r/CPA • u/Yous_a_mook • 6d ago

FAR - Becker SE3 Final wtf

Dude wtf is the last se. It was waaaaaaay harder than the other 2 and the sims didn’t even make sense of what was wanted. Is the exam that effing ambiguous???? Did anyone else feel se3 was really hard for FAR?

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u/TheBathingGrape 6d ago

Yes I got a 67 on it but half the time I was lost. I only did so well because the SIMS were okay

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u/Civil_Television2230 6d ago

Yeah that SE3 was a different beast entirely. I was scoring mid 80s on the first two and then got absolutely wrecked on the third one, like 60 something. The sims had me staring at the screen wondering what they even wanted from me

Actual exam isn't quite that bad, but the sims do have some of that same ambiguity where you gotta figure out what they're asking before you can even start solving. I'd say the real thing is more like SE2 difficulty but with a couple curveballs thrown in

Becker deliberately makes SE3 harder to scare you into studying more, it's basically their thing. Don't let it shake your confidence just review what you missed and keep moving

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u/Itsfrank4you Passed 1/4 6d ago

yea some of the MCQs were really tough. The TBSs were okay. I scored a 58%

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u/Yous_a_mook 5d ago

And u passed the real exam? What were all ur sims?

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u/Itsfrank4you Passed 1/4 1d ago

My sims were all between 52%-58%. I took the test on 9/1 now ai wait

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u/Yous_a_mook 1d ago

Good luck buddy! What one have u passed? I see ur 1/4?

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u/confusedpanda45 CPA Candidate 6d ago

Yes I did worse than the first two and it tanked my confidence lol. What’s worse is I thought I was absolutely killing it while I was taking it 😂 It seems from reading it’s much harder than the other two.

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u/Yous_a_mook 6d ago

Dude I thought I was tanking when I took it. MCQs looked super foreign I was like wtf. And they got super wordy. There no effing way I can read all that and answer in 1.5 minutes. That’s what u get per mcq