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Posted: 24 Feb 2011 at 10:37 | IP Logged
I took the test this week. There is definitely a gap between the various
preparation courses and the actual test. I studied mostly with Becker
and supplemented with Wiley questions and Kaplan (excellent) flashcards.
There was 1 1/2 pages in Becker that I had 2 simulations on that
material! Neither Becker nor Kaplan flashcards had extensive questions
on that topic. The questions were on mundane
details that are almost irrelevant to the main materials.
With that said, I had some
questions in my second testlet which were elementary questions. I
guess that I did so bad on my first testlet, that they gave me the
simplest of questions for my second testlet.
Anyway, let me write which preparation courses I used. I used Becker
lectures with partial mcq. I used heavily the Wiley book and test bank
CD for mcq, since I think that their answers are much better explained
then Becker. Also, I think that it matters a lot that the Wiley
questions are arranged and broken down by small topics. This way you can
nail down every topic separately. Becker throws you, sometimes, 20
pages of lectures and then mixes up the mcq. Wiley, on the other hand,
takes every small topic and categorizes the questions based on that.
Becker should really give you such an option to sort the questions by
small topics.
One small secret is the Kaplan flashcards. The one who wrote it is a
genius. They break down the hardest of subjects into peace meal parts to
fully understand it. They make you understand
everything. They don't necessarily use big numbers to explain things.
They use small simple numbers, and drive the point home. It's not
expensive, and I would recommend everyone to use it and go through it.
As one writer wrote, since it's my last test, when I will see the
results from this test, I'll cry. Either if I failed I'll cry. Or if I
passed I'll for sure cry from joy - to be over all this!
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