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take-my-class · 2 years

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jungleuniversity · 4 years

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How I Improved My MCAT Score (509 -> 518)

Hi Everyone! I got back my new MCAT scores awhile ago, but I thought I’d write a post about how I achieved my score, with hope that it could potentially help another student. I know that while I was studying, a lot of the advice I saw on the internet was overwhelming and made me feel that my level of studying would always be inferior to what others were doing. The vast array of available courses, practice tests, and other services available certainly did not help either, as there is no reasonable way to complete every single resource that exists. In this post, I’ll go through a timeline of my basic study plan and explain which resources I used and why I think they are worth using.

Stage 1 - Kaplan 7 book set and other content resources

I had trouble coming up with a time frame for how long it should take to go through the Kaplan set, which is why I simply called this part the “first stage.” Many guides I have read online mention strictly separated “content review” and “practice exam” phases of studying. Personally, that would never have worked out for me because I would have gotten anxious every time I got a question wrong during the exam phase. Instead, I spent about 3-4 months simply reading and taking notes out of the books, and then doing a mixed exam and content review stage. I used each book in the following ways, especially the second time I studied:

Biochemistry - For the first half of the book I took detailed notes as if I were learning from an ordinary biochemistry textbook for a class. For the second half, I eased on the notes and started drawing out the different pathways. I think I wrote down the Electron Transport Chain pathway 10-15 times and the Citric acid cycle path about 50 times. I did not draw the shapes of compounds, but I won’t tell you not to do that either.

Biology - Same as the Biochem book. I did spend extra time on “high yield content” that's more difficult to memorize, such as actin/tropomyosin activity in muscle.

Physics - I cannot stress what I am about to say enough. The absolute most important things to know from this book are the units. If you are truly stuck on a physics (or often chemistry) question, there is a very good chance you can use dimensional analysis to force your way to the right answer in a relatively brief amount of time. If nothing else, PLEASE learn the units behind every concept.

Chemistry - Use the advice from physics, but I also took pretty heavy notes, especially in the first half, since there’s a lot of content that, despite being easier than biochemistry in my opinion, are foundational and will cause problems if you skip it.

Behavioral Sciences - This was the section that brought down my first attempt score. I found that the premed95 anki deck that’s in circulation was helpful, but it made me incredibly lazy in studying to the point where I would pretend to be productive, while just looking at slides. I was desperate not to repeat my mistakes, so I brute forced my way through the Kaplan book this time instead. I didn’t take notes the way I did for other subjects - instead I hand wrote every single bolded word and definition in a notebook, organized by chapters. This took about a week and I did not study any other subject during this time. I don’t know if I would recommend this method for Behavioral Sciences for everyone, but the truth is that after I did this, my practice section scores went from 124 to 128-130. One thing to keep in mind though, the last few sections of the Physics/Math book are absolutely critical to the Behavioral Sciences section as they are the only resource within the Kaplan set which explain the research methodologies for both Psychology and Sociology.

Organic Chemistry - I took sparse notes on this book. I think it's the least useful out of the 7 book set, and I often had to look to the internet and old organic chemistry class notes to clarify mechanisms and pathways. Nevertheless, make flashcards or write down reactions such as the Aldol condensation, which more likely than not will show up at some point.

CARS - Skip this book. In my opinion, there are better ways to study this section. Most importantly, use the CARS question packs from AAMC.

Stage 2 - CARS, Mixed Content Review and Practice Exams (2-3 weeks)

This is around when I started taking CARS much more seriously, so I would recommend starting earlier. I mainly focused on using the two AAMC question packs, although the KhanAcademy passages were also useful. The first question pack was definitely a bit more difficult and you might feel discouraged after going through half of it. However, I promise it does get better. Part of the change is that as you read explanations for why you get questions wrong, your skill will begin to improve. The other part is that the second half of the question pack, as well as most of the second question pack are more closely aligned with the difficulty level of the actual test.

This was also when I began taking NextStep full length exams. (Insert surprised Pikachu face) My first score was a 501. Definitely not expected at the time, but it was a necessary wakeup call to understand where my content gaps were.

