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I just took FAR yesterday, my first CPA exam attempt.  I studied full time for 6 weeks and thought I knew all of my stuff.  During the test I was getting very frustrated at the obscurity of some of the questions.  Every IFRS question was about some random disclosure and I did not even recall seeing it in Becker... and I felt like my test was well over 20% gov and NFP (my only weak area).  Overall the other questions were fairly similar to Becker but less math and more of the theory.  Also, I had 2 research questions in my simulations, and I thought you only get one. All I can do now is hope I passed and start Auditing...
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Im with you racercpa, it sounds like we had similiar testlets as mine was way more than 20% governmental.  I would go as far as to say maybe 35% governmental.  Some of the questions were on topics that I felt I knew inside and out, but on the exam they worded things in a way I had never even seen before in Becker or in my work experience.  Part of me thinks Becker freaks me out a little bit, because there is much material and I see the big examples throughout the chapters that they tell us to "Memorize This!" (bonds, consilidations, leases, deferred taxes, etc.) and I study those areas inside and out only to find out they are not even on my exam!  Oh well, time will tell how I did.

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Keep in mind that NPO and Governmental will not be tested on the simulations (due to the fact that there's no respective authoritative literature available).  So it would stand to reason that it they would make up about 33% of the MC to justify them being 20% of the total score.  
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One of my simulations was Governmental.  Not sure where you heard that.

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racercpa wrote:
I just took FAR yesterday, my first CPA exam attempt.  I studied full time for 6 weeks and thought I knew all of my stuff.  During the test I was getting very frustrated at the obscurity of some of the questions.  Every IFRS question was about some random disclosure and I did not even recall seeing it in Becker... and I felt like my test was well over 20% gov and NFP (my only weak area).  Overall the other questions were fairly similar to Becker but less math and more of the theory.  Also, I had 2 research questions in my simulations, and I thought you only get one. All I can do now is hope I passed and start Auditing...

My exam was similar except that I only had one research question.  Because the majority was theory I kind of am thinking maybe I didn't do too well along the way.  I've heard people say on here when their testlets get harder they usually get lengthy questions and the calculations more difficult.  I could not tell if my exam got more difficult or maybe I did really bad throughout the MCS calculation questions and that is why the majority of the questions given to me in testlets 2 & 3 were theory.  Heck I don't know, I guess I'll have to wait and see. Good Luck to everyone.

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