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   jjm1181
   

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   For me it's reading the actual question sentence first to figure out what it's asking and then reading from the beginning.

   What other good tips and tricks are there? Anything regarding timing of MCQs? Best ways to eliminate choices?

   B 79
   A 75
   R 78
   F 85

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   Zaiitz3
   

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   I'm just going to follow your posts. Haven't taken any tests so far, but for the MCQ that I've been going through, I've been pin pointing key words. For Auditing, these are "review", "issuer", "NOT" and the like. It's easier for me to not get caught up in the wordiness of some of these questions.

   AUD 04/02/12 74, 88!!!!
   FAR 05/30/12
   BEC 07/12
   REG 08/12 (hopefully will be done by the end of August 2012)
   
   “It always seems impossible until its done.”

   Posted 7 months ago #
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   hopefulcpa28
   

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   Studying for audit, and completely agree with @Zaiitz3. For me, audit is difficult...answer that is wrong for one question could be right for another based on compilation, review, etc. Pin pointing to a specific word makes a huge difference and eliminates at least two choices!!

   Posted 7 months ago #
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   makinthemagic
   

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   knowing that you can't know everything and knowing enough of everything to get through mcq, especially of a beast like FAR

   Bec 4/11/11 91
   Aud 7/11/11 75
   Reg 8/31/11 80
   Far 5/24/11 86
   Ethics - 98

   Posted 7 months ago #
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   tnyfn20
   

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   Read the entire question. I know this sounds dumb but I don't know how many times I have gotten a question because I didn't read it or read through it to quickly.

   AUD- 78
   BEC 79
   FAR 78
   REG 77

   Posted 7 months ago #
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   jomarie
   

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   I totally agree with tnyfn20. I've done that millions of times. Reading to quickly or not all the way through.

   Since 2008....
   AUD - 39, 48, 56, 65, 68, 73, 76!!! (Finally passed in Oct 2011!!!)
   REG - 75 (Lost Credit) 72, 68, 73, 75 (Passed again in Aug 2011)
   FAR - 65, 68, 75 (Lost Credit) 68, 73, 73 - Rematch scheduled on May 29, 2012
   BEC - 65, 68, 71, 72, 72, 71, 76 (Lost Credit)- 70 (Are you kidding me?????) - July 17th, 2012 -> Rematch!!
   
   I WILL BECOME A CPA IN 2012!!!

   Posted 7 months ago #
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   jjm1181
   

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   Does anyone skip hard/long questions and move through the shorter/easier ones first? For instance on BEC, I skipped all the calcualtion questions and worked the theory questions first. Is that a sound strategy on the SIMS for FAR? Work the codification and simpler SIMS first and then work the ones that are harder last? Or does it even matter?

   B 79
   A 75
   R 78
   F 85

   Posted 7 months ago #
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   jelly
   

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   Good night's sleep (not super easy), get to the test center early with your NTS and ID, don't dress too warmly. And yes, read the questions carefully, twice to be sure. You can spend a lot of time marking and flipping back and forth re-reading stuff, so keep that in mind.

   Couldn't pass again!

   Posted 7 months ago #
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   misanthrope87
   

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   Not spending too much time on mcqs.

   B 87
   A 90
   R 86
   F

   Posted 7 months ago #
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    candothis
    

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    Once I get seated by the Prometric staffer, I take a couple of minutes(not too much time though) to write down as fast as I can as many mnemonics and formulas that I can. This is BEFORE I enter the launch code and time starts ticking. Two or three minutes max. If the staffer is watching the time two, three, four minutes aren't going to stand out.

    AUD- 62, 78
    BEC- 68, 66, 71
    REG- 55 retake 11/19

    Posted 6 months ago #
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    sacredtheory
    

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    Booze...lots of booze

    BEC: Passed
    AUD: Passed
    REG: 05/12
    FAR: 08/12
    
    Jared

    Posted 6 months ago #
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    Zaiitz3
    

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    Jared, if I could *like* your status, I would.

    And @candothis, that's a really good idea!

    AUD 04/02/12 74, 88!!!!
    FAR 05/30/12
    BEC 07/12
    REG 08/12 (hopefully will be done by the end of August 2012)
    
    “It always seems impossible until its done.”

    Posted 6 months ago #
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    break0ut
    

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    For Audit especially... anticipate the answer before reading any of the stems. Then read the two that are close any pick the one that you anticipated (assuming it's there of course, lol).

    AUD 04/11 - 90
    REG 07/11 - 92
    FAR 11/11 - 88
    BEC 02/12 - 89

    Posted 6 months ago #
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    makinthemagic
    

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    read the last line of the question first. there are a lot of questions where there is a lot of extraneous info that you can waste your time reading.

    Bec 4/11/11 91
    Aud 7/11/11 75
    Reg 8/31/11 80
    Far 5/24/11 86
    Ethics - 98

    Posted 6 months ago #

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