I have never posted on this forum before but I do come on here frequently to read people’s discussions. I am now turning to the forum for support!!! I sat for my first section, FAR, in October 08 and since then I feel like I have made no progress. At this point I have only passed Audit, which I passed on my third time taking it. I have taken FAR twice and I just got a third failing grade on FAR about two hours ago. I have taken REG once and failed. I will be retaking REG next week, retaking FAR at the end of October, and taking BEC for the first time in November. I really don’t know what I am doing wrong. I am putting in the time and I am putting forth the effort but the results I get are so frustrating and it makes me feel so stupid. I read how others study and I do the same thing so there has to be something that I’m missing. I know I can pass this test but I am just so tired and every time I get a failing grade it knocks me down even harder! I don’t want to give up but at what point do I draw the line? Im sure there are others that feel the same way. I am disappointed in myself and Im losing confidence. I need to focus but its becoming really hard for me!

If you are really putting everything toward it (i.e., doing everything your review program asks of you), you may need to take another approach. You shouldn't keep doing what you have been doing and expect a different result.

I have taken a couple of different approaches: make note cards, listen to cram mp3s on my ipod, switch from Becker to Yaeger, make my husband read me MCQs while I am driving so that I have to pay more attention and anticipate the right answer before he reads the choices, take notes on notebook paper, run right before the exam to awaken, schedule exams early in the morning, spread out studying, compress studying, take exam late in the day, take the exam on a Saturday, etc. You will eventually hit what really works for you. And remember that what works well on one section may not work on another.

Depending on your grasp of the material, there are positives and negatives to both taking exams one right after another. You just have to figure out what will work for you. I have 3 exams to pass by the end of October (don't want to lose my 84 in AUD) so I am taking them all in October but all of the material is there and relatively fresh. Since I am compressing, I know that I will not have a life for almost all of October. But, that will prevent me from procrastinating. The negative is that I will not have a life. The way that I see it, I am too invested in this process not to finish it out whatever it takes. If you spread out the studying, it makes it harder to remember when it gets close to exam time. That is the negative that I found with spreading out studying. 

I definately have not hit what really works for me yet. I know the longer I wait the more I'll forget that's why I'm retaking REG and FAR in October. This will be the second time that I'm taking REG and the first time around I felt like I knew the information well but I did terrible on the exam. I have 4 days till the exam and Im scatter brain in what to do to make the most of these 4 days. For all the sections I was going through the chapters, reading the flashcards, taking notes, doing the homework, doing the sims, doing the ones I got wrong over and over again, doing the practice tests, etc... Im not sure what to change in my process. Maybe I need to focus more on the concepts and not as much as the practice questions....I dont know.

What did your diagnostic report say were your weak areas? 

When you study for a retake, are you just studying the areas that you are weak in, or redoing the whole program?

What study material are you using?