After each exam I took from this point on, I would take the rest of the day off after taking the exam. Just relax, after taking a 7 hour exam, you deserve it tbh. The next day, go over the entire exam, question by question and take notes where you need to. I wrote very brief 1-line notes for questions I got right and understood, and more detailed notes for all incorrect questions as well as correct questions that I did not fully understand. This is important for two reasons: First, this allows you to know exactly where your content gaps are and understand how you can improve applying the concepts that you already know. Second, there’s only so many different things they can ask you on the MCAT. It might sound endless, but there are a finite number of concepts and you are bound to see very similar questions on future practice tests and also on the real MCAT. In my experience, writing down the explanation for the correct answers on missed questions ensured that I never get a similar question incorrectly in the future. Overall, next-step exams were alright, but their content felt incredibly low-yield. Now, studying low yield concepts is extremely important, but it's obviously detrimental if that's all you study.

For the next month, I would alternate between taking next-step and AAMC full lengths, with breaks in between to review my content gaps. My highest Nextstep exam was a 512, but I tended to score around 507-508. My aamc exams, in order, were 519, 517, and 515. The downward trend was concerning, but I was honestly happy since all of those scores were higher than my target at the time, 513. Also, I falsely began to think that NextStep exams were extremely deflated. (They are, but not nearly to the extent that you might think.)

Finally, the day before my first exam: I couldn’t sleep at all, and I went against common advice of not studying on this day. As for exam day, just trust yourself and the studying you have done. My main advice beyond what anyone else will tell you is to keep a close eye on the clock. Several people who tested with me lost up to 5 minutes on CARS because they forgot to take into account the time during their lunch break. Not every test center will have digital clocks, and the one I went to only had a tiny analog clock near the area they check you in. When I asked a proctor for the time, he just laughed. So make sure you look at the clock and remember the time when your break starts.

My score on the first exam turned out to be a 509. Not necessarily a bad score at all, but this score was much lower than what I was aiming for. It was disappointing, mainly due to the time I put into studying, but the more I thought about it, the more it made sense. My behavioral sciences section severely pulled my score down, and there were a few content areas that I truly was not prepared for. I felt bad about it for about a week, and afterwards started studying again.

Stage 3: Final Preparations

Initially, I found it relatively difficult to study during the semester. One of my friends recommended I use UWorld questions to effectively use my time. This resource definitely helped me out when I felt like I simply did not have enough time to finish studying. They provide you with 1500 or so questions, categorized by section and sub categorized by topic. You can choose how many questions or passages you want to do in one sitting, and if you want it timed or not. After you finish, they provide you with personalized statistics for the session, as well as explanations for each question, which are saved and can be viewed at any time. Alongside simply rereading the Kaplan books, this is the best way to reinforce content knowledge.

The final resource I used were the Altius exams. I purchased a pack of 5 on a whim because 1) I ran out of practice tests and 2) someone on reddit said these were severely under-appreciated. Well, that gamble paid off because I believe these exams are about as close as you can get to the AAMC full lengths, BUT they give you much more detailed explanations, and are just a little bit more difficult, so you actually end up feeling like the AAMC practice exams are a bit smoother and easier to pace yourself on. After purchasing, I had one month to take all five, as well as the then-recently-released AAMC FL #4. Altius exams were great, and honestly, my only “complaint” was that CARS felt a little bit too difficult to be as useful as it could be. I also studied Behavioral Sciences and Biochemistry the way I described in Part 1, since I felt like I underperformed on those sections.

When second exam day approached, I forced myself to get a full night of sleep this, and it absolutely paid off. I was noticeably more aware during this test than my previous attempt, and corrected myself before making a bunch of silly errors.

A month later, I found out I got a 518, which was higher than my original goal.

Tl;dr:

Studying for the mcat is expensive, and it can be hard to find advice on which resources are useful.

In my opinion, only: Altius exams are amazing. UWorld is a great resource for content gaps and reinforcement, especially when you have sharp time constraints. Kaplan books are awesome for content review, but it should be fine if you buy an older edition (I used 2015).

