A self-developed code based on the BEM for the determination of the backscattered sound pressure level in the far field was extended so that additional FEM shell elements and thus elastic material properties can be considered. For this purpose, a separate FEM equation system is built up and directly integrated into the system of the BEM via corresponding transformation matrices. A common variant for solving the FEM-specific parts is to use a solver based on eigenvalue calculations, which provides the corresponding eigenfrequencies and eigenvectors of the uncoupled FEM equation system for a given upper cutoff frequency. It can be observed that only a part of the determined modes has a considerable sound radiation efficiency and is therefore relevant for the result. An algorithm determines these modes by a fast post-processing routine considering a given percentage, reduces the size of the eigenvalue equation system accordingly, and thus shortens the solution time. Furthermore, it was investigated whether the condition of the entire system of equations is improved by removing the irrelevant modes when using iterative solution methods and whether the number of iterations can thus be reduced. The paper describes the basics of FEM coupling with BEM, presents the reduction algorithm used and shows the results obtained for corresponding test structures depending on the reduction percentage used.