[futureCPA86]

I got a 67 on BEC and I am planning on retaking it in January. Has anyone failed and retaken BEC? How long did you study before the exam. Did you watch the lecture videos (I have Becker)? How relieable are the candidate preformance reports on strengths and weakness. I REALLY WANT TO PASS THIS SECTION ON MY SECOND TRY. I NEED HELP

[Anonymous]

As you can see, I took BEC once and made a 69 then again and scored an 82 so it's possible. The second time, I skipped the lectures b/c I just didn't have time to listen to them all again. I decided instead to re-read the book completely and take notes, then rework all questions and take notes on those as well. Turns out, the first time I was going through the motions instead of really understanding the concepts. Also, I printed off all of the IT updates in the becker knowledgebase and read through each of them (including the glossary, as painful as it was!). Without those, I probably would have failed again!

[Anonymous]

I failed BEC twice. After failing the second time I switched from Becker to Yeager's BEC Cram. I had memorized the entire Becker test bank for BEC after studying every night for 3-4 hours for months. I found that switching study materials gave me a fresh perspective on the material and the Wiley book used im Yeager had different questions that I had never seen before. Good luck!

[Anonymous]

Question: does Yaegar use Wiley material to teach? I thought Yaeger had it's own materials. I am so confused.

[Anonymous]

futureCPA86

I use Becker, but I am waiting for my score, hope it will be out next week. However, I do feel confident that I will pass. Nothing on the exam surprised me. I do have one issue with Becker especially for this section BEC. If I received the typical BEC exam, I think Becker goes way overboard on the difficulty of the BEC study material. As far as time, Becker recommends around 100 hours of study time for each section more for FAR of course. I keep track of all my study time and I did study do mutliple choice questions, practice final exams, doing progress test and reviewing questions I got wrong by reading the text when I hit the show text button in the software. I put in about 90 hours of this studying plus additonal watching of the lecture CDs. I am more of an audio/visual learner (hate reading), I must have watch the overhead variance section of B5 at least 10 times before I really grasped the material.

I did fail AUD (73) with Becker because of an ad hoc study plan and did a 3 week cram after a 4 month break to study and pass FAR of going over the material from start to finish studying around 55 hours and concentrating on my weak areas and passed with an 81. It is possible to restudy the material, but concentrate on the concept of the questions and not fall into the trap of memorizing answers since the questions are never identical on the real thing.

Good Luck.

[Anonymous]

I took BEC 3 times,,, 74, 74 and took it recently and have not received the score yet, but would be lucky if I received a 47.

I knew everything solid, inside and out, Business Structure, IT, Economics, Financial Management, etc., I was average, above average as compared to other candidates EXCEPT, cost/managerial accounting…. I studied 2 weeks on the cost/managerial accounting and did noticebly better the second round using Yeager.

Yeager uses Wiley books.

AUD- 79

BEC- 74, 74, anticipating complete failure

REG- not sure what to expect

FAR- 02/10

[glutenator]

Lee_IN, I am the opposite, I would rather read than watch the videos, which is how I studied. I found the Becker book terrible for BEC (but pretty good for REG, even though I failed). If I failed BEC (find out next week), I will supplement next time with Wiley. I may also switch to Wiley for FAR which I'm studying for now. I skimmed the Wiley books at Barnes and Noble and they seem more technical. The Becker books seem a little to much like a monologue, like a script from the videos, which is fine for the REG stuff, but for things with a lot of formulas, etc. it doesn't work well.

I'll Pass Eventually
REG (67, 66), BEC (79), FAR (5/26/10), AUD (August 2010)

[MPoni123]

i sit for BEC somtime in january. I did sit for BEC in july first time around..but did not really study for it. i got tons of IT questions and a lot of cost accounting questions. Figures – IT is probably the most difficult area for me…i just don't get it! hopefully with me actually studying second time around it will be easier! i am using Becker software – for AUD i thought it was great and REG it wasn't bad…my exam on the other hand was ridiculous. i was definitely blind sighted!! hopefully by some miracle and amazing exam scaling i passed..??

Waiting on REG score!!

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AUD – 84; REG – 11/30 waiting; BEC – 1/2010; FARE – mid 2010??

AUD - 84; REG - 90; BEC - 79; FAR - 75; ALL DONE!!

[futureCPA86]

Atipton

I got the new Whiley review course…did you just do the questions in the book or did you also study to book? What has other people done when they supplemented their review course with Whiley?

[Anonymous]

read alot work more questions then anything did the cram online…….passed I fumbled many of the questions looking back on it but in the end I passed……I guess if you fail it was because of those tricky brain busters

[jeff]

“Question: does Yaegar use Wiley material to teach? I thought Yaeger had it's own materials. I am so confused.”

Yaeger takes the Wiley book and weeds out the info you don't need to study for the exam. They lecture out of the Wiley book and use Wiley's questions as examples, which are from the AICPA.

I hope that helps,

Jeff

AUD - 79
BEC - 80
FAR - 76
REG - 92

Jeff Elliott, CPA (KS)
NINJA CPA | NINJA CMA | NINJA CPE | Another71

[Anonymous]

FutureCPA86 – I did a little of both. I made some flash cards on the areas I wasn't strong in. Then I also did almost every question in the book at least once. I also took a week off from work and studied 8 hours a day about 4 weeks before the exam. After I went back to work, I studied about 30 min in the morning before I went to work and then all evening after I got home. I knew I had to pass this exam because I'm going on a cruise in January and I didn't want to have to worry about it then.

[Anonymous]

Concentrate on Becker chapter B5 and B3. Those have the most material that people have not seen before. Don't go lightly on IT. Memorize all the formulas they give you in Becker. There is like 60 of them. It's a pain, but that's what you have to do. My exam report said I tanked the stuff in B5, I studied that and passed the second time, so the report is helpful. Only replay the lectures for the stuff that you do not understand.

[MPoni123]

page 38 for BEC in Becker Chapter 1 (2009 edition). pass key box — “…shareholders generally have no direct power to MANGE…” definitely not the first time i have noticed spelling mistakes!! funny…the study materials cost thousands of dollars and they can't afford to have someone proof read the book before it goes out? better yet…isn't it typed in word or something? that red underline does mean something! hmm.

AUD - 84; REG - 90; BEC - 79; FAR - 75; ALL DONE!!

[Anonymous]

I saw mathmatical error in one of my answer keys yesterday for L-7 FAR.

Becker has a “course update” on their website where you can get a copy of their corrections, but for the money they should have it proofread a little better.

[Anonymous]

Have you seen Becker's supplemental for BEC IT?? Geesh it was huge! Something like 30 pages of additional info.

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