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rainnyl
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Posted: 03 Jan 2010 at 22:51 | IP Logged  

I'm on F5.  Bonds are killing me.  My exam is 1/29.  I work full time, and we've been told to be really busy... most likely working until midnight busy.... if not on weekends busy.  Maybe? 

SO now I'm panicking and asking you all for advice:  if you had to do a crash course in FARE and skim the material, how would you do it?  Ive noticed that for F5, specially for bonds, I understand the book examples but the hw kills me.  Should I move on to the next topic and just leave it?  And I know that Becker is notorious for having harder hw questions than the real exam.

But Ive also heard that FARE is a beast.  I've heard more people say "I failed" coming out of FARE than for any of the other sections.  What to do?
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you are not going to get through the exam by skimming the material.  It was all over the place! Maybe you should reschedule in a different window. If you don't have a review course, then I suggest Yaeger.  They resolved many problems I had in FAR, specifically with

bonds, cash flows, cash to accrual basis, foreign currency translation, gov't and nfp accounting.

You can get their cram dvd also, but the pace is VERY fast compared to the regular classes.



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lovethepirk
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Posted: 04 Jan 2010 at 10:59 | IP Logged  

rainny,

Ask some questions.....Why are bonds killing you.  I'm sure plenty of us here feel they are easy now so we can get you there fast.

Ask as many questions as you can come up with.  Without asking us or yourself questions you will not learn...


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rainnyl
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Posted: 04 Jan 2010 at 13:04 | IP Logged  

Im using Becker, and Ive already been to the live lectures once, but it's been a few months.  My NTS expires so I can't reschedule it. 

Of course skimming isn't the best idea, but if you were crunched for time and this is all you could do: what would you do?

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I would watch the rest of the lectures just to have an understanding of each topic and spend most of the time doing MCQ...and the 2 final reviews..also some of the sims might be helpful, especially those from Chap 3 and Chap 7 (cash flows)...definately do not skip any chapters..they are all there in the exam...

You can also use this forum for questions you might have..look at the previous posts, some of the questions you have could already be posted in this forum from others...it might help you.. 

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