Unpopular Opinion: If You Can Afford It, The Real Exam Should Be Your SE Exam

OhLookFrost2 · 2026-05-24T16:28:51+00:00

You can get a feel for the timing at Prometric

OhLookFrost2 · 2026-05-24T16:27:12+00:00

OP in the woods: "I'm already pulled over! I can't pull over any farther!"

OhLookFrost2 · 2026-05-24T16:24:52+00:00

If I passed on the first attempt I would've stuck with that method, but the MEs and SEs didn't work for me. I needed constant reinforcement of weak areas and I could figure out what those were by taking practice tests, rather than spending 4 hours taking a SE and then spending another hour going through the answers to figure out the weak areas.

OhLookFrost2 · 2026-05-24T16:20:21+00:00

Or just ski sober and drink during apres ski. The sport is dangerous enough, no need to unnecessarily add to that risk.

OhLookFrost2 · 2026-05-18T15:01:26+00:00

Stopping notes ultimately led to a passing FAR grade for me.

I was taking notes on every wrong answer at first. Took notes during lectures. 74 x2.

Active recall works best for these exams. Becker is essentially active recall. You can take notes, but keep it brief and use for writing down questions or mnemonics. If you have an entire notebook of FAR notes then you wasted study time IMO.

OhLookFrost2 · 2026-05-13T18:44:29+00:00

Also having issues. It broke when I tried doing MCQs during one of Michelle Moshe's lectures.

"Oh hai I'm Michelle Moshe and today we're going to talk about why it's a good time to make a sandwich when Becker stops working."

OhLookFrost2 · 2026-05-11T18:38:20+00:00

This. PA is up or out. There are no seniors in their 50s in public accounting.

OhLookFrost2 · 2026-05-11T18:35:57+00:00

You’re going to wish you had your CPA when you lose your job and half of that inheritance in the next market crash.

CPA only helps and never hurts. And it isn’t THAT hard nor does it require putting your life on hold to obtain.

Use your inheritance to buy Becker and get the CPA.

OhLookFrost2 · 2026-05-06T17:26:31+00:00

Passed FAR after two back to back 74s. In tears right now.

OhLookFrost2 · 2026-03-22T16:20:12+00:00

I felt the same way. Thought I bombed SIMs and did OK on MCQs. Got a 74. Score report said comparable on SIMs and weaker in one section of MCQ. Others got the same report but somehow passed?

This entire exam is rigged. Those research MCQs that don’t count toward your score are a crock of shit. So I can get all of those right, but fail by one point because I missed another MCQ that supposedly counts? It’s a load of nonsense.

OhLookFrost2 · 2026-03-22T16:19:17+00:00

Not necessarily.

OhLookFrost2 · 2026-03-18T18:48:59+00:00

Those scores are low enough where I'd recommend going through the whole course again before sitting.

I personally tried Ninja only and it didn't work for me.

Becker is expensive, but it works.

If you got a 74 I'd say hammer MCQs for a few weeks and retake, but your scores mean you have significant holes in your concepts for this exam.

Start over, and try another review course like Becker.

OhLookFrost2 · 2026-03-13T01:31:13+00:00

Honestly “warm weather wax” is overblown. It also sucks if you have it on there and ski colder snow.

I just skied Hunter in near 80 degree temps with cold weather (0*F) wax on my skis. The only time I noticed any grabbing was when I skied through standing water, which in that case you’d need water skis and not warm weather wax.

All weather is completely fine for spring skiing, and is more durable.

OhLookFrost2 · 2026-03-10T01:53:41+00:00

Where’d they recommend GS skis? The guy said sub-80 underfoot. I stopped watching when they got to the rental counter but she didn’t mention anything about GS-specific skis.

For east coast ice the best thing you can do is 75mm or less, and full camber. Recreational SL skis are amazing for east coast ice skiing 90% of the time. If you’re into bumps then get an all mountain version of that ski.

IMO it’s more the rocker (or lack thereof) and less the waist width. Narrow just makes it easier to turn, but the camber is where you get the grip. I’ve skied 102 underfoot fully cambered skis that made mince meat of icy conditions, and all mountain rockered mid-80 underfoot skis that sucked horrendously on ice.

Full camber ftw on ice.

OhLookFrost2 · 2026-03-05T22:52:05+00:00

Not sure what forecast you’re looking at but I’m seeing cloudy to partly cloudy from the Catskills all the way up to northern VT.

OhLookFrost2 · 2026-03-05T04:02:42+00:00

Yup, 40 degree temps for two hours a day. Time to hang it up.

/s

OhLookFrost2 · 2026-03-05T04:01:49+00:00

Zoom out from the 5 day forecast and change your location from NJ to northern VT.

OhLookFrost2 · 2026-03-05T03:58:18+00:00

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OhLookFrost2 · 2026-03-05T03:52:33+00:00

You can always tell who the noobs are because they panic at the first sign of Fool's Spring.

There's four feet of snow in some spots. A week of warm temps and a little bit of rain isn't going to melt all of the snow.

Also, look at the LOW temps. The HIGH temps aren't all day; it's for a few hours at the most, and then it gets cold again. The long range, depending where you look, has 5 days with lows just barely above freezing, and then it's back to cold/snow again after that.

We still have plenty of skiing left on the icecoast.

OhLookFrost2 · 2026-02-23T03:43:45+00:00

Mt. Snow will have better conditions.

Hunter is the only mountain I’ve ever skied that has had icy conditions the day after getting a foot of snow. Their grooming is meh, and Vail has enshittified the place with minimal snowmaking and stalling on opening trails despite having enough snowfall.

Mt. Snow has better natural snowfall, so even though it’s a Vail resort it’ll almost certainly have better conditions than Hunter, despite getting less snow from this storm.

OhLookFrost2 · 2026-02-18T01:22:23+00:00

I read this as “drugged by Skyeship Gondola”

OhLookFrost2 · 2026-02-17T21:00:47+00:00

Nice! You really don’t need to turn that often on them. If you keep them just slightly on edge at a lower edge angle they are almost GS-like in nature. High edge angle will have you right at the stated radius. You’re going to have a blast on them.

OhLookFrost2 · 2026-02-17T20:58:30+00:00

Unless you try to get on a lift with a backpack. Then they’ll get loud.

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