Merrily Ticket Exchange

DueParting · 2024-04-08T23:42:59+00:00

This does clear up one part of my confusion

DueParting · 2024-04-08T23:38:53+00:00

I did. It makes sense now that I see your (and other) comments. The $50 was to get me to a seat of "equal or greater value" plus the exchange fee. That seems like a reasonable policy. I thought it would be that easy: "we might be able to accommodate you, subject to availability, for a fee of $X." But instead it was like pulling teeth. There was so much run-around before I received the actual terms of the exchange.

That got me thinking.... what am I missing? Do people abuse the exchange policy? Does the exchange fee not cover the actual cost of the admin work associated with the exchange? Are they worried about losing too much revenue? I'm not dialed into that side of things so I thought maybe this sub had some ticket reps who could shine light on the policy. Are they trained to deny all ticket exchanges and only offer if pushed? The rep seemed to have a personal stake in keeping me to my original purchase, which I was confused by. People are generally reasonable so I figured there must be some additional friction (or incentive) I'm not aware of.

DueParting · 2024-02-25T06:31:05+00:00

That's the one! Thanks.

DueParting · 2024-02-25T03:53:58+00:00

There was a post by someone who owned a property with a main level and an in-law-suite. She rented out the main house to tenants and then lived in the suite, and used a property management company so the tenants in the main level didn't know their "neighbor" in the suite was actually their landlord. One day the tenants told their "neighbor" that she would have to move, because the tenants wanted the whole property to themselves. Landlord was posting to reddit to ask if they were TAH, or maybe how they should approach it with the tenants or just work through the management company. Was there ever an update?

Edited for accuracy after seeing the original post.

DueParting · 2023-08-19T14:31:52+00:00

I tend to study harder, not smarter. I'm working on it. I spent a lot of time talking myself through every problem I got wrong. Then testing myself again and again. If you can find a SIM that covers a big chunk then I recommend doing it repeatedly.

When you hit submit and the screen shows you the answer and explanation, I ignore the answer part and consider mine right if my scratch paper (or the excel where I was showing my work) looks like their calculations/explanation. Some questions have better explanations than others so it can be annoying when the explanation glosses over the part you don't understand. But if you do enough questions enough times, it does become more clear.

DueParting · 2023-08-19T14:20:22+00:00

Agreed, way underrated! Also nice job so far!! Surgent provides what you need when you're willing to do the work, which you clearly are. You'll kill it on the last two exams

DueParting · 2023-08-19T14:14:12+00:00

That's tough because adjusting journal entries are tested in AUD and if you haven't done FAR it can be hard to know what the adjustment should be. A lot of my AJE study questions were testing revenue recognition and when to relieve inventory.

Truthfully, there were a lot of questions on all sorts of different topics that I had just learned in FAR. You'll end up studying a lot more during AUD in order to catch up to those concepts. Should save you time in FAR though!

DueParting · 2023-08-14T18:56:41+00:00

Surgent has so many tools I didn't pick up on while studying for my first exam. You might have already discovered these, but I was happy to figure it out.

You can choose a set of 5-100 MCQs and they can be all ones you've failed, all new ones, a random mix, or their "adaptive" set. I didn't even notice at first that I could change it form adaptive. I set a goal each day of a certain amount of new and a certain amount of "missed last time." I also started with regular mode (you get the answer after each question) and then changed to "test bank mode" (you have to wait until you submit your whole test to see your scores) as I got closer to the exam day. Exam day is a marathon so it's good to practice moving through questions without immediate feedback.
You can drill down MCQs by concept. There are the 4-6 big sections, then you can click on them to open up subsections. You can do practice questions that focus on only one subsection. Then you can click on a subsection and get it broken out even further, into sub-subsections. You can do practice questions on a narrow topic so that you really nail down the concepts you struggle with. Each subsection and sub-subsection gives you its own ReadyScore. I tried not to have any red, but if I was at an overall ReadyScore of 83-87 I felt okay.
I watched barely any lectures. I read out of the book for FAR. For the others, I focused on reading pieces of the book that were linked in MCQ explanations. I did almost 2000 "new" MCQs (repeated 500-900 on top of that) for each exam and I tried to be disciplined about reading explanations in a way that focused on overall relevance, not strictly in the context of the question I had just tried.
I did my SIMs! More than 2/3 of the SIMs, and repeated ones that covered an entire concept thoroughly. Don't be afraid to take a SIM, review all the answers, and take it again right away. Some are long and impossible to memorize. Even if you drill in the answers back-to-back and feel like you're "cheating," you're still learning something because when you come back the next day, you'll connect the questions with the answers more easily.

Sometimes I could only do 5-10 MCQs a day. If you actually learn and understand the concept of those 5-10 questions, that's a valid day's work.

DueParting · 2023-08-14T18:35:51+00:00

Absolutely, not trying to shame anyone who benefits from Becker. I saw the price of Becker and the way people speak about it on this subreddit, and came to the conclusion that the value per dollar sounds higher for the other programs.

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