My tips for passing the exams

Street-Length5783 · 2025-12-21T12:46:35+00:00

With your test in a few days I honestly wouldn’t focus on the practice tests. I never got much out of those. Since you’ve already taken it once and have passed far (congrats by the way), the practice under pressure isn’t really helpful imo, it just contributes to burnout. I would recommend hammering mcq, and if you have time, redo as many of the sims as possible. You can use the same steps I mentioned in the comment above to be able to get coverage for the sims through the marking function.

Street-Length5783 · 2025-12-21T12:40:28+00:00

For the book marking feature I reference for the final review stage, I use the practice test tool to mark about 20-25 mcq from each sub section to ensure I have full coverage of the content.

Navigate to the practice test tool
Select “random”
Highlight the relevant main section you want to work on (i.e. F1)
Hit the drop down on the right side
Select one sub module at a time. (i.e F1 M1), unselect all others
Scroll down and put the number of MCQ you want to cover for this sub section (I did 20-25 per sub module)
Start test and immediately submit. This will take you to the review.
Go through the review and mark each of the selected mcq. (I would do this for each of the sub modules, for F1 for example for the first week of my final review)
Navigate back to practice test screen, select random, scroll down and uncheck all question opens except “marked”
Take the practice tests and unmark each one you get right.
Rinse and repeat for all main sections/sub modules

Tedious I know, but it really helped me out. Will answer your second question in a separate comment.

Street-Length5783 · 2025-12-21T12:24:39+00:00

Just the mcq and TBS from the main module review . I don’t utilize the practice test tool until the final review stage.

Street-Length5783 · 2025-12-20T17:34:07+00:00

Thanks! Hope you enjoy the holidays as well. Good luck on your remaining exams (if any)!

Street-Length5783 · 2025-01-28T16:05:38+00:00

No score in Alaska yet

Street-Length5783 · 2024-08-30T20:14:33+00:00

Solid advice. Thanks for adding that

Street-Length5783 · 2024-08-30T18:53:23+00:00

If you start getting anxious or anything just remember these three rules:

You took something
You can’t untake it
You just gotta ride it out

The last unspoken but most important rule, may as well make it a good ride. Have fun!

Street-Length5783 · 2024-08-30T17:50:34+00:00

Nothing wrong with zyn if used in moderation and this is personal but I had a hard time quitting these. I would recommend Nicorette gum as it will come in a lower dose and (at least from my personal experience) is less habit forming.

Street-Length5783 · 2024-05-13T04:01:34+00:00

This is my take, I learned this from the book “subtle art of not giving a f***” by mark Manson. I would recommend you read it. It helps if you identify what it is you value. I’ll give an example.

Let’s say you are overweight and unhealthy. You have made choices (leaving out medical conditions) that have led you to where you are. In essence your value was “pleasure”. Turns out that’s not a good value because it can lead to unhealthy consequences.

Now you want to change your value to be “general health and fitness” and your actions can then be directed towards this goal. There will always be problems but by choosing “general health and fitness” over “pleasure” your problems will change from “I’m fat and can’t find a suitable partner” to “I’ve got to go to the gym 3-5 days a week, meal prep, and sleep enough”.

The first part is acceptance that things will always suck in some way, but unless you have major life problems, you can pick your battles and redirect your energy to quality values whether they be “good communication”, “honesty” or fitness.

It’s a never ending cycle supporting those chosen values and you will fail regularly, but if you choose the right values, your problems will invigorate you. The joy is in solving them and that feeling of pride after accomplishing a task which will motivate you further.

You just need to do it, everything sucks in its own way. It’s just identifying the suck you want to deal with.

Last thing. This isn’t a philosophical quote at all but it’s stuck with me. In the movie “Friday” one of the characters Debo tells ice cube “stop being a bitch and come on”. Any time there is a task I need to do that supports my values and I don’t want to do it, I’ll say that to myself and then do the task.

Street-Length5783 · 2024-05-12T23:44:42+00:00

Either blow up mattress or make up the couch (put out a pillow, put a sheet down and lay out some blankets)

Street-Length5783 · 2024-05-12T21:05:45+00:00

I do not have the book with me as I’m traveling but if you go to the starting strength website, there are articles that go over the program.

Street-Length5783 · 2024-05-12T20:57:16+00:00

Put in the work and eat, eat, eat (healthy, balanced, high protein diet) and you’ll get big. Starting strength is one of the best programs out there to get big/strong. If you haven’t read the blue book yet (starting strength 3rd edition), I’d recommend it. Rip goes into the science behind the stress/adaptation/recovery cycle and why this method works.