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steamishot · 3 years

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i officially started my accounting program with WGU on 9/1. i just completed my first class today. i could have completed it earlier, but i had some technical difficulties with the webcam my brother sent me and had to purchase a new one. the exams are proctored through examity, so basically someone from india instructs you to show them a 360 degree view of your desk area and then proctors you during the exam. i read of proctors stopping people if there are nosies or movements (even from pets and dog barks), so i was a bit nervous while taking the exam and couldn’t relax. i wanted to put my hand under the desk but was afraid it might have looked suspicious (not sure why), but i will be more relaxed for my next test.

the first quarter of my classes don’t seem too difficult, where it’s possible i can finish a class in a day or two if i tried hard. but the actual accounting courses don’t come until later and i believe those should be more challenging.

matt has had easy rotations for about a month now, and he just started on one month of hard rotations again. because we live in a small studio and have been spending almost every minute together for the last month, i felt relieved when he finally left for work today hahaha. medical relationships are a real extreme. either he’s working super hard and i never get to see him, or his rotations are insanely chill and there’s just too much time at home. i enjoy his presence at home, but i also very much value having independence to do what i want, when i want. when he’s at home, he wants to spend time with me but he’s very loosely structured (understandably because it’s his time to relax). it tests my patience every time he delays plans together (i.e. “let’s work out at 8pm” turns into working out at 10pm). we also don’t get any alone time in our studio apartment. though, he seems okay with being around me 24/7 lol. i’m the one who needs more alone time/independence time.

we went to boston for labor day weekend. i’ve been wanting to go because my reddit friend talks constantly about how much she loves it there (and how much she hates LA). i’ve also heard that boston had better hot pot than LA. well, boston was the first time either of us had missed a flight. for such a stupid reason too lol. we had already passed through TSA and were lounging at the centurion lounge, enjoying breakfast, mimosas and coffee. our flight was to depart at 10am and we casually were like “alright let’s leave the lounge at 9:40am”, thinking the gate was just a couple min walk away. lo and behold, the walk took 8 full minutes (and we started running after realizing the gate was not just right there). we got there at 9:47 and the gate had closed. anyway, they put us on the next flight at 4pm and we really lounged that day. stayed at the minute suites for an hour and then went back to the centurion for another 3 hours - constantly ate, got a beer, and drank coffee while studying. it was also really cold in there.

boston was much smaller than i thought, and not very diverse at all (well, coming from NYC). i thought it was very quiet, proper, and white. the most poppin area we went to was chinatown. a lot of history overall as well. they have a number of the oldest things in america: oldest park, oldest running hotel, oldest running restaurant, oldest running subway, etc. we also went on a duck boat tour that went over some historical landmarks from the american revolution. it made me think about how detached we are to america’s history living on the west coast. and also again chuckled at ronny chieng’s joke about east coast state mottos now that i’ve visited new england for the first time and understand it a bit more.

i was a bit annoyed with matt during this trip, though i can’t really blame him - everything kind of ties in with residency and OCD. he’s gained a bit of weight, about 20lbs since he first started residency, and he’s just overall not very energetic or fit anymore. being fat sucks. he’s also getting more acid reflux due to the fat content in his body, which propels him to eat more, and it’s just this vicious cycle. it also doesn’t help that i tend to eat small and frequent meals, which means he’ll eat by association. anyway, he used to have a lot of energy pre-residency when we traveled in the past, and now it’s like a struggle to do anything :(.

even when his brother was here visiting for a week and he pushed himself to go out, he commented that it was more fun to watch people on youtube go out and do stuff/eat rather than doing the experiences himself. instead of experiences, he’s more interested in capitalizing on deals/offers and getting the best bang for our buck. our next trip will be europe in november. for that, he seems a lot more excited about using points to book flights/hotels (and stacking certain promotions) than the actual trip. there was a deal with iberia, possibly a glitch because we were unable to get it after numerous failed attempts, where we could have flown to madrid business class for under $300 worth of points per person. europe trip: planning in process.

i’m generally cool with his obsession over deals/offers but it greatly annoys me when it interferes with the quality of our trip. for example, he really wanted to stay at a hilton hotel one night because he had an offer for some cash back. so we did. however, what ended up happening was the hilton hotel was located in an underdeveloped part of town, and far from the subway stations. we had to spend money to lyft back and forth from this area to the main part of town, which ended up costing us a lot more time and money than just staying at a hotel without any cash back.

anyway, i’m trying to see the big picture and not be petty or be a spoiled brat (constantly learning how to do this) and just be happy that we at least got to spend time together and travel to a place i’ve been wanting to go to for a while. emotions and my pettiness aside (i realize i can be a bit of a karen when things don’t go my way), we got to do great things: hang out at a fancy lounge, eat hot pot twice (LA is still better to me), bike to MIT and porter square, visit harvard, run through the oldest park in america, stay in the liberty (prison turned hotel), take the T, stay in citizenM, take a bath/do face masks, and ok the hilton hotel was also nice. we also capitalized on 5 uber eat deals that had an offer of $25 off $25. for one of our orders, i basically got a patanogia beanie and some donuts delivered for $5.

also, just to note down: hurricane ida was quite destructive to the NYC/NJ area. i’ve never seen it rain so hard, like anywhere ever. the floods in the subway system, people’s cars and homes were devastating to see. at the same time, i was in the comfort of my high rise for two days straight and didn’t have to leave the building at all lol.

