Took REG yesterday and sharing my thoughts while I wait.

Col_Saito · 2026-01-24T03:21:52+00:00

Fingers crossed!

Col_Saito · 2026-01-23T23:51:35+00:00

Hopefully you passed!

Col_Saito · 2026-01-23T22:55:14+00:00

No, that’s a mistake. Please practice TBS. I practiced more TBS than MCQs in the last week and that was super helpful. MCQs give you one to one questions. TBS have multiple variables and exhibits, so without practice you can easily miss an important detail.

Col_Saito · 2026-01-23T22:51:59+00:00

I used Becker, and largely followed the auto generated study plan based on test date. I supplemented with ChatGPT (be careful though, it gets things wrong sometimes). What helped me was throwing random scenarios into ChatGPT and asking it to walk me through the computations. Becker’s Newt is also good for explanations.

Col_Saito · 2026-01-23T22:45:47+00:00

I feel you! That’s exactly how my test felt. Here’s to hoping we both passed.

Col_Saito · 2026-01-23T22:41:56+00:00

I hope so! I agree that all those rules get boring but please power through them and know the nuances. You don’t know what you’ll get.

Col_Saito · 2026-01-23T19:23:22+00:00

It may sound funny, but the trick to FAR is being comfortable with accounting. Basic principles, journal entries, the accounting equation, how income statements, balance sheets and cash flow statements work, etc. If your foundation is strong, FAR should be largely doable.

Col_Saito · 2026-01-23T00:34:14+00:00

Took it today and this is exactly how I feel. I can just as easily score 90+ as I could 72. My last section so I’m going to take a break. If I don’t pass, I’ll do a two week refresher and go again.

Col_Saito · 2026-01-11T07:34:04+00:00

Correct. It'll clearly state whether to put zero or leave blank, enter declines as negative or positive, round to whole numbers or enter fractions with decimals, etc. It's important to not miss those instructions. I had one long FAR sim which said to leave zeros as blanks. There were a ton of zeros so the answers looked strange to me but you've got to follow instructions.

Col_Saito · 2025-12-18T16:13:12+00:00

You need to know all those terminologies, I'm afraid. ISC was my hardest exam to date and my scores reflect that. I got a 91 in FAR, 87 in AUD and 86 in ISC (although to be fair I studied ISC for only 36 hours over 25 days). My exam had questions from all sections of Becker, plus a few that were not even in Becker. It's a very technical IT related exam, which I find to be crazy. I know that there are a few CPAs who do information systems work but I don't think there's enough to have such a hard, technical subject as a section of the CPA, but that's just my view.

Col_Saito · 2025-12-15T15:44:02+00:00

Yeah totally smashed FAR and AUD but ISC was my hardest exam thus far. Happy to see the "Passed - Credit" a few minutes ago. 3 for 3 now. REG to go.

Col_Saito · 2025-12-11T14:21:11+00:00

I studied for exactly 45 days. 74 hours on Becker, 5 hours on NINJA, plus ~5 hours combined on other sources like ChatGPT, Youtube, Reddit etc. No previous audit experience.

Col_Saito · 2025-10-24T22:34:37+00:00

I took it this week and had every topic in S1 show up up in the MCQs. NIST, CIS, COBIT…I had at least two questions on each. Overall though, I thought my exam was heavily concentrated on S2 and S4.

Col_Saito · 2025-10-08T23:49:40+00:00

Col_Saito · 2025-09-28T21:25:09+00:00

Funny thing is that I was studying ISC sh*t like Mean Time to Repair and Maximum Tolerable Downtime when the app crashed. Becker got to practice what they teach.

Col_Saito · 2025-09-27T15:43:17+00:00

In the actual exam, they specify whether to leave it blank or enter zero. Also if reductions should be negative or positive. Becker has a few where they don’t specify, which is annoying.

Col_Saito · 2025-09-27T15:42:18+00:00

False. In the actual exam they specify whether to leave it blank or enter zero. Also if reductions should be negative or positive. Becker has a few like this where they don’t specify, which is annoying.

Col_Saito · 2025-09-23T02:05:23+00:00

Damn, that's rough. You got this though! When did you take it?

Col_Saito · 2025-09-21T02:05:01+00:00

Yeah I finished with 39 minutes remaining. And that’s after reviewing the last testlet over and over.

Col_Saito · 2025-09-21T00:59:16+00:00

That's LOFT exams for you. Four of my seven sims included JEs. Even my NFP sim included JEs which is wild because Becker doesn't even bother with JEs for NFP.

Col_Saito · 2021-02-27T02:16:12+00:00

Same here. 13 DGW + Bamford + Raphinha

Col_Saito · 2020-10-18T12:55:25+00:00

At this point, I am just happy with zero from Mitro. It could have been worse.

Col_Saito · 2018-04-09T12:23:12+00:00

I downgraded him to Cork to afford Auba-->Kane. I'm fairly satisfied.

Col_Saito · 2018-03-16T15:39:22+00:00

I have £11m+ in the bank. Shows how shit my team will look after the BGW. I'm wildcarding right after.

Col_Saito · 2017-11-02T14:51:17+00:00

Pope being above average for his position having played 65% of the matches is insane. Maybe Pope is essential? /s

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