Took Reg today as well, and it sounds like we had a similar experience. My sims were very tough, but fair, as the material they dealt with was covered by Becker at least in part. Still had to dig through the IRC on most of them to figure out how to approach them. I'm positive that I got at least one sim completely wrong, and probably didn't score near perfect on any of the others. I did have two fairly straightforward research questions. Although, according to Becker, since I got two research sims, only one of them is probably going to count due to one of them being a pretest question. It's a shame, because the research sims were the only 2 sims I was 100% confident on.
I also did not feel like each MC testlet got significantly more challenging as I went on, which worried me quite a bit. However, this statement from the AICPA put me at ease somewhat:
“Multiple-choice testlets vary in difficulty—there are two levels that are labeled ―medium‖ and ―difficult. Within the testlets, items often vary substantially in their difficulty levels, but across testlets, those labeled ―difficult contain harder questions on average than testlets labeled ―medium. Every candidate receives a medium testlet first. Succeeding testlets can be either medium or difficult, depending on a candidate’s performance (for more information about multi-stage testing, see FAQ #3, below). The scoring procedures take the difficulty of all questions into account so that candidates are scored fairly regardless of the difficulty of the testlets they take.”
Good luck to everyone else taking an exam this week!
REG - 4/1/2015 - 82, 100-110 hours of studying over 6 weeks (while taking 12 hours)
AUD - 5/11/2015 - 91, 70-80 hours of studying over 4 weeks (while taking 12 hours)
BEC - 5/30/2015 - 82, 60-70 hours of studying over 2 weeks (post graduation, not in school)
FAR - 7/23/2014 - 87, 160 hours of studying over 5 weeks
*Only Becker study materials used*
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