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tea-letters · 7 years

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The MCAT (Medical College Admission Test) is definitely pretty daunting when you first sit down to start preparing for it. For those of us here in the US/Canada, it’s probably the biggest, hardest standardized test you’ve ever had to take in your life so far. I thought I’d try to make the whole process just a little less painful! :)

Helpful Links:

AAMC (buy official practice material, sign up for test dates, & see your score)

Reddit r/MCAT (wonderful source of resources/info, help, & motivation)

Khan Academy

Khan Academy Notes/Transcriptions (collective effort by reddit)

Official MCAT Topic Outline (PDF)

Helpful Classes to Take (optional but recommended):

General Chemistry // Biology // Physics

General Psychology // Sociology

Organic Chemistry

Biochemistry

MCAT Books (optional)

Kaplan: widely regarded as one of the best. If you buy the 7-book set, you’ll get 3 free FLs (full-lengths).

ExamKrackers (EK): also widely regarded as one of the best. More user-friendly than Kaplan. Psych book is not comprehensive enough.

The Princeton Review (TPR): unnecessarily detailed in the science sections but overall good. TPR psych is supposedly very good.

If you’re pressed for money, I believe there is a full EK set scanned online somewhere (try asking Reddit). Also, honestly Khan Academy is just as good as the MCAT books in terms of content review.

Free FLs

Next Step FL1 (NS1)

Next Step Half-Length

Kaplan Half-Length

Altius Half-Length

The Princeton Review FL

General Tips Everyone Kinda Agrees On:

OFFICIAL AAMC PRACTICE MATERIAL ARE NOT OPTIONAL. At the very least, buy the Section Bank and the AAMC FLs. There is no practice out there that will predict your score as well as the AAMC FLs.

USE KHAN ACADEMY FOR P/S SECTION. If you have time, use the 300pg Psych document! Otherwise, use the 100pg doc.

KNOW YOUR AMINO ACIDS. That includes structure, 3-letter abbreviations, AND 1-letter abbreviations. Know what class they are (hydrophobic/philic, acidic/basic).

3rd Party FLs (e.g. Kaplan, Next Step) should only be used to practice sitting for 7 hours and to identify content gaps. Do not use them to gauge your score. 3rd party FLs tend to deflate your score.

It’s best to get a good score in one try. If you don’t feel ready, either reschedule your test or void it. Schools will only see scored exams.

^That being said, a “bad” score isn’t the end of the world. Take a break, pull yourself together, identify what you could do better, and slay the MCAT on your retake.

Pace yourself. Most people do ~3 months of study with scheduled break days, but adjust to your own pace!

MCAT courses are $$$ and only useful for certain people. If you are someone who can discipline yourself and do what you need to do, you don’t need to take a course.

Below 500 typically means an issue in content review.

Please don’t retake 514+ scores. Not only are they amazing scores, but if you retake and (god forbid) drop, it will reflect poorly on your decision-making.

You don’t need a 515+ to get into med school. It really depends on what tier of school you’re applying to, what speciality you want to pursue in the future, etc. If you’re not aiming for a Top 20 or a derm residency match, you don’t need a 95+ percentile score.

My Personal Tips:

A little about me: my score release was on 9/19/17 and I got a 518 (97th percentile) with breakdown: 129/130/130/129.

Don’t be afraid to postpone your test. I rescheduled my test twice (3/31 to 6/16 to 8/18) because I knew I wasn’t ready.

Try not to study during the semester. It’s already hard enough managing your everyday classes and any extracurriculars you have.

