I prepared using Wiley.  In particularly I found the COSO and IT questions to be the hardest.  I thought those questions in particular were asked on the actual exam with more shades of gray than the test bank did. 

I think I did well enough to pass (75=99, after all), but the Wiley test bank set my expectations at a level where I thought the exam would be easier.  For the other 3 exam sections, I found Wiley to be harder than the exam.  I averaged 80% raw score in the BEC test bank; that didn't happen for me in the exam. 

Best of luck to you tomorrow!

cassinova73 wrote: man i am here doing my final review for monday.. Why do you believe it was hard? How did you prepare?

How did the exam go? i just came back and i think i got 3 testlets that were everyone's nightmare. Majority were theory questions heavy on ECON. these questions were not at all straight forward. There were some theories that i never even heard of in Becker or Wiley. It's a 50/50 chance i will pass. Two of the written communication were from FAR. In summary, this is the hardest exam i took out of the three i took so far (FAR, AUD, BEC). i got a massive headache now and pure mental torment of thinking about re-taking this exam. i am praying i passed and dont deal with this.

Are there any "test" questions in BEC that dont count like the other exams? reason i am asking was because i only got 24 questions per testlet.

@tho9504- The BEC exam has 24 questions per testlet only and I know for sure that 4 questions per testlet are pretest questions...so is 1 written communication out of the 3. There is a high chance that the theories you have never heard before are pretest questions...

My exam is in October,so if you don't mind, without going into too much detail, would you like to let me know if majority of the questions (especially on COSO) were covered either in the Becker passmaster or in the textbook?

Good Luck on your result !!

Ray11,

  There were not that many questions similiar to becker. I mean, you needed to use some logic to weed out the bad answers. I didnt had much IT at all. There was a lot on COSO especially ERM, but i have not encountered them in Becker. my suggestion would be to go to COSO website and read their literatures. I pretty much guessed through them. I wished for more theory questions before going into the exam and got my wish. what a bad wish that was. half way through the exam, i was begging for calculation questions. i did had couple calculations for which the topics were covered in Becker for others the calculated "should be" answers were not a choice, so i had to try different variations of some equations and if the answer was there i moved on. The 3 hrs is not at all enough. as i was typing my last WC, i timed out. i was in such a rush, i hope that WC was a pretest. Two subjects i got hit heavy with was ECON and COSO. make sure to review them thoroughly. I believe these questions were in the gray. either all of the choices looked like a wrong answer or all of them looked like a good answer, so it was really hard to choose. Now for the waiting game. I am praying i passed. i will definitely take a 75. i dont care about getting a high score or anything as long as i dont encounter this kind of test again. The thing i realized was that the other exams i took (FAR & AUD), they were from specific accounting topics. BEC contains all the other courses i ever took in college + cost accounting. I dont know why some people assume BEC is a cakewalk compared to the others? BEC has the lowest passing rate.

Anyway, this is just my bad luck. i feel like i have received the short end of the stick and was the unlucky chosen one for these 3 testlets.

 i am sure others will have a better teslets than the one i had. I am going on to REG now and and see at the end of September what the verdict is.