Rant

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  • #203583
    hasy
    Participant

    I just need to rant, because I hate how this makes me feel. The feeling that you failed means that you passed? There were questions that out of the leftfield and I did just guess on them. I left one sim nearly blank and I feel so bad about that because I felt that I could answer it, but ran out of time. The clock was counting down past 10 seconds and I was still plugging zeros. Instead, I think I managed to finish the DRS one, which will probably be untested. 🙁 It’s so hard to gauge the difficulty of the testlets too. Second was noticably harder but the third seemed tolerable despite a good chunk of questions that I just legit guessed.

    This is my second time taking the FAR exam, and I literally went into this test, trending 84-86 on NINJA (maybe not on gov’t) after going through the ENTIRE thing once. If I don’t pass, I need another test bank, because I’m pretty sure that I’ll do the same with the NINJA testbank, since most of the problems are familiar to me. Will I ever pass this exam? [drowns in self-doubt]

    AUD - 83
    BEC - 80
    FAR - 83
    REG - 78
    BEC - 80 (Roger + NINJA MCQ + WTB)

    FAR - 72; 83 (Roger + NINJA MCQ)

    AUD - 83 (Roger + NINJA MCQ + WTB)

    REG - 52; 78 (Roger + NINJA MCQ)

    Ethics - 68, 96 (how I dislike you)
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    BEC 80 (10/23/15)
    FAR 72 (4/2/15); 83 (7/11/16)
    REG 52 (4/28/15)
    AUD (9/9/16)

    Roger + NINJA MCQ + WTB

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  • #786229
    CPA2BEE
    Participant

    Sounds like my FAR retake. Really hard second testlet, brutal SIMS I was sure that I bombed – wound up with an unexplainable 80. The increase in difficulty is always a good sign. With a 72 last time and high trending score, I bet you have a good hold on the material so if you found the SIMS difficult, most people probably did. I'm sure you did fine, good luck!

    CA CPA - est. Dec 2016

    FAR - 80
    AUD - 82
    BEC - 80
    REG - 85

    ETHICS - 90
    EXPERIENCE - COMPLETE
    Application for California license mailed 8/4/2016

    #786230
    Claudia408
    Participant

    Nobody knows for sure, but is the consensus that DRSs are not scored?

    I think the pretest questions have a lot to do with the feeling of not passing but actually passing. What I don't understand is how anyone consistently says “I know I failed” but gets 85+ on all 4 sections and passed all 4 in one attempt. Are they that clueless about their performance or just need reassurance/their egos stroked? Back to your performance…lol… if you had at least one difficult testlet and did decent on SIMs, I think you probably did enough to pass.

    BEC 65, 71, 75
    AUD 62, 70, 78
    REG 67, 66, 65, 66, 64
    FAR 68, 64, 73

    BEC - 75 (3x)
    AUD - 78 (3x)
    REG - 67, 66, Aug 1
    FAR - 54, Sept 8

    #786231
    bhunt815
    Participant

    Keep your chin up. I left FAR feeling totally dejected and had already accepted my fate as a re-tester and ended up passing. And like you, I ran out of time while i was filling in blanks on the last couple SIM's. I didn't feel great about Audit either, and I'm also unsure about BEC which I took last week, but I'll assume I passed until/unless I hear otherwise.

    AUD - 79
    BEC - 81
    FAR - 84
    REG - 78
    Becker Self Study supplemented with Ninja MCQ's for BEC and REG.

    Licensed CPA in Louisiana.

    FAR 04/11/2016 - 84
    AUD 05/12/2016 - 79
    BEC 07/06/2016 - 81
    REG 08/29/2016

    #786232
    Sang
    Participant

    I hope your trending score of 84-86 carry over to the exam.
    Good luck on passing!

    FAR: (5/24/16) | (7/16/16)

    AUD: (9/07/16)

    BEC: TBA

    REG: TBA

    FAR: (05/24/16) | (07/15/16) | (10/22/16)
    AUD: (09/07/16) | (11/29/16) |
    BEC: TBD
    REG: TBD
    Using Roger CPA Review + Ninja (MCQs, Notes, Audio)

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