[Anonymous]

1. Be prepared for some of the worst, sadistic sims ever. I mean, I doubt you even can, but just try not to panic too much. Definitely leave at least 2 hours for sims.

2. Memorize all the ratios and formulas you can. There were a bunch in the MCQ’s.

Good luck!

[Anonymous]

Can't be worse than the FAR SIMs I got last quarter…

[asadkahloon]

well, here's to hoping I get a version of the exam with as few computational questions as possible… either that or I somehow start exceling at these questions overnight.

[tara18]

I’m struggling with foreign currency questions, do you think it’s worth spending time on? I take the exam tomorrow 😪

[Anonymous]

Took BEC on April 27th. My experience was the opposite, the MCQs in the first section made me want to run from the room and change my career in the fact that I got a majority of calculation questions and theory questions that were not covered by Becker. Thankfully, the SIMS were almost too easy. Either way, I wonder if the exam is meant to meant to cause a psychological response and see how candidates handle it. Only slightly joking. The whole process definitely takes a toll.

[Anonymous]

@Emily – that's pretty concerning how Becker didn't cover the majority of the MCQs in your first testlet or you just got really unlucky.

[tara18]

I took Bec today and I’m not sure how I could have prepared differently for this exam. I flagged at least 10 questions in the first teslet. These questions were not even remotely close to anything that I studied. I honestly have no idea.

[turo9992000]

@tara18, BEC is the most out there of the exams. The questions were completely different form Becker, and the sims were all over the place. I managed a 75, but I have no idea what that test was about.

AUD - 64, 80 Passed on 10/09/17

BEC - 75 Passed on 12/09/17

FAR - 69, 71, 73, 83 Passed on 06/10/18

REG - 81 Passed on 09/10/17

[TCav12579]

OP, would you say the formulas seem to be a lot of finance/financial management? ratios? I am one week out and want to make sure I don't have a huge hole in my knowledge base. Thanks!

AUD - 99

BEC - 6/8/18

FAR - 5/12/18

REG - 86

[CCSonne]

I am taking BEC tomorrow, my first test. I have studied for 123 hours per Surgent dashboard. I have done Ninja MCQ's watched countless Edspira youtube videos and done problems along with him. I have been relentless. I am smart. I have been in accounting for 20 + years and I have never felt so discouraged. No matter how many times I take a practice exam or answer 30 random questions I average way below 75%. Should I cancel the test?

[Anonymous]

@CCSonne – if you've already put in that many hours of studying, why cancel the exam? Go ahead and still take the exam. If the CPA exam did not make you feel dumb, then it wouldn't be the CPA exam..Frankly, you're going to feel even dumber coming out of the prometric test center, and we all feel the same way regardless of which section of the CPA exam we take.

[tara18]

I would say still take the exam. 80% of the topics on the blueprint didn’t show up so I would just do it..

[asadkahloon]

Regarding the blueprints, isn't everything on the blueprint supposed to be reflected on the exam at their minimum percentages? Or is it very possible to get 0% of some of the content areas?

[Anonymous]

Tcav12579,

They were the basic ones like inventory conversion and asset turnover. But you absolutely had to know them to solve the MCQ. Good luck!

CCSonne,

BEC was my first and only section I passed on first try, despite the fact that when I had to retake it this year, I found a bunch of MCQ's in the book I had flagged and skipped for later haha. It's definitely the easier section.

Kahloon,

I don't know about minimum percentage, but I'm sure they never test the same thing twice. On Q1 BEC there were two currency exchange MCQ's; this time, nothing.

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