Practice >>> Content Review. Do a quick general content review before starting practice. Do any practice you can get your hands on. Then REVIEW THEM. Reviewing should take you basically the whole day. Really understand every aspect of the problem. Even if you got it right, make sure you’re getting it right for the right reasons and not cuz of luck. Look up anything that you’re even a little doubtful about.

If you’re going straight-through (applying summer after junior year), try to take your test the summer after sophomore year just in case you have to retake. Similar advice for gap year students (like me), try to leave enough time for a retake if necessary.

I recommend foam earplugs during the test. You’ll have to bring them to the testing center in a sealed package and open it in front of the proctors.

Don’t be afraid to use your scrap paper. In the 10 minute tutorial at the beginning of the exam, I did a massive brain dump of every equation I could think of.

C/P Specific Advice: The MCAT won’t ask you for a ton of math. Know your most important chemical structures (e.g. amine vs. amide, ester vs. ether). Know your basic formulas, especially for optics!! Know how to identify the nucleophile/electrophile in an orgo reaction.

CARS Specific Advice: This is the hardest section to improve on. If you’re scoring low, do a lot of practice and try to read more (newspapers, articles, books) until you plateau. Don’t bring in any outside info. The answer is almost always hidden in the passage in plain sight.

B/B Specific Advice: AMINO ACIDS. Also know basic research notations (e.g. A123K = alanine at 123 position of sequence changed to lysine). Also ENZYME KINETICS.

P/S Specific Advice: Khan Academy. Seriously. This is also the easiest section to improve on.

Last note: remember anything on the topic list is technically fair game.

Good luck! Hope this helped!!

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charlesjening · 5 years

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Let’s Talk About How CPA Canada Totally F*cked Up Last Week’s CFE

Many years ago in another lifetime, I dated this total loser. Now, I know what you’re thinking: “Adrienne, what the hell do your dubious dating choices have to do with accounting?” Bear with me, we’ll get there.

So, this loser. He was an adorable if grungy scamp with tattoos dotted across his body like scribbles on my middle school notebook covers and dirty blonde hair that managed to be both greasy and perfectly-coiffed at all times. Young me, not yet schooled in the fine art of red flags that subsequent years of dating would teach me, was weak to his charms despite the fact that he brought little to the table other than a killer smile and the occasional bottle of Remy, the latter of which impressed young me since I was too young then to buy my own and too lazy to stand outside of the liquor store waiting for some 30-year-old dorky sap to buy me one.

As I’m sure you can imagine by this point in the story, this guy came with more issues than National Geographic, not least of which being his attraction to substances — both licit and not. This generally wasn’t a problem as he was clever enough to weasel out of most predicaments his unfortunate choices got him into, and I clever enough to avoid him when he was on a bender. But every now and then, he’d find himself face-to-face with some cop who was sick of having to drag his drunk ass in every other week.

In one whiskey-and-who-knows-what-else-fueled incident I can recall, he called me from the drunk tank to inform me that A) I was a bitch for ditching him earlier in the evening, and B) he was in jail, possibly facing an actual charge for fighting or stealing or who the hell can remember, it doesn’t matter now. Given that I lacked both the bail money to get him out and the will to do a favor for someone who just called me a bitch, I let him sit there. A few short hours later, he was out. The time from arrest to his release couldn’t have been more than maybe three or four hours.

So why did I just tell this story? To put into perspective the fact that CPA Canada just treated the country’s future CPAs worse than police treated my loser ex-boyfriend who definitely deserved to be locked up for being an absolute waste of carbon.

Let’s get caught up on this, likely the worst professional examination debacle I think we’ve ever covered in our 10 years here on Going Concern. Because we’re a mostly American-based rag, I feel obligated to explain what the CFE (Common Final Examination) is and how it’s administered, if briefly. Unlike here in the good ole U. S. of A. where future CPAs can schedule exams with relative flexibility, Canadian accountants have to endure a three-day exam that is usually administered just once a year, though sometimes like next year they get lucky and have two chances. This year, the CFE started on Sept. 11 and, according to many reports, was already off to a bad start. But by Sept. 12, the shit had totally hit the fan.

9:15 in Vancouver on day 2 CFE. No one can load secure exam. from r/Accounting

On Monday, a tipster caught us up on the drama which we missed because A) we regrettably forget about our friends up north sometimes, and B) at least for me, I was too busy with Borderlands 3 to waste my time trolling r/accounting for something to write about last weekend and totally missed the complaining.

