[CPA2BEE]

Becker Question –

So I’m finishing up R4 right now and I gotta say R3 and R4 are absolute nightmares, I mean wow. Corpoarte tax, Property tax, Partnership tax, Estate tax – I work tax and I am still going through this like W-T-F! After R4 I have Professional Responsibilities and then three chapters of Bus Law. Somebody please make me feel better and tell me that I’ll be able to breeze through the second half of this book and that it gets better after R4. If the whole book is this tough, REG will for sure be up there with FAR in the info overload department. I am mainly just whining cause its my last test and I’m drained from tax season and I am really just going nuts.

Shout out to all my tax peeps today! Have a beer while you study tonight…

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

[Martin]

CPA2BEE, we have similar grades and attempts on the other 3 parts. The only advice I can give you for Reg is that the first 5 Becker chapters cover 80% of the exam. The last 3 cover 20%, so you can go a bit faster on the Business law chapters. I chose to go slow and make flash cards of everything important Peter mentioned on the law chapters. It is very time-consuming, but I can score above 86% on my first pass through the questions. I did this cause I can afford to study 10 hours per day, and I can not afford to fail Reg because I did not master the Blaw chapters. If I was working full time, I would go a bit faster on the Law chapters and focus on the first 5 chapters like i mentioned before.

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“You never fail until you stop trying.”
― Albert Einstein
When I was young, I used to admire intelligent people;as I grow older, I admire kind people.
“Just keep swimming, just keep swimming.”

FAR= 72-84
Audit= 73-82
BEC= 74-75
Reg=77

[rithzz]

R3 and R4 are probably the toughest, and most important chapters.

AUD: 78
BEC: 81
FAR: 73, 85
Reg: 84

[CPA2BEE]

@rithzz I see you took REG yesterday, how did it go?

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

[Anonymous]

I echo what Martin said. do NOT overkill bizlaw- it is only 20% of REG exam yet takes up almost half of the Becker book- completely misleading. I skipped the last two chapters of Becker and got a 91/92 on REG if that helps. Caveat: I work in tax.

[Martin]

eesti, do you think Becker did a good job at teaching REG despite the fact that you have Tax experience? Did you have to supplement their test bank with ninja?

Through God all things can happen!

“You never fail until you stop trying.”
― Albert Einstein
When I was young, I used to admire intelligent people;as I grow older, I admire kind people.
“Just keep swimming, just keep swimming.”

FAR= 72-84
Audit= 73-82
BEC= 74-75
Reg=77

[EuroAddict]

I love peoples stance on “just breeze thru biz law it's only 20%” and “I failed b/c I didn't study biz law enough”.

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BEC - 77, 03/2015 (first try)
FAR - 79, 05/2015 (second try)
REG - 83, 12/2015 (first try)
AUD - 84, 03/2015 (first try)

I got 99 problems but the CPA ain't one.

[S1CPA]

@euro, I personally believe I failed because I didn't study business law enough.

AUD - 80 April 2015
FAR - 77 August 2015
REG - 60 October 2015, 73 May 2016, 75 July 2016
BEC - 79 January 2016

[mtaylo24]

Same here…I got weaker on Prof responsibilities and BLAW 🙁

CPA (2017)

REG:  75

BEC:  76

FAR:  77

AUD: 78

 

CMA (2019)

P1: 380

P2: 360

AUD - 1st - 60 (12/12), 61 (2/13), 61 (8/13), 78! (11/15)
REG - 55 (2/16) 69 (5/16) Retake(8/16)
BEC - 71(5/16) Retake (9/16)
FAR - (8/16)

[Martin]

Just for the record I never told him to skip B-law and eesti agreed with me. eesti was able to skip the last two chapters and passed because he/she has tax experience and the first 6 Becker chapters should be around 86% of the exam. I think Blaw is for Reg what Gov and NFP is for far. You will only pass if you are solid on taxes and Ethics.

Through God all things can happen!

“You never fail until you stop trying.”
― Albert Einstein
When I was young, I used to admire intelligent people;as I grow older, I admire kind people.
“Just keep swimming, just keep swimming.”

FAR= 72-84
Audit= 73-82
BEC= 74-75
Reg=77

[CPA2BEE]

20% of the exam is substantial enough to need to know it reallllllly well IMO

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

[Anonymous]

i only had the Becker REG book- i used solely NINJA for REG MCQ and i found them phenomenal with links and walkthru examples that show how the answer was deduced. best $47 i ever spent.

[Anonymous]

this bizlaw thing is a non-issue. stop freaking out people. you didnt fail because you didnt study biz law enough you failed because you didnt study tax thus weren't prepared for 80% of the exam content enough.

it is a complete non-issue.

i am simply suggesting that because Becker's book is half biz law and half everything else that does NOT mean devote half the time to biz law studying. because the other non-bizlaw stuff is 80% of the exam vs 20% for biz law, i would recommend placing 4 times as much emphasis on the former. just my 2 cents. knowing the intricacies of agency and bankruptcy ordering and all the stupid lil endorsements and commercial paper minutiae should not come at the expense of solid tax concepts. master those first: partnership tax, basis, corp tax, ind. tax is way more important than biz law. like i said it is a non-issue, non-subjective matter. read up on the CSO's which lists biz law @ 17-21% of the exam. not to mention that the SIMS are 100% tax based.

https://www.aicpa.org/becomeacpa/cpaexam/examinationcontent/contentandskills/downloadabledocuments/csos-ssos-effective-jan-2015.pdf

[monikernc]

eesti, i am about to start the bizlaw section in ninja. book is more than 200 pages and there are 750mcq's. it is a test unto itself to get through the material

AUD - 93
BEC - 82
FAR - 76
REG - 88

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FAR 7/25/15 76!
AUD 10/30/15 93
BEC 2/27/16 82
REG 5/23/16 88!
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and a little thing i like to call, time and effort!
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[rithzz]

@CPA2Bee
It was rough for me, Felt like I could narrow it down to two answers but had a hard time choosing the right one. If I had to do it again, I think I'd make sure I focus on the theory of stuff rather than computations/calculations.

Simulations were a lot easier than I expected though, which required calculations (as I expected).

AUD: 78
BEC: 81
FAR: 73, 85
Reg: 84

[Martin]

I was thinking the other day if eesti skipped almost everything from Business Law, and was able to get a 92% because he was very strong on Taxes and Ethics, then the exam he took was only 10% Business Law. It is very hard to guess a Business law questions (no logic) unless you have prior law experience. We will never know how this exam is really tested.

Through God all things can happen!

“You never fail until you stop trying.”
― Albert Einstein
When I was young, I used to admire intelligent people;as I grow older, I admire kind people.
“Just keep swimming, just keep swimming.”

FAR= 72-84
Audit= 73-82
BEC= 74-75
Reg=77

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