Pensions, how heavily are they actually tested on the cpa exam

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Today was my test, I had just 2 MCQs but last week my friend had a Simulation from same so can’t say.

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God I hate them so much and can’t get them quite down pat. Hopefully I get the nice exam without the sim.

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I had a basic sims on it.

I had mcqs on it. That was the one section I completely skipped over while studying but luckily I passed

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