I'm in a similar situation, graduated in May, have not starting working yet.

I used Becker. I studied around 240 hours over 8 weeks. In the end, how much and how long you study depends on the individual. If you were a good accounting student and learned the material in college, you could easily get by with less.

I considered the "risk" of taking the exam and failing. No matter how much you study there will always be a chance that you will fail, BUT the more you study and more hours you put in, the smaller that risk becomes. It depends on how much risk you can tolerate.

I'm in a similar situation, graduated in May, have not starting working yet.

I used Becker. I studied around 240 hours over 8 weeks. In the end, how much and how long you study depends on the individual. If you were a good accounting student and learned the material in college, you could easily get by with less.

I considered the "risk" of taking the exam and failing. No matter how much you study there will always be a chance that you will fail, BUT the more you study and more hours you put in, the smaller that risk becomes. It depends on how much risk you can tolerate.