Posted: 08 Mar 2011 at 17:08 | IP Logged
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For those of you who did Becker, were there items you felt Becker didn't cover sufficiently?
FAR ADVICE...
FWIW, I took FAR 2/28, which was my last section. I mainly used BECKER as my study foundation. I have passed every section first attempt with studying every chapter, every video, going through ALL the questions, simulations and final exams. If there were concepts I needed extra work on I sought those out as well.
BECKER covers most everything BUT in addition, go on CPA REVIEW for FREE, go through the AICPA last few years. This helped me with wording that was different from Becker. The wiley book did this as well.
This is the only section that I felt that the amount of difficult concepts could eat up so much time on the test as well as the amount of calculations (verification with that stupid calculator) and easily know everything and still not pass. Everything rom Time Management to IRFS through, Pension, Consolidation, Cash Flow, Bonds, Debt, Government and Non-Profit and I've only touched on the major topics that could be selected. This section can and will test you on the minuet details as well as the concepts of the more difficult subjects. For someone who told you that last window there was no Government and this window there was 20%, that's just the way it goes. They have so much data to choose from there isn't one thing that isn't fair game that can trip you up if they choose to put LOTS of questions on it.
This was the only section I actually MOVED my test date to the last day of the window for that reason, I felt I needed more time to review the stuff I thought I had down pat 7 weeks ago.
The only thing I recommend is control what you can - that is the amount of studying you need to do to feel prepared enough to have a command of the subject matter and push through that last week to review rather than try to figure out what they are going or not going to test.
Good Luck..
__________________ Cathe
Colorado Board, NASBA
BEC,REG, AUD Passed 2010
FAR - 2/28/2011
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