Ana, chapter 1 took a LOT of memorization and repetition for me. There's a lot of subtlty there and its not conceptually obvious stuff. Unlike most accountants however math is my strong suit, so 2-4 made some amount of sense to me once I could get to the heart of the problems and formulas. I know that doesn’t help you really.
My general study plan and advice, read the module and try to make overall sense of it, make some notes in the book. If it makes sense more or less, make your own notes, if it doesn’t make sense yet, watch the lecture and mark the book, then make your own notes (I type them). Don’t type them as you watch or read, type them in your own words. Then go through all of the MCQ.
Every time I get a problem wrong, I work through what their answer is until I can put it into words that make sense to me, those go to my notes. There were some things I thought I understood but needed to refine. Saturday morning I spent 4 hours trying to figure out how they got to an answer on overhead variances. For OH variances that’s a bit much, but for cost accounting concepts you absolutely need that, work it, google it, review it, make sense of it, and write it down the way that it made sense to you.
My test is in 2 days, my notes were 100 pages typed, which I got down to about 80 pages. I’m reading those 3x and going over my marked MCQs a second time between now and my test. (I've done it this way for each test and 100 typed pages is so far the smallest notes i've had for any section)
If my profile displays my email (I tried to update it there), shoot me an email and maybe we can set up a small chat next weekend to help you through some of the broad concepts. I can’t devote too much time until after Wednesday, although I’ll probably be celebrating alot.
I saw you’re a bit discouraged on getting BEC done this quarter.
Personally? I’d say go for it, find a Dec 10th date and do your best. You’ll have your results Dec 19th, and if you fail oh well you can get a new NTS and do it over in January. You’re out $200 or whatever the NTS fee is, but that’s it. In my own cost benefit analysis that fee is worth a gamble on trying to pass, because if you do then you don’t have to do it again later, if not, you’re out the fee and haven’t lost too much time, you can pick up studying where you left off.
AUD - 95
BEC - 98
FAR - 98
REG - 91
Justin - reach out for more help