, but, I ended up doing very well on my overall exam score. Three of my SIMS were obscure and out of left field, so, obviously, being the good another71 reader that I am, I scoured the authoritative literature and found the answers. I probably got 90-100% of the answers correct on those sims because of the auth. literature. If I hadn’t used it, I would have probably gotten 25%-30% of those three sims right.

Here’s my theory:

Since

1. it helps you alot more to get the answer to a difficult question than an easy question (this has to be true, otherwise it would be completely unfair to have the exam get harder if you do well)

2. not alot of people know about the auth lit trick for the SIMS (mentioned in passing once in my Roger videos, and I haven’t seen this trick around much, except for here)

Therefore:

I think that the difficulty of the questions is based completely off of how well previous students have done, and not ranked by the AICPA independently. If the AICPA had independently ranked the questions by difficulty, then they would rank questions that you could find the answer to through the auth lit. as easy and not worth as much.

Another therefore — using the auth. lit on sims helps ALOT. It doesn’t just help you get a sim right, it helps you get what everyone else considers a difficult sim right, and that can make a significant difference in your score.

Any thoughts?

FAR -- 90
AUD -- 95
BEC -- 82
REG -- 92

DONE!

[forever4]

i remembered trying to use it for my FAR. did not work. couldnt find any of them there :(.

FAR 5/14 88 PASSED!
REG 7/13 74 :((((((((....! I cant believe it!!!! I studied so hard...
REG retake 11/29 -> 89!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
BEC 10/11/12 -> 84!!!!!!!!!!!!!
AUD 10/25/12 -> 95!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm DONE! OMG 8 months of hard work.

I SHALL PASS. BECAUSE IT'S ME, SO EVERYTHING WILL BE OK!

[gans555]

I agree but there is also more to it. Some of the sims you really just need practice at. For example, I am studying for REG and I have never filled out a 4797 form before. While I knew all the recapture rules, I literally did not know where to put anything on the form. After Wiley showed me the answer, it was a piece of cake. So I've come to ascertain that the sims are gonna be brutal no matter what. You can use the research tab but that's not gonna tell you how to fill out a form.

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