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I just wanted to say thank you to everyone in the A71 community. When I first started my CPA journey over a year ago I found out about this site and have been coming to it ever since. Jeff, thanks so much for all of your great materials and for creating this forum for CPA hopefuls to support each other in their journey.
It truly feels great to be finished with the CPA exam, and I thought I would give a little advice to all of you still pursuing the same goal:
1. You don’t have to feel perfect about the material to take and pass the exam. As a matter of fact, for 3 of the 4 exams i passed(all but audit), I felt hazy about numerous topics in each exam. Part of me wanted to push back my tests for fear that I had not prepared well enough. But…each time I decided to just give it my best shot and it ended up working out.
2. When you are taking the exam, don’t worry about how you are doing while you are taking the test, simply try to grab each and every point that you can. I know it can feel terrible if you are guessing blindly on many questions(BEC!) but you have to stay focused and just try to scrape and claw to earn as many points as possible.
3. Use Jeff’s Ninja material to supplement your course(or use as stand alone). I used gleim as my primary course, but the material became so monotonous that I needed something else to give me a spark. Thankfully I purchased ninja notes for all of the sections and ninja MCQ for FAR and BEC. It was such a breath of fresh air to study something that was different from my boring review course. I think jeff’s products are fantastic and highly recommend them.
4. Remember, not taking an exam at the end of a window is the same as failing the exam! of course if you rush your exam in the beginning or middle of a window it could end up hurting you, but if you are already at the end of November than pushing back your test is worse than failing because you do not even get the testing experience. And for me it led to a pass when I thought I didn’t have much of a chance(FAR).
5. keep balance in your life. I know the CPA exam is difficult, but for me I never spent the entire weekend away from my family. I always made time to have dinner with my wife and son….to take my dog to the park, or to just relax and recharge. I know it could have meant I didn’t learn that one extra term for the test, but balance kept me fresh enough to take all of them…and fortunately pass!!!
Good luck to all!
Audit(11/5/13) - 89
Reg(5/16/14) - 86
FAR(7/18/14) - 82
BEC(11/14) - 85
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