FAR was the third section I took. I already knew that I had passed REG & BEC, so I knew I had a good study technique. FAR was a monster…there was soooooo much info. I used Becker material – studied straight from the book and did passmaster homework. I ran myself ragged in the 7 weeks I spent studying for this beast. By the time I got to Gov’t & NFP chapters, I was flat worn out. I didn’t understand them very well b/c I had never studied them in college (even tho I have a masters degree in accounting). I did OK on Becker’s practice test, but did not feel like I would ever be ready to take the actual exam.

In actual exam, there were really no surprises in MCQ’s. I used all the time, did not take any breaks while taking exam. I got a LOT of gov’t & NFP questions, and felt like I guessed on over half of them! But still, I was pretty confident that I had a good chance of passing while going into the sims b/c I did very well on all of Becker’s practice sims except for one. The first sim was retardedly easy! I kept looking for the catch, but there was none..it was too easy….1st year accounting student stuff. I was feeling good! But then came the second sim – ah hah, THERE was the catch…pairing of a really easy sim with a REALLY hard one! The ONE sim that I had trouble with in Becker. I knew a messed it up on the actual exam. I freaked out – kept changing my answers. I finally submitted it with 20 seconds left on exam, then realized I made a BAD mistake on the last tab! UGH! I was sure I failed the exam b/c the gov’t/NFP and that sim! I was positive I would have to take the FAR exam again, but tried not to think about it too much while I studied for audit.

Early release of scores came & went…others who took FAR a week AFTER I did got their scores. My friends found out they passed and I was still waiting 🙁 While waiting, I heard stories of others who completely skipped a sim (b/c of time constraints) and still passed (one with a score in the 80’s!). So I thought maybe there was a small chance that I passed even after messing up that second sim….a SMALL chance. I finally got my FAR score the same day I got my AUD score (even tho I took AUD 3 weeks after FAR)…a 95!!! WTF?!?!? I didn’t believe it! I reacted like a girl who just won the miss america pageant!

you never can tell coming out of those exams! The 2 sections that I felt most horrible coming out of, ended up being the sections I scored the highest on. Go figure!

Good luck!

DONT DO UOP!!! Does your college have a Masters software or a MBA prgram you’re able to do? bypass that path first and then take a seat to your examination. The graduate Audit classes will extra beneficial than possibly be resembling the undergrad audit classes. UOP is in basic terms too costly and a great mistake.