Sorry for this late update, I was changing webhosts and so decided not to make another post until the dns had propogated (don’t worry if you don’t know what that means).

I got 13 in my Acctg 301 pretest out of 30. I first couldn’t believe it coz I didn’t guess a single thing on the test, when I was confused it was only between 2 choices and it happend in 4-5 questions. 21 and above is pass so I guess I will be taking this test again. No worries as I still have to complete 2 pre-requisites before I can take my first upper division accounting class.

Since friday, this thing has been making me crazy and at the same time I feel like something went terribly wrong. I was done within one hour and knew I would get more than 21 without any problems but I was soooooo wrong.

Let me tell you little about the pretest. The last time it was revised was in 2004. It had a question on Dividends. I have no idea how one can relate adjusting entries and dividends together. On the pretest website they explicitly say to review the 3rd chapter of any Intermediate Financial Accounting book and you will be good to go. Please tell what book out there talks about Dividends in the 3rd Chapter?

From SFSU Acct 301 Pre-test information page:

“Students may prepare for the pretest by studying any introductory financial accounting textbook which includes material on the double entry bookkeeping system (i.e., debits and credits). Most introductory financial accounting textbooks cover this material. A more efficient method of preparation is studying the review chapter, usually chapter three, of any intermediate financial accounting textbook.”

That’s not all, this Dividend question is a trick question. The answer is NONE or None of the above and I got it wrong. There was this other question out of the blue that had to do with some principle, asnwer to that was Recognition and I picked Matching because 3rd chapter in any accounting book deals with only matching concept.

I have sent them an email and I will also go talk to someone in the Business Department and find out if it’s just me or this test is designed to make sure no one ever gets to enroll in an accounting class.

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