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goalcpa
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Posted: 19 Nov 2008 at 13:10 | IP Logged  

This is what I would do, TAKE A FEW DAYS OFF AND then once you get back refreshed with a fresh perspective about the Audit test, the first thing I would do is analyze my weak areas and we all know our weak areas and most of the times they are topics we are not comfortable with and they are not the main topic of the chapter for e.g. Comparative financial statements and all its rules regarding reporting is confusing for me and I still havent mastered it, and this is where we feel we can risk not knowing them well because we can expect only one or two questions but sometimes that is the difference between a pass and a fail.

After you analyze your weak areas review them and the rest of the material thoroughly and more importantly make sure that you have the basics of all the topics like it is second nature, then if I know all the answers of my review material even before I finish reading the question I would buy another review material only for the MCQ's & Sim's like Wiley or Gliem.

Next I would buy the Yaegar Cram series  (Not to expensive), use this after you have reviewed all the chapters in your review material, this higlights the main areas and reinforces the concepts in a simplistic way without using too many technical jargons and making concepts a lot easier to understand.

Finally if you guys haven't done the AICPA released questions, I would definietely do them and review each question thoroughly, you should be able to get AICPA released questions from 2005 to 2008 on the web.(Just search for it on the web)

But I would also like to mention that I am taking my Audit test (Last one) on the 26th of Nov

 

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goalcpa wrote:

This is what I would do, TAKE A FEW DAYS OFF AND then once you get back refreshed with a fresh perspective about the Audit test, the first thing I would do is analyze my weak areas and we all know our weak areas and most of the times they are topics we are not comfortable with and they are not the main topic of the chapter for e.g. Comparative financial statements and all its rules regarding reporting is confusing for me and I still havent mastered it, and this is where we feel we can risk not knowing them well because we can expect only one or two questions but sometimes that is the difference between a pass and a fail.

After you analyze your weak areas review them and the rest of the material thoroughly and more importantly make sure that you have the basics of all the topics like it is second nature, then if I know all the answers of my review material even before I finish reading the question I would buy another review material only for the MCQ's & Sim's like Wiley or Gliem.

Next I would buy the Yaegar Cram series  (Not to expensive), use this after you have reviewed all the chapters in your review material, this higlights the main areas and reinforces the concepts in a simplistic way without using too many technical jargons and making concepts a lot easier to understand.

Finally if you guys haven't done the AICPA released questions, I would definietely do them and review each question thoroughly, you should be able to get AICPA released questions from 2005 to 2008 on the web.(Just search for it on the web)

But I would also like to mention that I am taking my Audit test (Last one) on the 26th of Nov

 

 

Thanks goalcpa...your advice is very helpful.  My weak area was probably the difference in me passing/failing.  Well, I'll just start studying again next week and hopefully there's some spots available to retake this in January.



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