The components of the Auditing and Attestation (AUD), Financial Accounting and Reporting (FAR) and

  Regulation (REG) sections will be:

  Three Multiple-Choice Question (MCQ) testlets, and

  One testlet containing six or seven short Task-Based Simulations (TBS)

  The components of the Business Environment and Concepts (BEC) section will be:

  Three Multiple-Choice Question (MCQ) testlets, and

  Three written communication tasks on BEC topics

  For more information, read the article in the Spring 2010 issue of The Uniform CPA Examination Alert at http://www.aicpa.org