[mdrobbin]

Has anyone walked out of FAR and felt terrible about the test then went on to pass? I think I have a tendency to get hung up on questions I didn’t know more than remembering the easy ones.

Good news is that I finished all questions on time and I know I nailed the research sim. I didn’t leave any Sims uncompleted which hopefully helps.

IFRS was WAY more challenging than what I saw in Wiley. Overall I feel terrible… Maybe cause I was scoring in the 80’s on Wiley sample exams an the real thing felt 10X as difficult.

Is there any hope? Anyone think they tanked and actually passed? Guess its time to pray.

FAR - 2012 - PASSED (YAEGER)
AUD - 2012 - PASSED (YAEGER + NINJA NOTES)
BEC - 2012 - PASSED (YAEGER + NINJA NOTES)
REG - 2013 - PASSED (YAEGER + NINJA NOTES + NINJA AUDIO)

ETHICS - 2013 - PASSED

DONE!!! Thank you A71 for all the support! Hiya!!!

[Anonymous]

Same thing happened to me and I ended up with an 84. When I walked out of Prometric, I was 99% sure I didn't pass. I know I missed a lot of questions, but luckily I must have missed less than others did. I know I got the research question right, but left some of the calculations on SIMS blank. Don't stress about it and just be glad the test is over for now 🙂

[mdrobbin]

Thx for the words of encouragement! I'll keep my head up and stay positive. Fingers crossed.

FAR - 2012 - PASSED (YAEGER)
AUD - 2012 - PASSED (YAEGER + NINJA NOTES)
BEC - 2012 - PASSED (YAEGER + NINJA NOTES)
REG - 2013 - PASSED (YAEGER + NINJA NOTES + NINJA AUDIO)

ETHICS - 2013 - PASSED

DONE!!! Thank you A71 for all the support! Hiya!!!

[katiekanton]

I sat this month and I know how much IFRS you're talking about. But I felt awful leaving too, and scored high, so don't despair. I think ALL the pretest ones were probably IFRS.

AUD - 88
FAR - 90
REG - 85
BEC - 88

[Anonymous]

Idk why, but your post scares me..May be cuz I'm taking in 4 days :'(………..I feel super ready, bu then you say “the questions are 10X harder” than Wiley's……….that scares me….lol….

@KatieKanton..give me some words of advice……guide me to the road of glory FAR master…

[katiekanton]

I don't think I have any useful advice other than take notes, do lots of MCQs and take notes on what you learn from them, and then memorize your notes. I'm starting to wonder if a lot of people try to do this without taking notes and just do 1000's of MCQs. It never occurred to me to try that. I'd never remember anything if I did it that way. But I know lots of people learn differently.

AUD - 88
FAR - 90
REG - 85
BEC - 88

[mdrobbin]

Ignore me terminator I'm just in a bad mood :). I was caught off guard by some derivatives and personal financial stuff that I studied weeks ago and hadn't circled back to… And IFRS was more difficult than Wiley.

It wasn't 10X harder… Part of it was frustration that I didn't remember some easy answers I knew I should have gotten. All in all, keep at what your doing and you will be good.

FAR - 2012 - PASSED (YAEGER)
AUD - 2012 - PASSED (YAEGER + NINJA NOTES)
BEC - 2012 - PASSED (YAEGER + NINJA NOTES)
REG - 2013 - PASSED (YAEGER + NINJA NOTES + NINJA AUDIO)

ETHICS - 2013 - PASSED

DONE!!! Thank you A71 for all the support! Hiya!!!

[Anonymous]

I've never taken any kind of notes in my life…lol…I've memorized the books though….read each chapter like 10 times, done the mcqs like 10x as well….Oh God…if he could only tell the AICPA dudes to give me “easy” testlets…..God, can u help me plz??????????lol…….I have a feeling that, a strong feeling that I will pass………CPA Exam…Marco is coming 4 u….sorry..had to vent…i'm crazy…

[nray8211]

I agree completely with your post. Took far on the 13th and walked out after spending too much time on mc questions and only had an hour ten minutes for the sims. Nailed research and struggled to get all completed. That worried me a ton but I found out I passed with an 80 today. Even the prometric person said that all CPA exam students have no clue how it went after exam. Try to stay positive. Most likely you just got done studying for months on one exam so it's natural to have a range of emotions. If you prepared well and left all you had in the exam room I'm sure you did great. I knew walking out that no matter how I did, I worked my ass off and had no regrets. good luck to you!

FAR - 80
AUD - 78
REG - 78
BEC - 84

Materials - Yaeger Home Study, Ninja Notes

Done!

[mdrobbin]

@katie… I probably logged 150 hours before touching MCQ and then spent two weeks doing MCQ. I was cruising on the sample exams… 80% and above consistently and felt I had the concepts down pat.

Two problems… One I didn't spend enough time refreshing on the smaller topics. Two… The Big one is I think I let the pressure get to me. After I had 4 or 5 questions that I was unsure of I got pretty pissed (I'm sure prometrics enjoyed watching me flip off my computer on surveillance camera) lol.

FAR - 2012 - PASSED (YAEGER)
AUD - 2012 - PASSED (YAEGER + NINJA NOTES)
BEC - 2012 - PASSED (YAEGER + NINJA NOTES)
REG - 2013 - PASSED (YAEGER + NINJA NOTES + NINJA AUDIO)

ETHICS - 2013 - PASSED

DONE!!! Thank you A71 for all the support! Hiya!!!

[Anonymous]

@mdrobbin………No worry bro….we will pass!!!!!!!!!! I promise we will cuz we're the champions of the world! life is good with or w/o the CPA Exam….

[mdrobbin]

Thx nray 🙂

FAR - 2012 - PASSED (YAEGER)
AUD - 2012 - PASSED (YAEGER + NINJA NOTES)
BEC - 2012 - PASSED (YAEGER + NINJA NOTES)
REG - 2013 - PASSED (YAEGER + NINJA NOTES + NINJA AUDIO)

ETHICS - 2013 - PASSED

DONE!!! Thank you A71 for all the support! Hiya!!!

[mdrobbin]

Lol… Life is great. And NOT a question we will pass. I'm 100% committed. If I fail round 1 I'll dig deeper and kill it round 2 in April.

FAR - 2012 - PASSED (YAEGER)
AUD - 2012 - PASSED (YAEGER + NINJA NOTES)
BEC - 2012 - PASSED (YAEGER + NINJA NOTES)
REG - 2013 - PASSED (YAEGER + NINJA NOTES + NINJA AUDIO)

ETHICS - 2013 - PASSED

DONE!!! Thank you A71 for all the support! Hiya!!!

[katiekanton]

@mdrobbin

You're probably fine then. Bet you score in the 90s. Remember, that score isn't a “percentage correct out of 100”.

AUD - 88
FAR - 90
REG - 85
BEC - 88

[Anonymous]

@CPATerminator

Omg, you're one of the over-achievers that'll make my score curved down to the drain…

Teach me how to manage to read that book 10x and do MCQs 10x?

[shiggity80]

I walked out feeling like crap. The SIMS were ridiculous and each testlet I must have flagged 6-8 questions.

I ended up getting an 87.

I always tell myself that after finishing an exam, it doesn't matter how I feel about it, there's a possibility of any score popping up.

FAR: 87
AUD: 86
BEC: 86
REG: 84! Officially Done!

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