Yaeger Homestudy and Wiley Text for FAR Minimum Questions

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    Vern
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    Wiley Question –

    Hello,

    Has anybody had success with FAR by only watching the lectures and going over the assigned MC/Sim questions. I’m worried this isn’t enough, but I probably won’t have time to go over and learn every question in the book. Is it better just to make sure I know the ins and outs of the assigned problems?

    Thanks in advance!!!!

    Yaeger CPA Review

    Audit Passed
    FAR Passed
    REG Passed
    BEC ??

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  • #233873
    75 CPA
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    I passed FAR and REG with Yaeger Homestudy just using the multiple choice questions that Yaeger went over in the class. However, that approach did not work with AUD. AUD is a tricky word game. I did about 3,000 multiple choice questions for AUD.

    #233874
    Anonymous
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    75CPA….you didn't even go back and do the minimum questions.

    I have viewed the DVD's and did the questions along w/the instructors….and am now going back and doing all of the minimum MCQ. There is so much that I have forgotten…I am scoring around the 50% on them. This is for FAR.

    #233875
    75 CPA
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    CPA-Valenz

    I know. I was even in worse shape for REG. I only finished 2/3 of Yaeger before I took the exam, but I passed!

    A pattern seems to be emerging. I like REG and BEC and I passed on the first try with Yaeger Home Study. However, AUD has kicked my butt. On the other hand, those who love FAR and AUD pass on the first shot and BEC and REG kick their butt. Then there are those people who pass all four exams on the first try, no matter what review programs that they use.

    The problem that I had with FAR is that the material just never ends! Just look at the size of your book.

    I found that the following advice from other CPA candidates helped me with FAR:

    I wanted to give some advice to others taking FAR that could possibly help make their experience better.

    Don't leave a chapter until you know it. I listened to someone's advice about getting through the chapters and then going back and I wished I had not done this. The chapters I knew…I knew well. Those I didn't, I struggled with and wasted valuable time.

    Please take practice tests and time yourself. I could never finish mine in time and I really paid for it on this one. I finished the exam, but let's just say it was “rushed”. I did not have this problem with REG.

    Also, be sure and read the directions carefully. Because I was rushed before I got to the Simulations, I did one backwards. I then freaked and realized I did it backwards and had to go back and redo it. Man!! That was such a stupid thing to do!! Please read those questions carefully so you won't do this.

    Also, I recommend if you aren't doing this, make your OWN note cards. I had a couple of tricky topics that I worked on the last two weeks. I made note cards for these. That was VERY helpful. I felt really comfortable about those answers. The ones I just “winged” I felt really uncertain about on the exam.

    As far as communication questions, you can guess that I did those first because by that time I was trying to get as many points as possible. What I have found helps on communication and research both is actually reading the text, and making your own note cards. It helps when you need to know what the question is asking and how to present your thoughts clearly.

    Here's my advice and I hope you listen….

    Anything that you didn't a chance to go over, I want you to read about the topic and stop doing calculations. Even if you haven't physically taken the time to number crunch, you will be able to handle yourself on the exam because you understand the theory behind it. TRUST ME ON THIS….if you can't trust yourself!

    I think you may be misunderstanding me about the actual exam. Do not misinterpret the fact that there are more calculations then theory or vice-versa. I'm telling you that if you can understand the logic behind the theory, the rest will come into play. The exam is FULL of questions that really determine whether you know what the heck you are doing and get the logic! You will be tested over and over with different concepts and mixed together (not nice and neat questions put together) to see if you really understand your theory. The best analogy I can come up with is in REG there is bankruptcy law. You have to understand who gets paid first to last. What I'm trying to say is… you have to know the material in FAR sort of like that. It's a building block of rules.

    Being a mechanical dummy will not get you through the exam. You can't just go through Becker, Gleim, whoever's MCQ's and just read a question and answer it. If you get it right, moving along to the next. If you see a choice that looks “interesting” but wrong, take the time to investigate it and find out why it's wrong. If are really stuck between two answers and you happen to get the right answer, don't move on! Take the time to read why your second choice was wrong. It's very tricky.

    Speaking of “tricky”, I thought my exam yesterday was far more trickier then BEC's! It could be because I didn't know my theory well enough….it's possible on some…but there were certain topics that I knew my stuff and I couldn't get the right theoretical answer. You will face a lot of one little word out of place gives the answer a whole other meaning. You have to be good at selecting the BEST choice.

    Last recommendation, and this was the most important thing that I could have done for myself and didn't do it for REG (probably would have passed REG had I not done this), YOU NEED to stop studying by 3 pm tomorrow. So make it a point that you select top priorities starting between now and tomorrow! Trust me…if you tell yourself 3pm you'll go to 4pm and will probably get incredible studying done in that one hour. AFTER THAT…you CANNOT study anymore. If you didn't get it by that point, you won't and WILL risk screwing up WHAT YOU DO KNOW!

    #233876
    Anonymous
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    75 CPA—Thanks for the insight.

    I just want this whole process to be over…I may be doing overkill while studying, but I don't want to have to take this exam again.

    I read another ladies comments after her test and she said hers was 60% computational….I guess all exams are truly different.

    If there were that many computations, it seems you would really be pressed for time.

    I definitely read all of the wrong answer while reviewing…that truly is the best advice that can be given.

    #233877
    75 CPA
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