Hi QQ for anyone who can help. For the Cpa exam, what is the writing section on BEC like? Becker doesn’t even seem to mention it on their lectures which is odd. I’m taking the exam in a month, just want to have an understanding of what its like, thanks!

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They mention it in the practice problems, they lay out a template to answer the prompts

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it's actually not graded by humans so throwing in buzz words alone gets you some points, I wouldn't stress about essay and focus more on mcq. I don't think I prepped for the essay at all

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I know I didn't. I was like here goes nothing! Did well enough that I passed.

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I’d say as long as your response is grammatically correct, includes transitions and includes wording from the question you’ll do fine. I wasn’t too confident on the material for the questions I got and I passed

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Becker has them in simulations.

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There is a lot of great content on youtube that helped me. They teach the concepts like in school , what components of the essay are needed, how to layout the answer, how to ID and leverage key words from the prompts etc.

I can say from personal experience I was able to BS my way through a writing example in BEC and passed (did better in writing than MCQ) I literally had no idea what the topic was being asked, but I hit all the points and added the right keywords and boom!
Good luck!

Thanks all!

Becker has them in the sims and I highly recommend practicing them and looking at videos. People told me it was easy and not to worry at all and I friggin failed because there’s a very certain way you need to answer the written responses. It’s easy yes but not if you don’t know the specific format.

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