[Anonymous]

Hey everyone,

So I am in the middle of studying for FAR, and have been doing very well at this point. I have been scoring in the mid 80’s on all the Becker HW on the first run through and completed all lectures in 12 days 🙂 (I have no life)

I am scheduled to take the exam on July 2nd, and would like a way to help reinforce the topics before my exam. Thus, I have come to the A71 forums in an attempt to offer some help. If you are struggling with FAR topics, please make a post and let me know either the specific question or the topic you are struggling with and I will attempt to help you through it. I use to run tutoring groups in my undergraduate program and helping others learn the material always reinforced it well for me, so it will be a win-win.

Hope to hear from you!

[CPA2013]

Hi Adrost,

Question for you.. are you doing anything special besides watching the lectures that is helping reinforce issues and allowing you to score in the mid 80's the first time through? I'm currently in F7 and have averaged 65-75% the first time through. Also, now that I try to remember things from earlier lessons and they are almost wiped from my memory (although they make perfect sense when I go look them up again).

Try trying to see if there are any quick tips out there to reinforce lessons!

FAR: 91
BEC: August 10, 2013
REG: October 7, 2013
AUD: November 23, 2013

[Anonymous]

Hi HoosierCPA22,

In all honesty, I retained a significant amount of information from my intermediate accounting classes. My professor ran the live Becker courses in the past (which means he sat in a classroom and watched the same lecture videos as the students), from this, his method of teaching mirrored much of the Becker review. Thus, I find myself zoning out during lecture videos then taking the HW and recalling what my professor had said in the past. However, one thing that really helps is to take notes from the questions I do get wrong. I use OneNote (by Microsoft) to copy all the answers (not the questions) of the problems I answer incorrectly. I then review these before reattempting the missed problems. I used this same methodology for BEC and in two weeks of studying scored a 93.

Hope this helps!

[P or F.. I think Im gonna BARF]

I'd recommend doing Progress Tests of 90 MCQs, so that you see questions from all the topics instead of doing Unit by Unit… it's a lot easier to get questions right when they're all in the same subject matter as opposed to mixing it up. For the last 2 weeks going into FAR, I did 2-3 of these 90 MCQs practice tests each day to try and get myself ready for the pain of sitting through 3 hours of straight MCQs on the actual exam.

B - (08/29/2013) Passed
A - (07/02/2013) Passed
R - (10/17/2013) 73 - Rematch
F - (05/29/2013) Passed

[Spur]

Hey @adrost, how does this “I use OneNote (by Microsoft) to copy all the answers (not the questions) of the problems I answer incorrectly.” help you study? Specifically how does not writing the question help you study? Does it force you to recall the question?

FAR - Bad Fail '11, Fail '12, Fail '13, PASS It's a miracle!
AUD - Fail, PASS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
BEC - PASS!!!!!!!!
REG - PASS!!!!!!!! And I'm done!

[Anonymous]

@Spure – I essentially copy the information that explains why I didn't understand it the first time. Then I review that information and it helps me retain the true reasoning versus the simple memorization.

[qatar_cpa]

sleeping is killing me guys:( how many hours do you guys sleep?

FAR = 31 /August
REG = 30 /OCT
BEC = 28/NOV
Auditing = 01 Jan

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[Anonymous]

@qatar_cpa – I make an effort to get a minimum of 7 hours a night. Your brain needs time to reset and retain the information. I have studied on days where I don't get a good night sleep, and my retention rate is significantly lower. Get sleep, it's important.

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