[needhelpnow]

I am just wanting to get an approximate idea. Thank you.

[Anonymous]

When I took it the first time, I studied for about 2.5 months but it was right when I started my first job so I didn't get much done during the week. I spent most of my time focusing on formulas and didn't do many MCQs and I failed with a 73. I took it a month later and studied for 4 days before the test and got an 83. I let my credit expire and I'm retaking it on Friday and I've been studying for a little over a month. I would say I put in 160-175 hours total and about 2500 MCQs, on the conservative side. Compared to 2 months, probably 400 hours and 5000-6000 MCQs for FAR.

[Anonymous]

I probably spent about 80 hours on BEC, but I have two business degrees and very little of the BEC information was new to me. I struggled with economics and remembering the formulas so I focused on those things the most during my review.

[JamesBJames]

80 hours is nice to hear.

@CPAMommyof3 is right. I think you'll find a lot of BEC easy if you remember a few things from college. Personally, I thought the econ and finance (NPV / IRR / etc.) questions were super straightforward. I struggled with cost accounting and a couple of the operations management topics. Regardless, there's probably at least one topic that you just fly through.

I've got BEC coming up, and I imagine I'll have spent around 100-110 hours by the time I'm done. In general, it seems like this is the test people study for the least. Have you taken AUD yet? I would guess, on average, people study 15-25% less hours for BEC than they do for AUD.

FAR: May 1st, 2014 - 91
AUD: May 29th, 2014 - 97!
BEC: July 16th, 2014 - 91
REG: August 29th, 2014 - 88

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[LongShot]

Probably about 50-75 hours or so. Granted, it was my 4th exam section so the overlap helped and both my undergrad and graduate degrees were business admin so studying BEC was more refresher for me than anything else.

FAR - 75
AUD - 72; 87
REG - 64; 74; 84
BEC - 88

Done!!

[Anonymous]

Probably 30 hours- maybe 40 hours, tops. I studied during the weeknights for exactly 29 days and took the weekends off.

Disclaimer- a lot of the BEC topics apply to the line of work I do.

[Anonymous]

10-15 hours per week for 6-8 weeks. For people stronger in accounting than finance a little longer. For me, as a finance major who works in finance, it was the easiest exam by far!

[Anonymous]

I don't exactly remember the hours, but I studied for it in January and February, and I took it at the end of February. Also, I was really pissed off about barely failing it the first time with a 70, so that really motivated me to go all out and pass.

[needhelpnow]

@Determined_To_Succeed Do you work full-time as well?

[Anonymous]

Hm, I feel like I overstudied now 🙂 I'm three years out of college….6 years removed from my last economics class. I also run the risk of losing credit for REG at the end of August so I'm overstudying now because I don't want to risk that!

[KPRO]

I studied 3-4 hours a week, 7 days a week for 2 1/2 weeks. So I guess about 65 hours using Becker self study. It really depends on how comfortable you are with the topics already. I took it 5 months after graduating undergrad and had taken cost accounting the previous semester which really helped me.

AUD- 89
BEC- 86
FAR- 60,79
REG- 63,83

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