Key Ingredient #5

So the Rosetta Stones strategy

This is the most effective way of mastering the topics that you struggle with the most

So everyone talks about their weak areas when it comes to the CPA exams, and

everyone will have certain topics or concepts that for whatever reason, they

are the hardest ones for you personally. So this Rosetta Stones strategy, it is a highly effective way of when you come

across something like that, it's a way of translating it into your own language, so

to speak. And then you have a copy of it so that you can use primarily in your

Final 48 strategy. So in a nutshell, what this strategy consists of is when you keep coming across

problems on the same topic and you've seen something two or three times, and for

whatever reason, you keep forgetting it, you keep missing questions on it. That is where you stop

You take the time to literally explain to yourself out loud. You keep explaining the explanation back to yourself out loud until it clicks and you

get it. And it's at that point you take your explanation that you came up with that

makes sense to you and you write it down in your own words on flashcards

So usually I recommend that you would use a digital flashcard maker for this process

so that it syncs automatically to the app on your phone. Quizlet is what we usually recommend to people

But these flashcards that you've created on your own personal weak areas, but you've

taken the time to explain the concept to yourself until you get it in your own words

and you've captured it in your own words on these flashcards. These are gold to you, especially once you get to the Final 48

That's a strategy we discuss in a different video. And these are a thousand times more effective than just reviewing the flashcards that

came with your review course, you know, that were written by an accounting professor

specifically because they are your own personal weak areas and you have captured a way

of understanding it in your own words that you can then use during your final review

Now, the caveat or the distinction here is you don't want to be doing this process as

you go through a new lesson on the first time, because a lot of it will seem new to

you. It will seem like there's 50 new vocabulary words or concepts that you need to

know and make flashcards for. That would cause you an inordinate amount of time to basically rewrite the textbook in

flashcard format. So you don't want to do that either. You want to wait until you've seen something about two to four times and you

continually miss it or, you know, it's just hard for you to remember for some reason

So in our free strategic CPA study workshop, we will walk you through how to

classify information. There is a specific time when you want to make these type of flashcards

It's not when you go through a new lesson for the first time. So again, to see all those strategies explained in detail and how they all fit together

sign up for one of these free strategic CPA study workshops. They are webinars

They're only at specific times. So there should be a link in the description or a button below this video that you can

click on that will show you the upcoming times so that you can choose one that will

work for you. You will find these sessions incredibly valuable, incredibly helpful

And in one hour, we can change your entire outlook from seeing CPA exams as this

insurmountable, gigantic task into something that is very doable on a day to day

basis when you have a strategic study approach to follow