u/Pretend-Penalty-796

I'm aware they incredibly different from each other, but I just took the PA after being so confident in my studies for the past month and I didn't pass it. I thought I had a good handle on the material. I see many people saying not to use the PA to study for the OA, but how would I study for the OA in this case if my PA score was approaching competence?

Just feeling a little discouraged, any tips would be helpful. Thanks!

I’m a senior (graduating in the fall of 2026) and whenever people ask me why accounting, or where do I plan to take my career I genuinely don’t know what to say. My mom is an accountant, she has a pretty good life, it put food on the table for us as kids. I think I was drawn to the stability of it, (if there still is any left), and the fact that I like working with numbers and math. I was never one to be super passionate about a career like how others do. I don’t have a ground breaking story as to why I went into this career. I did VITA but that’s it, I don’t have internship experience and it was hard for me to get one. So I truly don’t know what I want to do when I graduate, not that that’s a problem. I’m open to anything, but isn’t that bad?

Edit: I appreciate all of your responses guys thank you. I think it’s because I see so many of my other peers know exactly what they want, it makes me feel a little behind

I’ll go first, I was trying to learn how to make beats back in like 2017/2018 and his videos were very entertaining to watch. I was a senior in high school when I really started to get into his music (2018). Accepted into college, and I remember blasting GENIE non stop. Remember when there was a phase where people would joke about him never smiling?

I’ve been going through these module quizzes and unit tests, along with Hannah’s notes. I made flashcards out of those. But this doesn’t seem too bad as everyone makes it out to be, is this just some false confidence that I have? I haven’t taken the PA yet so I’m not really sure where I stand but this stuff seems relatively simple.

This isn’t me saying everyone’s hard experience wasn’t worth anything — im not bragging, I failed IA2 3x before passing. Not a perfect student by any means. I’m just genuinely wondering if just have a false sense of confidence doing this. The module quizzes and unit tests are almost too easy which is why I am worried about the OA