Worst part of taking the exam

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  • #1290820
    FARISFUN
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    Does anyone else feel like the worst part of these exams is actually waiting for you score to be released? I do not like waiting the 2-3 weeks after your test to finally receive your score. It is very hard to concentrate and studying not knowing if you will have to re study for the exam you just took or not.

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  • #1290828
    CPA2BEE
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    I agree, the time between when you took the test and score release was the most difficult times for me. Because there is nothing more you can do during that time to better your odds, you are just stuck in a “whats done is done” situation with a million different possibilities running through your mind. The actual studying and taking the exams is difficult, but that piece of it was just terrible.

    CA CPA - est. Dec 2016

    FAR - 80
    AUD - 82
    BEC - 80
    REG - 85

    ETHICS - 90
    EXPERIENCE - COMPLETE
    Application for California license mailed 8/4/2016

    #1290862
    letsrun4it
    Participant

    I have to disagree. I hate waiting for the exam score but by far the worst part for me is when you're just starting and nothing even makes remote sense. I like towards the end when I'm just plugging holes, the beginning is ROUGH.

    AUD - 86
    BEC - 85
    FAR - 76
    REG - 78
    DONE!

    BEC: 85
    REG: 74, 78
    AUD: 86
    FAR: October?

    #1290865
    CPA2BEE
    Participant

    ^^^@letsrun4it – Good point, the beginning of studying for an exam is completely overwhelming. However, after the fist couple exams I was pretty seasoned to that – I expected it. As for the waiting period for score release, I could never get used to the nerves and paranoia that brought on.

    CA CPA - est. Dec 2016

    FAR - 80
    AUD - 82
    BEC - 80
    REG - 85

    ETHICS - 90
    EXPERIENCE - COMPLETE
    Application for California license mailed 8/4/2016

    #1290867
    FARISFUN
    Participant

    I have taken two exams now. I took FAR in august and that test was bad to study for. I recently took BEC about a week ago and its already killing me. BEC is all over the place and was a paint to study for. Its tough waiting three weeks and studying for another exam. I would rather know when I submit my exam if I passed or not

    #1297224
    .
    Participant

    Doing 200 Ninja MCQs a day for review was the worst. My eyeballs nearly fell out of my head. I'm so slow and it just took forever. Started to develop an allergy to MCQs.

    And my little freak out during the exam when I was trying to finish the simulations in FAR that I barely understood but was running out of time.

    FAR- 88- 6/16- (Ninja Avg. 74%)
    REG- 89- 7/16- (Ninja Avg. 77%)
    AUD- 95- 8/16- (Ninja Avg. 81%)
    BEC- 82- 9/16- (Ninja Avg. 75%)
    [Wiley CPAExcel + Ninja MCQ]

    Finally licensed.

    FAR - June 2016 - 88
    REG - July 2016 - 89
    AUD - Aug 2016 - review phase currently
    BEC - Sep 2016 -

    Wiley CPA Excel & Ninja MCQ

    #1297228
    FARISFUN
    Participant

    @malfunction Yes that was another thing I was not a fan of. When they give you a piece of information and you almost have to assume what it means or what to do with it.

    #1303314
    Ag12thman
    Participant

    @circadian malfunction – Wow, high 80's and/or 90's in four exams spread apart by 1 month each?!?!?!?!?!?! Can you share your study routine and/or tactics??? They seem to be pretty legit, whatever they are! Great scores and all in FOUR months!

    FAR: July 2016

    #1303321
    mricci1989
    Participant

    My least favorite part about this exam was the whole thing.

    AUD - 80
    BEC - 85
    FAR - 79
    REG - 87
    Finally over.

    FAR - 79 4/16
    AUD - 80 7/16
    REG - TBD 8/16
    BEC - TBD 10/16

    #1303332
    Track55
    Participant

    Being fingerprinted every time I left the room. I took 1 to 2 breaks each time so I lost at least 10 mins on each test.

    AUD - 99
    BEC - 83
    FAR - 86
    REG - 92
    California - Internal Audit

    CPA since December 2016.

    (took seven tries, 1 year 10 months).

    AUD - 74, 99 !!
    REG - 74, 92
    BEC - 83
    FAR - 73, 86

    Studying for Ethics exam

    California candidate
    Business and Industry

    #1303336
    Lou
    Participant

    Definitely for me waiting on score release is the worst aspect

    AUD - 91
    BEC - 91
    FAR - 94
    REG - 87
    Done!

    FAR- taken 8/11/16....now the wait begins
    AUD- scheduled 9/8/16
    BEC- scheduled 10/9/16
    REG-scheduled 12/10/16

    Live a few years like most people won't, to live the rest of your life like most people can't.

    #1303342
    Duskfall
    Participant

    I go insane waiting for score releases. The beginning is bad too and feeling like you'll never get it sucks. Just waiting while trying to study for another section is horrible though. Time crawls and the mind races

    • FAR - 81 - JUN 7th, 2016
    • BEC - 85 - AUG 23rd, 2016
    • AUD- 80 - OCT 5th, 2016
    • REG- 77 - DEC 2nd, 2016

     

    FAR - 07/07/2016 - 81
    BEC - 08/23/2016
    AUD - 10/05/2016
    REG - 11/23/2016

    #1303381
    EDM1204
    Participant

    I usually schedule my exams right at the end of a score release so I have a quick turnaround. The worst part is starting to study after you took a month off. It's really hard to get back into things. Especially when you took the exam as many times as I have. You just don't look forward to it anymore.

    AUD - NINJA in Training
    BEC - 76
    FAR - 78
    REG - 81
    FAR- Passed first try
    AUD- Failed 5 times....
    REG- Failed 2 times, Passed 3rd time
    BEC- Passed first try

    F- 78
    A- 70, 69, 74, 70
    R- 68, 70
    B- 76

    #1303396
    Missy
    Participant

    Just remember if you had taken the test four years ago (not “back in the day” or when dinosaurs roamed the earth) you could have been waiting three months for a score.

    Before that, was up to 6 months.

    Lightening speed, these 3 week waits 😉

    Old timer,  A71'er since 2010.

    Finance manager/HR manager

     

     

    Licensed Massachusetts Non Reporting CPA since 2012
    Finance/Admin/HR Manager

    #1303405
    Anonymous
    Inactive

    The most miserable part from a boredom standpoint was watching the Becker lecture videos. That's just not how I learn, and those videos are horrible.

    The most miserable part from a mental/emotional struggle standpoint was scrolling through the exam experience threads and the “thought you failed but actually passed” threads and “what was your trending score in NINJA vs your actual exam score?” threads, trying to figure out how well I was going to do. It was particularly awful on my last exam because I only had three weeks to study for it, and I really, really needed to pass it on the first try so I could apply for a job with a firm I really wanted to work for. It drove me insane.

    It was all a bigger deal in my head than it turned out to be, as I did very well on the exams overall, but I don't think most people (especially those who work full time, have kids, have other obligations that prevent them from being a professional exam taker) ever walk away from these exams KNOWING they passed. I certainly never did.

    #1303461
    jules_cpa
    Participant

    I will never take a test on Day 1 of a testing window again. I have over a month to wait. 2 weeks to go!

    AUD - 77
    BEC - 82
    FAR - 75
    REG - 76
     Licensed CPA - September 2017
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