[Anonymous]

Anyone wants to share? lol 😉

[jomarie]

When I took FAR this past Tuesday I walked out with a headache. The next morning I had the same headache, or I was calling it a CPA Exam hangover. Then that evening the headache went away but I was having a CPA Exam study withdrawal. What am I going to do when I'm done???

Started sitting in May 2002, on and off. But since 2008 I've been nonstop and my scores are....
AUD - 39, 48, 56, 65, 68, 73, 76!!! (Finally passed in Oct 2011!!!) Becker, NINJA, & Wiley
REG - 75 (Lost Credit) 72, 68, 73, 75 (Passed again in Aug 2011) Becker, NINJA, & Wiley
FAR - 65, 68, 75 (Lost Credit) 68, 73, 73, 80 (Passed again in May 2012) Roger, NINJA, & Wiley
BEC - 65, 68, 71, 72, 72, 71, 76 (Lost Credit)- 70, 76!!!! I AM DONE!!! - Roger, NINJA, & Wiley
After 10 long years of studying, I AM DONE!!!! Finally a Licensed CPA in the State of New York!!

[Anonymous]

Yesterday I sat in the corner of my room for like 5 hours just thinking about how stupid I'am for getting sick and not being able to put together three simple memos. fml….I'm in emo mode for the next 2 months…

[Anonymous]

Well CPA terminator, I dunno about the two months. But let me tell you how retarded I was. After I took FAR on April 27, I cried for a week after and felt so depressed, I got only 3 hours of sleep each day for about a week. Also my dad got sick and so I regret not putting in more effort into the test.

So I was going under the mentality that if I fail, I would have to put in an extra two months to study and that I wouldn't spend time with dying family members. Also I wanted to check my score before I took Audit, so for some reason I thought it was a brilliant idea to move audit up 7 days to 23rd. That way, I wouldn't have to postpone checking my score for too long. Needless to say, I am sure I failed audit and I checked my score anyway before I took the test.

So on the 23rd, for California score release, I got my score and when I found out I passed, I felt a mixture of anger and happiness. So much wasted energy. So much stupidity and obsession. I feel with the extra 7 days, I might have passed Auditing WITH the time I could have spent studying instead of obsessing and feeling sorry for myself. I am so sure I failed hard because not only did they give me easy questions for the testlet(easy compared to the ones I have seen before), they gave me some of the SAME ones(or at least I really think so). Either adaptive testing made some errors, or it must have thought a stupid drunk was taking the test.

I was hoping this ends after the CPA exam. But after reading about the long hours at CPA firms, I got a little bit sad. oh well. such is life.

I have Reg next, I am in twilight zone. Too depressed to study, and too depressed to have fun. I watched Avengers yesterday, and seeing Captain America made me slightly happy.

[Anonymous]

I dont think anyone else understands your pain beside people in here. When I feel like crap i just come in here and read other peoples post and almost everyone else is in the same boat and knows what your going thru. It really sucks when you fail by a point or two!

But I dont understand how everyone is gaining weight while studying, what are you guys eating? I been losing weight! I am a guy…a really skinny guy. lol

[Anonymous]

chadkey, I dunno, I made some REALLY stupid (life) errors. My neighbor is mad at me for cursing so much since the exam process started. My room faces their house with my window just across from their living room window. Now everytime they see me, they just kind of look away. ughhh.

Also, I feel the majority of the people here are more sane compared to me. I was afraid even CPA exam takers wouldn't understand. Like wtf, that guy could have gone through the process just the same without freakin out, breaking things, cursing and breaking down etc. And it's true too. haha. But when I found this thread, I just needed to share my story.

[Anonymous]

@chakdey…most people gain weight for two reasons combined, eating craps and not exercising. I have gained 5 – 10lbs since I started this CPA thing. For some people 5-10lbs is not alot, but it is the muscle I lost matter. When you lost muscle and gain fat at the same time. It's not pretty! While studying for this boring exam, I ate foods I normally don't eat, stuffs like potato chips, candies, and coffee at afternoon with lots of creams, etc…If I pass this last one, I am going to buy myself a gym membership at 24 hours!

[Anonymous]

gyms do not work….go run at your local park! 50 push ups per day, 25 leg lifts, and 75 crunches…Gyms are for people who need steroids…just my $.04..

[Anonymous]

I most certainly walked out of REG depressed on Tuesday. Not only because I felt like I did terribly on the SIMS but because of everything that life has thrown at me all at once. It was just too much to handle. I did the best job I could and I really must pat myself on the back for having put forth a champion effort. Was it enough? Who knows?

I came away exhausted in every way…emotionally, physically, spiritually, etc. I had to basically push the mourning of my Mom's passing off intentionally and while that's what she would want me to do, it felt like a betrayal. I was so spent after the exam I had to pull off the interstate and into a parking lot for a while to gather myself.

I was so physically and mentally exhausted that when trying to talk to my wife that night, I was having trouble putting actual sentences together. So much so that she was worried I was having a stroke or something. I've slowly recouperated a little since Tuesday but am planning a fun weekend in the mountains hiking with family to take my mind off this.

If I pass, I will be the happiest person in the world and I will know that I overcame some pretty significant problems and odds to win.

If I fail, I hate to know what that will do.

[Anonymous]

@CPAterminator…I might combine running with weight lifting….it's odd, after last night (my last exam, hopefully), I feel like I am a woman who just gave birth to a baby. It's time to loss THAT weight!!!!!!!!!

[Anonymous]

no time for being depressed between school, work, job (or job-hunt), and staying active. its survival of the fittest, not the sad and lazy!

[Anonymous]

Definitely in the dumps. Thought I would feel better but just not caring about much of anything.

Trying to ignore that fact that even if I just passed REG (?) then I have to torture myself no less than 3 more times. Starting to wonder if it is worth it.

I have been undergoing a job search as well and the pay is atrocious in this area. I would do better to manage a Starbucks. This is already an excruciating process, but even less encouraging to know that external rewards are almost nonexistent.

Yes, I am cranky, tired and unmotivated.

[Anonymous]

@CPApending…sorry about your loss. you have done great on AUD and BEC, and I am sure you did great on REG as well. Even though you don't feel good about it, there is always a hope for a 75! Hey, we are here for 75, not for 85 or 95!

[Anonymous]

The day I took my last exam, my friends got a limo and took me out to celebrate me finishing my exams. While all this was happening, secretly I was depressed thinking that there was no way I would pass FAR. I was just hoping and praying that I some how I would pass so I don't have to tell my friends that the limo party was all for nothing and that not only would I have to retake FAR but I would have to retake REG as well since it expired with my failing of FAR.

Thank God somehow I passed FAR! I was so sad that night… felt like I wasted everyone's time and money all for nothing.

[Linds213]

Ugh, just took Audit yesterday and I have the worst CPA exam “hangover” I feel worse after the test than I did before, got some questions wrong that I should have known. Very frustrating!! The waiting process (for scores) is torture…here's to constantly clicking refresh praying my (passing) score appears!! Does anyone else have problems stopping themselves from scouring their study book looking for the answers to questions that were on the test? My family keeps telling me not to, but they don't understand……!

R -Passed
F- Passed
A- Passed
B-

**Lindsey

[mena je twa]

Lindsey…

You are scoring in the mid 90's —- you can't ask for any better then this? but you can a 96,97,98 & 99 is left:)-

Take it easy, i felt the same way when i took all of these exams several times. One time i was looking for BEC answers in books/ internet for a week after the exam. And then eventually i gave up after i could not remember the questions…

Licensed CPA, Texas - 2012

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