[thelonewolf527]

So I took FAR less than 2 weeks ago and came out of it certain I did horrible. I had so many minor conceptual questions that I didn’t really focus enough on, as well as things that I skipped over to save time. I felt like my SIMs were so out of the ordinary and confusing as to what they were asking. The topics I was best at I had barely any questions on, as well as no SIMs. So what happens?

Grade back this morning and I got an 80. I’ve been trying to figure out how the hell this is possible and I think I realized something about some of the SIMs. I had a couple that were very large tables, and I mean very large. To the point where some of them had like 40 boxes in them. The thing was that many questions they asked in these SIMs (for example trying to be vague, “what affect does X have on these 5 items?”) only affected one thing. Which meant that many of these things would have a 0 in these boxes. If you have an 8×5 table and each thing only affects 1 item, it meant that there were gonna be 32 0’s in the table. These 0’s count as points, even though in your mind you may think that only things with numbers count. That made me realize, I probably did fine on some of the crazy SIMs simply because there were so many 0’s.

So these questions you may look at and say “What the hell is this?!” because it’s so large, when in actuality, they’re giving you free points there. I hope that this can help some of you out there who fret over these crazy tables, because I think they saved my butt on this exam even though I was confused on most of them.

AUD - 08/04/14 - 83
FAR - 11/29/14 - 80
REG - 02/26/15 - 89
BEC - 05/30/15 - 86

DONE!

[M.O.D.]

This is a good point. Just trying to solve a problem is half the battle.

BA Mathematics, UC Berkeley
Certificates in CPA and EA preparation, College of San Mateo
CMA I 420, II 470
FAR 91, AUD Feb 2015 (Gleim self-study)

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