brouhaha in accountancy

today until thursday i will take my PAPCE. this would be the last comprehensive exam that i will take before i take the board exams. and boy was the tax a disaster.

i have finished taking the subject a year ago and i refused to study comprehensively for it before the exams because i wanted to gauge how much i have learned and how much were retained in me. so now that the tax test is finally over there could only be two arguments with the result i am going to have:

1. i have forgotten almost all of the provisions of the national internal revenue code.
2. i have not learned the subject well.

it was like forgetting to multiply two by two! i was at the top of my tax subject when i was taking it. and now where do i stand? nevermind.

the results of the october cpa board exams was released this morning, and boy are we mourning. the result was horrendous and i have not felt this low before.

yeah yeah, i was not a part of the corps of examinees of san beda, but my classmates were. and when someone you know was so dedicated in the accounting education fails the board, a gleam of doubt hovers in your head. especially when you know that that flunker is better in accounting than you do.

and besides, those whom we expected to pass the boards did otherwise! worst, a lot was expected from our batch. we were tagged as the century's strongest batch. we were provided with great professors, all of whom are aacounting gurus and are cpa board reviewers, not to mention owners the review centers themselves.

so where in the hell did the examinees fail? oh gees, tell me im not gonna have the same fate...