USCPA Journey #20 – REG Exam Recap

Finally took the last exam.

I only had about 6 to 7 weeks to study, so my preparation wasn’t sufficient.
In particular, the Business Law (BL) section was completely new to me, and I didn’t have enough time to study it. Toward the later part of my study period, I realized I couldn’t cover everything, so I decided to focus on the Tax section instead. For BL, I skipped most of the lectures and studied mainly through practice questions and memorization, aiming not to miss any conceptual questions. It wasn’t easy, but I have no regrets.

In the REG MCQ (Testlet 1 & 2) section, about 75% of the questions were on Tax and 25% on BL. I was hoping BL would be less than 15%, but since it wasn’t, I spent my remaining time carefully checking how much BL appeared and focused intensely on the Tax questions. The Tax topics seemed well-balanced overall, and as expected, all the SIM questions were related to Tax.

The MCQs were manageable (except for BL, of course), but the SIMs were quite different from the ones in Becker, which threw me off a bit. Knowing the concepts was enough to solve them, but expecting Becker-style problems was a mistake.

Since Tax is closely related to real life, I actually enjoyed studying it.

The results are coming out in about three weeks. Hopefully, I’ll be able to write a follow-up post about passing and share my overall study reflections then.

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