CPA Exam: How to Survive Score Release
What’s the worst part of the CPA exam? Is it the hours of studying? Missing fun events? Is it the feeling that your time isn’t your own? Is it the expensive exam fees and the pricey review courses?
No. None of these are the worst parts of the CPA exam. The worst part is:
Score release.
Score release!!!
The sleepless nights as you wait for NASBA to decide your fate. The dreams that you passed or failed. Checking one million times to see if scores are up, even though you know they aren’t. The fake smile that you plaster on your face as your friends and coworkers ask you if you passed and you say for the one-hundredth time:
“I don’t know.”
Thinking about those memories makes me shudder. I almost didn’t write this article because I didn’t want to remember the hell that is score release. It was torture. For those of you going through this, you have my sympathy and pity. You are going through an ordeal that only CPAs and CPA candidates can understand. I hope to give some helpful hints to help you survive this arduous process.
F**k your feelings.
After you take the exam, you will feel like you failed. That’s a horrible feeling, but you need to let that go. After you leave Prometric…
