Why You Can Skip Most CPA Video Lectures

So, when you start with the video lecture, let's say it's a half hour video lecture

by the time you zone out a few times or re-watch a few key parts, by the time you've watched the

whole thing and you feel like you understood it pretty well, it's very easy for that half

hour video lecture to have turned into an hour, if not an hour and a half, maybe even two hours

Okay, so you've spent one to two hours just watching the video. And then you go to the

practice questions, which again, is what matters, because the context is different

The textbook or video lecture context is much different than how the questions appear and how

you have to answer them. So you spend an hour or two watching the video and maybe reading the text

and you get to the practice questions and you realize that you're still not really sure how

to answer the questions. So even though you invested the time to watch the video and read

the chapter, you still have to go through the process of piecing together the practice questions

and figuring out how they work and how the solutions work, what the steps are based on

the question type. You still have to go through that process anyways. Now, I will say that learning

how to dissect and reverse engineer questions from the beginning is a skill, but you can get

good at this pretty quickly. And once you do that, for most lessons, you'll find that you don't need

to go back to the video lecture or chapter at all. You will be able to learn what you need to know

and how to answer the question types just by reverse engineering and dissecting the practice

questions for that topic. And the same thing with the simulations. Now, even for the most difficult

topics, if you've gone through several practice questions and it's still not making sense at all

then if you go back and watch the video lecture, or usually you can just find the specific pieces

you need in the text, it is much faster and you already have context about what you're trying to

learn from that video or what you're trying to find in the textbook. So for the dozens and dozens

of topics that are covered on each of the CPA exams, if you are able to avoid watching the video

lecture and reading the chapter for half or more of those topics, you've saved yourself a ton of time

But not only that, that's not the biggest advantage. The biggest advantage is that you are

directly learning and improving your understanding of the practice problem and practice simulation

context. So question context or exam day context. The other problem with watching video lectures

and reading the textbook first is that, like I said, it could take you two hours to do all that

And so you're mentally beat down by the time you get to the most important part, which is the

practice questions and the practice simulations. And the other problem is, like I mentioned

watching a video, it's easy to pat yourself on the back and think, okay, I'm studying, you know

I'm watching this video. But you and I both know that if you're lucky, maybe 10% of that information

gets in your brain from just watching a video. Whereas working through practice questions and

re-performing solutions and making sense of question explanations, that's a very active

process that, you know, you're forced to write things down, perform calculations. It's just an

active process that forces that new information into your brain, where when you're just sitting

there passively looking at a screen, probably half the time thinking about what you're going to do

this weekend, it's just a huge waste of time for the most part. So you can save yourself a ton of

time and energy and frustration by jumping straight into the practice questions for a topic

So the reality is there are a bunch of highly effective study strategies or these little tweaks

little ways of doing some of these common strategies slightly differently that yield

much better results. So we have a free training webinar where we go through the six key ingredients

of a highly successful study process. So when you're applying these much more effective study

strategies compared to the normal way of doing things, what you're doing is you're just layering

advantages together and it honestly makes it hard to go wrong. So specifically in this free training

the six strategies that we will walk you through, if you were doing all six of those things

correctly throughout your study process on a daily and weekly basis, it is honestly hard to go

wrong when you're doing all six of these throughout your whole process. In other words, this free

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and likely hundreds if not thousands of dollars on retaking exam fees. So to see the upcoming times

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So click the link, choose a time and I will see you on the training