REG – Exam Experience - Page 3

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  • #169273
    jeff
    Keymaster

    We have a lot of “I took __ today threads” so to consolidate, here is the official thread.

    Please – Not even a hint of exam disclosure per AICPA rules.

    AUD

    BEC

    FAR

    AUD - 79
    BEC - 80
    FAR - 76
    REG - 92
    Jeff Elliott, CPA (KS)
    NINJA CPA | NINJA CMA | NINJA CPE | Another71
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  • #854899
    Tcohle
    Participant

    Average about an 80 and trending 87.
    Ninja exam scores were in upper 80s.

    Actual Exam:

    T1-Pretty easy. Finished in 25 min. Maybe 3 I wasn’t sure about
    T2-Trickier questions littered with some medium questions. Flagged more but again maybe 5 I was unsure of.
    T3-Same as T2

    Noticed questions in T2 and T3 were harder, not necessarily longer. But I had to pay real close attention to what they were asking.

    Sim 1:Only had one tricky cell which I think I got right.
    Sim 2-Research:Very sure I got right
    Sim 3 Tricky but I think I got all right
    Sim 4 Pretty sure I got right
    Sim 5:Long but I think I got right
    Sim 6: I was dumb and made a change last second as I second guessed myself!! So 2 out of 6 blanks I got wrong

    I thought I did good enough to pass on my last try and I got a 74. 72 on the first try. I busted my butt re-learning everything again. I know I missed some mcq and that last part of the sim.

    AUD - 84
    BEC - 75
    FAR - 76
    REG - 87
    Ninja Notes/MCQ/Book/Audio for all

    FAR- 5/11/15 76!!
    AUD-10/31/15 63, 84!
    REG-7/12/16 72
    BEC-8/31/15 75!! Perfect Score!

    Wiley CPAExcel Platinum
    Ninja 10 pt combo for FAR/AUD/BEC

    #1262479
    diabloargentino
    Participant

    oh man – this section really deflates me. i failed with a 72 in Q2, just took it again yesterday. i did a fine job studying – a bit strategically as i work 50+ hours a week and rarely have a full free weekend between weddings, other matters, etc. focused on big concepts, a level below and as many exceptions as i could handle. on stuff like AMT/corporate AMT, i went through once or twice and that's it as it wasn't clicking but at worst would be 1-2 MCQ and god forbid a simulation (but i'd have the code to look up, at least).

    anyway – i just feel like how i was able to perform yesterday didn't reflect the time i put in. less than 1/3 of the questions were ones i knew right off the bat without thinking twice and i found myself flagging at least half the testlets to come around to. generally found the questions to be very narrow. the simulations – while i didn't think the specific topics were extremely tough, there were nuances all over the prevented me from executing them well. maybe i'm just a bad test taker, maybe i didn't study enough or maybe it's the exam but i walked out feeling down. i enjoyed the DRS truthfully, while it had a lot of content to go through, the format was easy to follow and i was able to work my way through it.

    #1262890
    Anonymous
    Inactive

    I have done well in all the other exam parts, but I have never really been able to say that the testlets got more difficult. The same goes for this exam. I didn't notice the test getting harder as I went, but I feel great about the MCQ. I was very worried before the test because there was so much flipping detail to remember. But I thought the test was fabulously fair in its expectations. I think if my score was based on only the MCQ, I'd have a 98.

    The sim's though, man, I was bewildered by 3 of them. I still think the test was great, I really don't have any gripes about the difficulty or fairness of it. My blowing 3 of the sim's is entirely due to me not knowing those topics well enough. I might not have even blown them- I might have approached them correctly… but I just couldn't remember enough to be sure whether I was doing the whole thing right, or the whole thing wrong. Of the other three sim's, I disliked the research question the most. It took me 45 minutes! I think I put in 20, then told myself to move on, but I had enough time at the end to come back to it. By the end, I am sure I got that one right, but holy smokes I had a hard time finding the information I needed. The last two sim's I felt good about. One, actually, helped me to learn a topic even better than I had understood it before the test, which was actually pretty cool. The book had described the topic, but as I only did MCQ's, I never got to see a whole spreadsheet type of scenario that really tied the information together. I actually had fun doing that one!

    Even after spending 45 minutes on the research question, I finished 24 minutes early.

    I thought REG was the second hardest topic. FAR was a beast, and definitely the worst. But REG also had so much material and so much detail, and the way some topics like basis or AMT kept coming up but in slightly different ways for personal/partnership/S-Corp/C-Corp, well that just made it a nasty. But I thought it was the best test, if that makes sense? FAR had 6 or more questions that had terms or topics I had never heard of, even checked when I was done and they were not in the book. AUD and BEC each had several questions that I was like, I'm not really sure what you mean, but maybe I can approach this logically and maybe my answer is good. But every question on REG was on a subject that I had seen. I didn't remember everything I needed to know, which is on me, but there wasn't anything that I thought was BS.