Hi there,

I am reporting on CPA Canada’s negligence in carrying out this year’s Common Final Examination (“CFE”) last week. This is a very important 3-day examination that prospective accountants must pass to obtain the professional licence to practice accounting in Canada.

There was a massive breach of integrity of the exam because of CPA Canada’s negligence to carry out their job properly. This resulted in many students (i.e. Edmonton location) where they were forced to sit inside the examination centre for 4 hours before the exam started. In other words, when the exam was supposed to start at 9AM, they started at 1PM. They were starved and asked to stay inside the examination centre.

Jesus, even my loser ex-boyfriend got a moldy bologna sandwich in the holding tank.

CPA Canada’s failure to administer the exam and treat candidates with the minimum of dignity while they waited to take what is quite possibly the most important test of their lives has been picked up by all sorts of media, including the Financial Post.

FP writes:

Another online poster, who spoke to the Financial Post on the condition that he would not be identified, described seeing people in Edmonton in emotional and physical distress on the second day of the exam, which was delayed for five hours, and which ultimately proceeded without access to a crucial digital handbook.

“Everyone was tired, exhausted and seemed in no shape to write” by the time the exam started, the poster said on Reddit, adding that a series of delays left the candidates in the examination room for about 12 hours and facing huge lineups for access to limited food and water.

“We study our butts off and stress for 8 weeks only to experience this?” the exam-writer wrote.

A statement we received from an anonymous collective consisting of Canadian Big 4 employees operating under the name Wayne Gretzky (LOL) details the CFE failures, disappointments, and plans to hold CPA Canada responsible. It also explains the situation far better than I can with far fewer tangents about greasy ex-boyfriends, so let’s check it out:

After a poorly administered examination took place last week, Chartered Professional Accountant (“CPA”) candidates across Canada are left to question the integrity and competency of their governing bodies. More than eight thousand CPA students wrote the annual Common Final Examination (“CFE”) from September 11, 2019 to September 13, 2019. The CFE is a three-day examination which requires students who have completed certain post-graduate programs to write four to five hours of simulated business cases each day, testing their competencies to be licensed as a CPA. The CFE is known to be one of the most challenging examinations to write—arguably on par with other professional examinations such as the bar exam for lawyers or qualification exam for doctors—with the majority of candidates sacrificing weeks of time off from work in order to prepare and perform at their best.

What students could not prepare for, however, was the myriad of unexpected technical and administrative issues during this year’s examination. These issues severely disrupted their ability to perform and compromised the validity of examination results. This is the first year that new examination software, called Surpass, was rolled out, and it appears that CPA Canada—the organization which governs the profession and administers the examination—had not adequately prepared themselves for the issues that would come along with this rollout.

This led a number of test centres across the country to delay the examination for up to five hours with limited access to food, drinks, and washrooms. It was likened to being held hostage, and those students ended up writing from 2PM to 7PM when they should have been writing from 9AM to 2PM. One student writes, “I came in that morning ready, […] but the fatigue from sitting and waiting for hours plus unnecessary stress resulted in what I believe to be a clear fail. I’m a good student, I studied like my life depended on it. In a normal exam condition, I’d have passed without any issue.”

In addition, some students were handicapped by being forced to write responses by hand as opposed to typing, with no access to reference material on their computers during the “open-book” examination. The examination was supposed to be written through the Surpass software, which saved typed responses and allowed students to view certain reference material, while locking down their computers from opening other applications. The software was ultimately used by only a fraction of students, and even so, these students faced slow response times and periodic glitches. There are also students falling in the last category of being told to write on Microsoft Word and access the internet for reference material, because the software did not work for the entire centre. To this point, one student wonders, “The test was going to be written at one point with three different groups having various resources […] How can you mark a test three different ways and make that fair?”

Not only are there issues in the fairness of marking, but students are convinced that examination results were also compromised due to the opportunities that opened up for cheating. A student from the West coast wrote, “Our start time was after when Eastern Canada [sic] would have finished their exam and there was no measure taken to ensure that there was no exam information leakage across the country.”

Indeed, some students from the Eastern time zones posted details about specific questions on social media despite having accepted a confidentiality agreement prior to the examination, and their posts benefitted users in the West who had unsupervised access to the internet during the delays.