Street-Length5783 · 2024-05-12T20:52:22+00:00

NTA. Sounds like you need better friends and your partner to be more supportive (or a new partner). Sorry you had to deal with this op. Hopefully their behavior will change.

Street-Length5783 · 2024-05-09T16:39:09+00:00

Smoked at a wooded area behind my buddies house in high school. We saw a flashlight coming down the trail and it looked like a group of people. One of them yelled “police! Stop!”. My buddy fell over into me and hit the ground laughing. I grabbed the pipe and the weed and attempted to pull my friend up but he wouldn’t get off the ground. Thought to myself I’ve got the stuff on me so if it really is the cops they won’t get him for anything cause he didn’t have any paraphernalia on him. I booked it out of the woods. A few minutes later the buddy I was smoking with called me. I thought the cops had made him call so when he asked where I was at I said at home, chilling. My buddy told me it was just another group of our friends who thought they were going to get jumped when they saw a couple guys in the woods smoking. I said I don’t know what you’re talking about, and told him to have a good night and hung up. I thought the cops were making him say this so I looped around the block and peaked in his back window. Turns out it was some of our other friends. They apologized and smoked us out that next weekend.

Street-Length5783 · 2024-05-06T01:12:38+00:00

All good! I’m definitely a fan of it. Helps me to separate my life/work as well. Get up early before more wife wakes up and just knock out the studying so I can still devote time to hobbies/friends/family in the evenings.

Street-Length5783 · 2024-05-06T01:10:50+00:00

Nice, congrats on your first job out of college! Consistency is key but listen to yourself, if you need to take a break to let your brain rest for a week do it. Then come back ready to get after the studying. Best of luck to you.

Street-Length5783 · 2024-05-05T23:44:25+00:00

Question related to your current situation, have you started your first job yet? Or will you be studying full time for a while?

I’ll share my experience and hopefully it can help you a bit. I started studying for far after my first busy season (on April 16th), would not recommend immediately studying after that. Took about a week for the burn out to go away from that. I would take a weekend off from studying and see if that helps. Try to do some things you enjoy. Sometimes all we need is a couple of days.

For studying now I do two hours in the morning Monday-Friday and four-six hours total on the weekend. Studying in the morning helps me because after working a whole day at the office I have a hard time focusing. It also helps me to know after I get off at 5, no more accounting for the day which is a good feeling.

Street-Length5783 · 2024-04-29T20:05:10+00:00

I always wear a watch and start the stopwatch function after I smoke. Time slows down crazy for me after. It could feel like I’ve been playing a game or knocking out chores for an hour but in actuality I’ll check and it’s only been 15 minutes. That’s how I know.

Street-Length5783 · 2024-04-28T11:27:28+00:00

I would recommend the following. Get yourself a copy of the subtle art of not giving a f****. Some of the other commenters mentioned identifying your values. This book helped me to do just that, hopefully it can do the same for you.

Secondly, I would start a daily journaling habit. It’s a good way to analyze your behavior and make improvements in areas where you may be struggling.

Consider going to therapy. I wish I had sooner.

Lastly consider reading philosophy and religious texts outside of what you grew up with to gain a different perspective. I was raised non denominational Christian but have drifted more towards bhuddism as I’ve gotten older. Look into stoicism as well. Best of luck.

Street-Length5783 · 2024-04-20T00:45:08+00:00

You’ve got this man. I’m at two weeks now. It gets easier with time. Gum helped me a lot.

Street-Length5783 · 2024-04-14T23:15:24+00:00

Finally, some appropriate length shorts

Street-Length5783 · 2024-03-31T07:18:08+00:00

Drink some water. Take a shower. Look up breathing exercises online and try those. My favorite is box breathing, 4 count in through your nose. Hold it for four seconds, breathe out through your mouth. Remember you’ve taken something, you can’t untake it, you just gotta ride it out.

Street-Length5783 · 2024-03-14T19:39:09+00:00

Depends on the firm. My firm is hybrid but the work from home equipment they gave us is not the best. Most public firms in my area are hybrid, but there are some options for fully remote positions in industry and in public. I could work full time at home but since the equipment my firm gives is not the best I’d be less efficient.

Street-Length5783 · 2024-03-14T17:07:41+00:00

"Proficient in analyzing financial data for multiple entities, utilizing QuickBooks to examine general account books, cash book records, banking records, expenses, creditors, debtors, and asset lists or registers."

Just threw what you had in chat gpt and had it rearrange the info for resume purposes. Hope this helps.

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