    #1262995
    jpowell31
    Participant

    i know what you mean bet10…in being fair. because i felt that way with the one i just sat. this was a retake and my first one as you saw was just…cruel, MCQ never got harder and there were concepts i'd never heard of and still haven't after restudying and supplementing my materials so am convinced i got some bogus test ha. The SIMs will never allow you to feel too confident leaving an exam. i want to be cautiously optimistic when everyone at work asks me how it went but i'm sick of the “oh i just KNOW you passed, you did GREAT!” comments. it makes the possibility of having to tell them i failed worse…fingers crossed that's not something i have to do!

    i can't remember – is this it he last of them for you @bet10?

    -__-
    #1263513
    Anonymous
    Inactive

    @jpowell31 – yes, last one for me. You make a good point about how different tests cover different material. I hadn't considered that, and now I feel profoundly relieved that I didn't get your first test.

    I do know what you mean about receiving the “I'm sure you did great” comments – but I also know that that is pretty much what I say to others because, well, what the heck are you going to say? “You seem like a three-peat to me, so don't get your hopes up.” haha. In the end, I don't think others judge us as harshly on our test failures as we do to ourselves. I know several people IRL who have had to take sections multiple times, and they are smart and awesome to work with and will be great auditors or accountants or probably whatever else they choose. And you can tell they feel a little embarrassed over a non-pass, but really, it isn't their scores that make me like them or feel respect for them. That's probably true of your co-workers also, so I wouldn't worry about that aspect of it. Besides, I'm sure you did fantastic! 🙂

    #1274638
    ShutUp
    Participant

    Sooo (copy and paste from my last post) I took reg yesterday, and it suckeddddd. I know I’ve complained about every test so far, so here’s my breakdown…

    Testlet one – The usual medium testlet, started to get nervous that a memorized all the ninja answers, but calmed down.
    Testlet two – noticeably harder
    Testlest three – More like testlet two that one.

    But then the sims… ugh the sims… The sims I got were very poorly worded and open-ended. that being said , I totally f’ed up and got 1 of the 6 completely wrong.

    Do you think its plausible to think I did okay with a 0 on a sim?

    AUD - 88
    BEC - 89
    FAR - 89
    REG - 80
    I ate a bowl of nails for breakfast...

    without any milk

    FAR - May 23rd (24th, Prometric power outage) - 89 ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)>⌐■-■
    AUD - July 18th - 88 ┴┬┴┤( ͡° ͜ʖ├┬┴┬
    BEC - August 29th (☞゚ヮ゚)☞
    REG - TBD ಠ_ಠ

    "You better cut the pizza into 4 pieces because im not hungry enough to eat 6!"

    #1274661
    So FAR So Good
    Participant

    @ShutUpStupid – Absolutely. I know I got one totally wrong in Audit and I passed. Even if you only got 5/6 and rocked those, you'll still be pretty solid.

    AUD - 91
    BEC - 85
    FAR - 91
    REG - 86
    .

    F - 91 (6/5/2016)
    A - 7/30/2016
    R - 10/8/2016
    B - 12/10/2016

    #1274700
    ShutUp
    Participant

    @sofarsogood, passed, you got a 91! i feel alot better about my test then haha, Thanks

    AUD - 88
    BEC - 89
    FAR - 89
    REG - 80
    I ate a bowl of nails for breakfast...

    without any milk

    FAR - May 23rd (24th, Prometric power outage) - 89 ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)>⌐■-■
    AUD - July 18th - 88 ┴┬┴┤( ͡° ͜ʖ├┬┴┬
    BEC - August 29th (☞゚ヮ゚)☞
    REG - TBD ಠ_ಠ

    "You better cut the pizza into 4 pieces because im not hungry enough to eat 6!"

    #1275091
    ImmoKnight
    Participant

    I don't know how I did other than feeling frustrated. I spent nearly 50+ hours between Gleim and Ninja in addition to the time I put in to get my original 66 by using Gleim exclusively (which was probably more than 50 hours.) It has tested my psyche throughout as I tried to remember arbitrary number after arbitrary number. It was fruitless because the numbers are freaking abstract and change constantly and is at the behest of Senate which means it will never really be truly understandable.

    My exam experience…

    Testlet 1 – Medium
    Testlet 2 – Medium
    Testlet 3 – Medium

    Maybe it got harder but I didn't notice it. This frustrates me to no end and makes me feel ever positive that I failed. I was zooming through the testlets. Finishing a set in 20 minutes and then spending 5-10 minutes reviewing my answers to see if I could live with them or not. I had about 1 hr and 35 minutes heading into the sims.

    The battle truly started when I faced the SIMS. I saw some familiar topics and some that were fairly difficult. The research question tripped me up a lot… And I couldn't find it for 15-20 minutes… Up until I finally did.

    I felt decently to good about 2 sims… The other 3 were difficult, vague and frustrating.

    Any opinions of my performance? I can't imagine my doing well on the MCQ to receive questions that I could only perceive as medium difficulty with maybe 1 or 2 difficult ones thrown in to make me think I am doing decently.

    I don't know what I am going to do if I fail this time. I had a contingency plan last time to include Ninja and hope that would be enough to pass a retake… I am also planning to take BEC on December 9th which means a 3rd retake for REG is going to be brutal and I would likely need to start anew which will undoubtably suck a lot.

