Mastering CPA Exam Simulation Scores: 4 Helpful Tips
Tip 1: “We shape our tools and then our tools shape us.” – Marshall McLuhan
To solve the simulation questions, AICPA provides a range of tools to solve the questions quickly on exam day. The tools mentioned include –
- Calculators
- Excel spreadsheets
- Authoritative literature
- Spell check
- Exhibits & highlights
Make sure that your CPA training package includes a real-time mock exam experience to get you a practical walkthrough to use the tools efficiently and get the maximum help to solve the CPA exam.
Tip 2: “Take care of the minutes and the hours will take care of themselves.” – Lord Chesterfield
Make sure you plan your minutes. Count it as a D-day haul for the CPA exam and distribute the 4 hours
- 90 minutes – to speed through the MCQ
- 150 minutes – to finish the simulations
It is a notion that Certified Public Accountants are always on time. Take it as CPA practice in the making of competent accountants.
Tip 3: “Repetition makes perfect.” DeAndre Hopkins
Having said that, repetition resolves the difficulty for CPA’s task-based simulations-solves, one needs to know the right way to do it. Let’s say ‘Repeating + improvements’ make it perfect. Mark your mistakes, learn them, and make sure you are not repeating them right at the next round of revision.
Tip 4: "The more you sweat in training, the less you bleed in battle." – Richard Marcinko
Put in the effort during your preparation. The harder you work now, the more confident and prepared you'll be on exam day.
Also, read 10 Tips to Ace Your CPA Exam Simulation Scores
