CPA Exam Scores (argh!), Green Beer, & Lucky Charms
Allyson is a weekly Club 75 Blogger as she documents her journey through the CPA Exam.
What is worse than this wait for CPA Exam Scores? This is a whole different type of March Madness. I have been checking the NASBA site daily. CPA-OCD at its finest.
This is another score release where I will render myself utterly useless starting March 16. The sad thing is that the one I’m waiting for, BEC, will most likely be last due to the Written Communications. I’ve resigned myself to the fact that it will be the end of March but I will still check obsessively. I am so impatient; I want it NOW.
Since my last exam a few weeks ago, I have been doing a lot of soul searching. You see I had decided last summer after failing FAR for the third time that if I lost credit for REG in February, I would be done. Quit. Finished. I told my husband and boys that I would have given it my all and they could have their mommy back. 84 weeks is a long time to be miserable.
Psychologically for me, it gave me some sort of closure to look forward to. Win or lose, I would never watch another lecture, open another review book, calculate another multiple choice question, give another dime at the AICPA, or cry over a failing score ever again.
There are things that some folks just aren’t cut out for. Not every CPA candidate is going to make it. Perhaps I am one of them. At 43 years old, I’ve graciously accepted that no matter how hard I try, I cannot sing and will I ever be able to pull off wearing skinny jeans. Maybe passing the CPA exam is just not in the cards for me either.
Now faced with the high probability that I failed BEC and thus lost credit for REG, I am realizing I am not ready to give up this fight. It would be so easy to give up right now, but I would live the rest of my life knowing I could have been a CPA if I would have hung on just a few more months.
I worked so hard to pass FAR and I would be throwing away an entire year of effort if I quit now.
If I weren’t so busy with tax season, I’d be studying BEC right now. Plan B is already in place so if I get bad news on BEC, I’m prepared to jump back into study mode. I won’t be happy about it and I do plan a big pity party first, but I will do whatever it takes to pass this exam.
Being an Irish girl, I am on a mission to find some green beer and Lucky Charms cereal for Thursday. Here’s to some Irish luck coming our way.
Cheers… F5!
-Allyson