    AUG 85 - March 2016
    FAR 77 - June 2016
    REG 66, 82 (With Ninja MCQ + Ninja Plus lectures added to Gleim primary study) - September/October 2016
    BEC 80 - (With Gleim + Ninja MCQ the last 2 weeks) December 2016

    AUD: 85 (3/8/16)
    FAR: 77 (6/7/16)
    BEC: ??? (9/7/16)
    REG: ???

    #1275160
    njvath
    Participant

    Took REG today…

    Testlet 1 – Medium
    Testlet 2 – Medium
    Testlet 3 – Medium

    I didn't notice the testlets getting harder, maybe more “wordy” or “tricky” though. There were a few MCQ topics I remember going over but not in too much detail and I definitely had to guess on these.



    @ImmoKnight
    , my REG test sounds like yours…I had the same issue with the research question, couldn't find it forever. (On a side note – the research questions drive me crazy because the search feature is so inferior to modern day search engines and I spend most of the time thinking “in the real world I would have found the answer immediately with Google”)! The rest of the sims were topics that I recognized but either with a twist or I did't remember specifics on the topic but I wouldn't say they were extremely difficult like I have heard. I ended up running out of time on the last sim and just filling in blanks 🙁

    I know everyone says they feel like they failed but my gut feeling walking out of the exams has been right on every time so far and it's telling me that I didn't pass. I feel awful because I want this to be totally over, I want my life back! I think my downfall was spending too much time reviewing the BLaw material (with Becker it's 3 chapters with lots of detail!) since it was only worth 20% of the exam and not dedicating more time to Tax…I kept reading people on the forum saying “you have to know it all” so I spent a good part of the last week memorizing BLaw but if I had to relive the last week I would have spent all my time in Tax. Hindsight is 20/20 right?

    Becker

    FAR - 76
    AUD - 74, 74
    BEC - 83
    REG - TBD

    #1284756
    Key522
    Participant

    Retook REG for the third time I blew through the MCQs faster than I planned I knew I wanted to have at least 1.5 hours for the SIMs end of with even more time. The SiIMs were more reasonable this time I used the IRC to confirm some of my answers. I averaged 78 and my treanding score was 86 for NINJA. I hope I was over prepared instead of getting easy MCQs.

    AUD - 85
    BEC - 84
    FAR - 77
    REG - 80
    BEC - Feb 2015 68 April 2015 84

    FAR - July 2015 77

    AUD - Oct 2015 74 Feb 2016 71 April 2016 85

    REG - Jan 2016 67 July 2016 74 Oct 2016 80

     

    BEC Feb 2015 68 - rematch Apr 2015 - 84
    FAR July 2015 77
    AUD Oct 2015 74 Feb 2016 71 April 2016 85
    REG Jan 2016 67 July 2016

    #1290505
    NeedsA75
    Participant

    I retook REG yesterday after getting a 74 the first time. MC was super tricky and random compared to the first attempt. Sims were much more manageable this time. I nailed the research question which I missed the first time as well as bombing a few of the other questions.

    Overall I only needed one point of improvement. I definitely improved on the sims but may have taken a step back on the MC. Not sure where that leaves me other than very frustrated…

    AUD - 96
    BEC - 86
    FAR - 76
    REG - 92
    PETH - 92
    Licensed in California

     

    #1290517
    ShutUp
    Participant

    @needsa75, I felt like my MCQs were extremely random as well. I feel like they experimenting on the test until 2017 :(((

    AUD - 88
    BEC - 89
    FAR - 89
    REG - 80
    I ate a bowl of nails for breakfast...

    without any milk

    FAR - May 23rd (24th, Prometric power outage) - 89 ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)>⌐■-■
    AUD - July 18th - 88 ┴┬┴┤( ͡° ͜ʖ├┬┴┬
    BEC - August 29th (☞゚ヮ゚)☞
    REG - TBD ಠ_ಠ

    "You better cut the pizza into 4 pieces because im not hungry enough to eat 6!"

    #1290531
    NeedsA75
    Participant

    @shutupstupid Sounds like you did good on your MC though. I had to completely guess at a handful of questions (granted I'm sure some of those had to be pre-test questions) and make educated 50-50 guesses on at least 10-12 more. As a percentage, I feel like I couldn't have got more than 70% of the MC right.

    At least I was able to competently able to answer all the sims this time and get the research question correct. Last time I was literally guessing on a few of the sims as time was expiring and I still got a 74. On the fence if I passed this time. Don't even want to think about failing again after getting a 74 the first time

    AUD - 96
    BEC - 86
    FAR - 76
    REG - 92
    PETH - 92
    Licensed in California

     

    #1290612
    NeedsA75
    Participant

    Anyone else out there who took REG in Q4 and thought the MC was tricky and hard? I breezed through the MC in Q3 and bombed the sims. This exam felt the opposite.

    I'm curious to hear from people who thought they didn't do great on the MC and still passed. I feel like I'm doomed to another 74 despite a vast improvement on simulation performance.

    AUD - 96
    BEC - 86
    FAR - 76
    REG - 92
    PETH - 92
    Licensed in California

     

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