I started studying by watching all the TAC videos. while I listened to the lectures, I was making my own summary notes. The first round of studying for all the 4 subjects took me around 7 months. My pace was slow because I am working full time, so I had to get up at 4:30 or 5:00 every day and study after I finish my work at night.
I wanted to take BEC first because I wanted to start with a subject that is easier for me, but no one thought because of COVID-19, I couldn't take the exam as planned in April. I didn't know when the test center will open again, and it would be a waste of time to study BEC over and over again, so I decided to take FAR as my first subject instead.
[FAR]
I used BECKER as my main study material. In order to know how many questions I need to do each day, I created an excel spreadsheet to manage all my daily progress. Making notes was also very critical for me to see the connections between each chapter, and the overall picture. I think for the multiple-choice questions, I did at least 3 times. For the SIM questions, the first round I did the questions one by one, and it was very time consuming, so the second round, I only looked at each question, and then pictured how I should approach it, then looked at the answers. The main focus was to know the logic, not to memorize the answers.
[BEC]
Since I studied business courses during my undergrad, BEC was not a hard subject for me. The only area I tried to focus on was cost accounting, but TAC’s notes, again, are very good, so I followed TAC way to draw different boxes and everything became very easy to solve. For the essay questions, I printed all the BECKER answers, and then read each one of them carefully. Instead of purely memorizing, I tried to see what the logic was behind each answer.
[REG]
I was lucky to pass REG on my first try and the grade was exactly on the passing line, 75. I felt REG was the hardest exam out of all. The first time after I studied all the REG material, I couldn't understand or remember what I learnt. But I repeated the materials until I could start to get a sense of it. Meanwhile,
I used the TAC’s summary booklet a lot, and also did the厳選問題 at least 5 times. So if you don’t understand the material on your first try, don’t worry, just keep repeating to read the textbook and keep practicing, eventually you will understand the material.
[AUD]
Initially, I thought AUD was easy because there are not many calculation questions, but I was totally wrong. I failed 3 times……
I realized my study method was wrong, I tried to memorize all the details and flows, but I don’t understand why certain things are done in certain ways, and the purpose behind each action. So, I brought a very large piece of blank paper, then started to put all the key points on it. By the end, I started to see the whole picture, how each key point is linked with one another. Because I could see a clearer connection and relationship among different topics, I could spot which section the question is testing on by purely reading the question, so it was a lot easier for me to find the correct answer.
