Hi All:
I'm a complete rookie to this website, so please be easy on me. In the past three days I have started studing for the CPA exam and the FAR section. I've exhausted myself with the threads on here, trying to soak up any any all information I can find that may be useful. This is a truly awesome place for people going through this extremely stressful time. I do have a question, or two, on what may seem to be stupid things (as I said, I'm a rookie to all of this):
1. Becker Homework: first of all, the lectures do not do well in actually preparing me to do the homework. Reading from a book, underlining and highlighting, that doesn't help me fully grasp the concepts. So the homework, at times, makes me feel like a complete idiot. How do most people do this? I've been trying to do the homework without opening my book, but that leads to an average of around 70-75% correct problems. I've found that actually taking time to review the critical details in the book while I do the homework is key, but even then I don't score very well. I'm on F2 right now, by the way.
If you guys could offer your insight to this, I'd be indebted. Do most people do homework closed book, or do you actually use your resources? If I did this all closed book I'd be afraid think what kind of scores I would be getting.
Thanks in advance,
KC