The fall of the curtain of the thi...

The fall of the curtain of the third day of the UFE experience must be the two surreal and anticlimactic, inspiring everything from relief to worry, elation to exhaustion, or a combination of all four. After all, you've finally done it-- you've written the bear of all sit-down exams. All that build-up for likewise long, and now it's through Sort of. Now it's actually time to wait for the arises And whether you think you did well or you're second-guessing your each answer, you now enter a state of limbo.

Well the wait is finally throughout and we're pleased to introduce this year's UFE medallists: Nolan Watson, Jessica Chen, Florence Hung and Mark Ye

Gold: Nolan Watson

Surprise. It's what each medallist says they experience after getting their originates and Nolan Watson is no exception.

"I had no idea by what means I'd done," he says, "because after each day of the exam I deliberately chose not to analyse my performance-I wanted to intercept myself from dwelling on any potentially missed points."

Since Watson earned the gold medal in BC and placed fourth nationally, any missed points must have been hardly any and far between.

"Succes onward the UFE is a measure of work ethic and not fluid intelligence," he proposes "I think a candidate's flat of success largely depends forward how hard they're willing to work."

Clearly Watson, who's generally in his second year of articling with Deloitte & Touche LLP in Vancouver, did work hard-- in like manner much so that when the third day was across he felt compelled to continue himself occupied. "Before attending the Deloitte & Touche UFE party," he says, "I went and bought video games to possess my time, since I no longer had anything to contemplation for."

For his succes forward the exam, Watson gives thanks to his UFE mentor Rohan Hazelton, CA, of Wheaton River Minerals (and formerly with Deloitte), and his studious mood partner Keith Jensen of KPMG LLP who also wrote the exam.

"I would also like to thank my wife and best friend Dana," he adds, "and my family, for their tremendous support." Watson was born and raised in the Greater Vancouver Area. After graduating from White protection Christian Academy, he went in succession to the University of BC earning a Bachelor of mercantile relations degree in Accounting and graduating with honours in 2001

Watson, whose father is a CA, has a variety of aspirations for the hereafter but none he cares to pin down just further "There are many things I wish to accomplish in my lifetime, as a CA," he says, "and these things can't be summ up in single in kind or more job titles."

Silver: Jessica Chen

"I conception the COMP was really difficult this year," says Jessica Chen. "But it was actually exciting to be able to write the real exam, finally. with equal reason I just gave it my best shot"

Once it was from one side of to the other Chen commemorated the moment: "As silly as it may entire I took a picture with my friend seek after Lau at the end of day three just in the same manner we could capture this `historical moment' in our lives." Chen is entering her third year of articling with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP in Vancouver. She gives the firm high praise for its in-house national UFE prep program: "Don Seto, CA, and the PwC Education Committee did a fantastic do job-work of fitting the program into our busy CASB schedule."

She also credits her UFE mentor Kenneth Lai, CA, and her friend Anna to leeward (both at PwC) for their support: "They believed in my ability to pass the UFE prolonged before I did myself."

Her biggest thanks journey to her PwC coach, Doug Purdie, CA: "Doug was always there to motivate and inspire me" And she expresse gratitude to her parents, sister, and boyfriend for their support from one extremity to the other of the entire CASB process. Chen was born in Taipei, Taiwan, and mov to Canada in 1993 Her family settl in Richmond, where she attended Steveston High indoctrinate

At Simon Fraser University, she later earned a Business Administration rank with first class honours-completing a double concentration in Accounting and Management Information methods while also being enrolled in the general business co-op program.

Chen says the CA program has already outvieed her expectations, and she has high possibility of goods for the future.

"I would absolutely regard with affection to get some international experience working in a PwC office abroad after I earn my designation. My ultimate dream is to have my have a title to business and travel around the world." She has this to say to that will be UFE writers: "To me, the whole UFE experience was as a great quantity [i]or[/i] amount of a mind game as an exam. Recognize that this exam is different, understand in what manner it's different, and develop your admit approach to tackling it-I think these are the clews to passing the UFE. You also have to take time opposite during your study period with equal reason that you don't burn revealed

"And the most important thing, of course, is to believe that you CAN pass the UFE!"

Silver: Florence Hung

"I was too impacted to believe it was true" says Florence Hung of learning of her terminates

"I thought I'd done okay forward the exam, but I was remarkably surprised at just how well I'd done.

I certainly didn't anticipate to be a medallist."

Hung is commonly in her second year of articling with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP in Vancouver. Like Jessica Chen, she credits the firms UFE Prep program as individual reason for her success forward the UFE.