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Old 01-16-2012, 10:44 AM
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I'm in London, Ontario. I just passed this morning. If anyone wants my study materials (review notes, textbook, exercise book and flashcards), you're more than welcome to them. Send me a pm and they're yours. Sorry, I can't ship them. Pickup only.

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Congrats - can you comment on the difficulty of the test, the study materials you used, and how much time you spent studying?
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Thanks. I took an accounting class when I was in OAC (Grade 13 in Ontario). But, that was about 12 years ago. I hadn't opened any of the books until about 6 days ago. Since then I've gone through the practice problems on the iphone app over and over. Anything I didn't know, I looked up in the review notes. The textbook was completely unnecessary. About 20-ish questions were straight calculations that I knew from FM. I didn't bother memorizing any of the ratios. The exam questions were very similar to (and slightly easier than) the practice problems on the app.

In another post, you said you were averaging 70 on the iphone app - that's about what I was getting, too.
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That's good to hear! I'm going over the "Review Notes" book from s.m.a.r.t. You did all 600 questions on the app?
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I didn't get through all of them. I just did random practice problems by chapter until I felt that I understood it.
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