Same thing happened to me with REG. So Im interested to see the answers from this. FYI before my 74 I “earned” a 73…Gotta the transparency of the process with this exam
When I took audit (old format), I got a 73 the first time. I was stronger on all the MCQ but weaker on the SIMs. For my retest, I also took time to study and work through SIMs. This brought my SIMs up from a “Weaker” to “comparable” score.
went from 68 to 74 to 79 for BEC. first time around I was weaker in a lot of the MC and comparable for the writing (at this time I did not know about NINJA or even the Test Bank for Wiley, so that is why I struggled so much with the multiple choice.). For the first retake, I was trying to squeeze in AUD and BEC before the exam changes in Q2 of 2017 so I only had 20 days to study for BEC. I hit the ninja MCQs hard and ended up with a 74. Due to the limited time frame, I did not really focus on the writing part and ended up being weaker in that which cost me that one point. For the final retake, I gave myself a month and a half ( I was able to do this becuase no matter when I took it in Q2, I still had to wait the same amount of time due to the score release delay.)
Studied for 2 months and took BEC in 1/26/18 – LAST chance under the old format = 74
– Weaker MC and Comparable Written Communication
Studied for 2.5 months and took BEC under the new format on 05/31/18 = 74
– Stronger MC, Weaker SIMS, Weaker Written Communications (time mismanagement on my end)
Focused soo much time on FAR that only got to Study BEC for 1 week in December and took the exam 12/10/18. 77
Got 74 on FAR in February 2016 then it was my last exam in November 2017 (after a failed attempt to do in September 2017 because of Hurricane Irma) and got a 77.
@Clockwork This is embarrassing, but after getting a 74 on BEC, my next attempt resulted in a 75. BARELY slipped by. I thought I'd have done better than that, but I think I messed up some easy formatting in the writing section, and it nearly screwed me over!
In other cases, like REG, I made a 70 and then a 77. 7 point jump. Only that 1 point jump with BEC.
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