[mastump317]

I am studying the Wiley questions, section-by-section. When I can take random questions from that section and score 85, I move onto the next one.

I am now into Property Transactions. Holy Crap! It’s like my mind won’t absorb enough of the material to get that section score up to 85.

As of right now I am up to 83% ( random 30 question tests) and the reason it is this high is because I have partially memorized answers. I still don’t feel that I know enough of the basic concepts.

My question: should I just “move on” and not fret about it so much? I’m afraid I’ll take too much time going overt this section and not have enough time for other sections.

Thanks, and best of luck to everyone on the exams!

[Anonymous]

Yes move on. I struggled on business consolidations. No matter how much I read the book and answered multiple choice questions, I could not fully grasp the material. I just made sure i knew the material as best as I could and then I moved on to the next topic. Never waste to much time on one topic.

[hasy]

I agree to a certain point, you need to give up, like I gave up on intercompany inventory sales. But understand how consolidations work though, and how you would book the journal entries. Overall view of the chapter is most important.

AUD - 83
BEC - 80
FAR - 83
REG - 78

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FAR - 72; 83 (Roger + NINJA MCQ)

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REG - 52; 78 (Roger + NINJA MCQ)

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

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[Anonymous]

Don't spend too much time focusing on one section. Move on to new sections and then you can restudy that section later.

[mastump317]

Thank you all for the consistent advice. I shall move on!

[Jdn9201]

Yes, move on. I moved on for any section I scored higher than a 70 on (or skipped entirely). It was my experience that my actual exam score exceeded my practice by about 10 points. Also, remember – you only have to get a 75 to pass – not 100.

BEC - 88 8/29/15
REG - 82 11/14/15
AUD - 83 1/8/16
FAR - 80 2/29/16

[Anonymous]

If you're scoring an 83, then yes, move on. If you were scoring a 33, then I'd say no, go back and figure out what fundamental is holding you back. An 83 (or if that's partially due to memorizing questions, it's say it would be a 70 without the memorized questions aspect) indicates that you grasped the basics, but are struggling with some applications. Still perfectly acceptable to move on.

Whether your scores will be 10 point above or below your practice seems to vary from person to person (I was like jdn9201 that mine averaged around 10 points above my practice, but I've seen others that varied 10 points below), so I think 85 is probably a good target, in case you're one whose real scores are 10 points below your practice. However, to have a section that's 83 instead of 85 is still pretty close, and I'd be OK skipping one with that score. When you come back to do cumulative review questions later, try to get your scores back up to 85 average or at least 80, and then you should be good if you're in the “actual 5 or less below practice” crowd, or in the “actual better than practice” crowd. So, if you stay at 83 on this section, but have an 87 section and all the rest are 85, you'd have about 85 average on cumulative, so you'd be good to go.

[Jdn9201]

Yeah, I agree with Lilla – 80 to 85 is a good target if your average includes repeat questions. My 70 target was for no repeats. Roger tracks the stats for the ones that you get wrong. When I'd review answer explanations, I'd just pull up the ones I had gotten wrong but I never re-did them because I didn't want to skew my stats nor memorize answers.

BEC - 88 8/29/15
REG - 82 11/14/15
AUD - 83 1/8/16
FAR - 80 2/29/16

[Anonymous]

@jdn Good point about it being first time viewing the questions – I never got to the point of re-doing questions (always thought “OK, this exam I'm going to get through them all at least once and then maybe even re-do some sections!” – and then every exam I ran out of time lol), so my scores that were about 10 points below the real exam were on first time that I saw the questions. Maybe that's what makes the difference between people who pass scoring 10 points above or below their practice scores? Practice is below for people using first-time-seen questions scores, and above for people who are re-doing questions?

Note: getting far enough through your prep that you have time to review questions is good, as long as you're still learning from them! I'm not advising that people cut down their total MCQs to only see each question one time. Just postulating theories about the relationship between practice MCQ scores and actual exam scores.

[ecg19]

I'm not saying this will apply to everyone, but I study with becker.

For REG, I was consistently getting 60-65 in my first go around with the MCQ. I would usually bring that up to a 90-100% when only studying the questions I missed – how much was memorisation of the answer, I will never know. In saying that, I would have many sections where I was in the 45% range first go-around.

As you can see, I got an 82 come exam day. I would say move on, and if you have time, come back to it later.

Good luck!

Military spouse living in Germany

REG 1/13/2016 - 82
AUD 1/15/2016 - 82
FAR 5/24/2016 - 80
BEC 5/27/2016 - 85

CA PETH 6/19/2016- 86 BOO
CA PETH 6/21/2016- 90 AND NOW I AM DONE!

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