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GottaPassCPA
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Posted: 26 Jan 2009 at 19:45 \| IP Logged

Thanks CPAChess! I hope to pass on my first shot with BEC. I plan to study full-time for 5 weeks straight for BEC, 8-10 hours/day. I hope this is enough (?).

Did you feel prepared when taking BEC? Any pointers based on your very recent experience with it? Thanks again!

CPAChess wrote:

Wiley's book MCQ collection is outstanding. They have more MCQ's in the book than they do in their Test-Prep CD. You could say that the MCQ's in the CD is just a fraction of what they have in the book.

For BEC, you can go by with 2008 edition. This is one section that has no changes. Just supplement your study with the 2008 AICPA released questions. I have both 2007 and 2008 Wiley BEC and the only changes are the MCQ's.

In the 2007 edition, the appendix is 2006 AICPA released questions.

In the 2008 edition, it is the 2007 released questions in the appendix and looks like the 2006 released questions was integrated into the MCQ's. But the actual content of the lecture have no changes.

nic4747
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Posted: 27 Jan 2009 at 10:31 \| IP Logged

I used just Wiley and it was more than adequate for all 4 sections of the exam.

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REG - Nov 2008 - Pass
AUD - Jan 2009 - Pass
BEC - Jan 2009 - Pass

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CPAChess
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Posted: 27 Jan 2009 at 14:04 \| IP Logged

GottaPassCPA wrote:

Thanks CPAChess! I hope to pass on my first shot with BEC. I plan to study full-time for 5 weeks straight for BEC, 8-10 hours/day. I hope this is enough (?).

Did you feel prepared when taking BEC? Any pointers based on your very recent experience with it? Thanks again!

5 weeks straight at 8-10 hours a day is more than enough. I really did not get into study mode until Christmas Day. LOL! (I was so scared and uptight about my REG result and I can not concentrate. Result came out on Christmas Day!) And I do work and have little kids. So I can only study 2-3 hours on Mon-Fri, and all day weekend. But I felt more than prepared when I took the exam on 1/17. Hopefully I passed!

Don't understimate the IT part. I thought since I have background with IT it would be easy for me. Some questions and technical terms is easy, but there's just too many questions that is too confusing.

Also, STUDY all the previously released AICPA question. Some of the questions at my exam are very similarly structured with them. VERY SIMILAR.

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REG - 11/22/08 - 77
BEC - 01/17/09 - 91
FAR - 05/23/09 - studying
AUD - 07/25/09

GottaPassCPA
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Posted: 27 Jan 2009 at 17:56 \| IP Logged

CPAChess, thank you my friend! I feel inspired and will study hard so I won't waste my time and money.

GottaPassCPA
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Posted: 27 Jan 2009 at 17:57 \| IP Logged

nic, good stuff my friends! Hope we will all be nicely done with this CPA thing soon.

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