The inappropriate handling of the situation by CPA Canada only made matters worse. Proctors appeared to not have been trained or communicated with properly because they made last-minute decisions and provided inconsistent instructions. One student recalls that “the staff in the room were very disorganized and clearly had no clue what to do.” To add on, another student expresses, “I’m mostly upset with the time it took to resolve the issues, and the lack of communication provided to the candidates.”

Social media sites such as Reddit were flooded with comments after each day, from students sharing their “disappointing”, “horrifying”, and “disastrous” experiences while expressing their thoughts surrounding the “lack of professionalism” by CPA Canada. The issues mentioned in this article make up only a small number of many more outlined by the accounts of hundreds of students. Even individuals who did not write the examination had something to say about the series of events: “As a mentor to a student, and a current CPA profession member, the way the CFE was handled and carried out this year was blatantly unacceptable. I’m ashamed of my profession for the way this was carried out. There is no excuse for this.”

The Surpass software mentioned in the statement was first used for last year’s exams and is supposed to offer “enhanced functionality and flexibility for examination writers and administrators.” It’s unclear at this point what part if any Surpass played in this debacle. That said, I’ve got a PDF of hundreds of candidate comments in front of me with countless complaints about the software, leading a reasonable person to assume it had a lot to do with last week’s drama. Since this is already running long and I know you guys, like me, have the attention span of a gnat, I’ll only share a choice few.

Surpass has been a nightmare. I wasn’t even able to upload my exam today. Day 1 they kept us for an extra hour after the exam due to technical difficulties with the software. We were advised not to use the cut function because it would freeze the software. The whole rollout of Surpass seems very poorly planned and basically exactly what they are teaching us not to do, as CPAs. I certainly expected better, considering the amount of money I paid to write the CFE.

And:

Surpass froze on me roughly 3 hours into the exam. A proctor took my computer and spent 30 minutes working on it without telling me what he was doing. I saw him with a back-up laptop and a USB key, so I assumed he was transferring my work, but when I asked him about it, he told me that the work I did was saved on the USB, and that I would have to finish the exam by hand.

And:

Please note that this is not the first time that there have been issues with the new software. I wrote my elective exam in December, 2018 and experienced the same issues (actually worse, because my computer crashed multiple times and I lost 20-30 minutes).

And my favorite comment of all:

As I said, the thing goes on for comment after comment. We’d be here all day and probably piss off our benevolent overlords at Accountingfly for all the server space we’d have to buy just to host every single complaint if I posted every single one. Let’s just say Surpass isn’t looking good at this point.

Like damn. As some of y’all know, I’m a day one Fallout 76 player and even Bethesda isn’t this bad when it comes to glitches, good Lord.

Oh hey, Mr Glitched Ghoul Guy

Of course CPA Canada was forced to make a statement, the entirety of which we’re including below because why not, this thing is already long as hell.

During the administration of the three-day Common Final Exam (CFE) there were technical delays resulting in a challenging exam writing experience for many students. We extend our sincere apologies to everyone who was affected as we know how much work goes into preparing and writing this important examination and how stressful it has been for our students.

In response to issues caused by technical problems with the CFE, CPA Canada is retaining a third-party expert to conduct an independent, comprehensive review. The mandate includes evaluating the integrity and reliability of the September 2019 examination process.

To inform our review, we are actively gathering information from students, proctors, and others to understand what happened and how it impacted the exam-writing experience. We are committed to maintaining the integrity of the profession and the Common Final Examination.

An independent board of examiners oversees the CFE evaluation process. Over many years, they have developed a robust system for taking into account extenuating circumstances that affect exam-writers. Given what occurred during this year’s exam, this CFE evaluation process will be supplemented by the third-party review.

We will proceed as quickly as possible, but our main priority is to provide the time necessary for a fair, accurate and equitable outcome.

At the same time, we are also immediately reviewing the technical issues that arose across the country and are working with our service providers to do everything possible to avoid a future reoccurrence.

We recognize what a difficult time this has been for many and we want to reassure exam-writers we have the people and processes in place to resolve the situation as quickly and effectively as possible.

Yeah, tell that to the poor bastards holed up in a gymnasium for hours on end last week.

This disaster comes just after CPA Canada released a likely multimillion-dollar advertising campaign on “The New Face” of Canada’s CPAs, making for an awkward discussion about CPA Canada’s priorities when they’re burning the future new faces this hard.

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