This Works Way Better Than Taking Notes for CPA Study

So most people do some form of note-taking as they go through each study session

They write things down, little key takeaways or the steps to a problem or a formula

But to take that to the next level, you take those key pieces of information that emerge

as you work through the practice problems for a topic, and you turn those into flash

cards at the end of your study session. The reason that you want to take those things that you wrote down during the study session

and turn them into flash cards is because of forced recall. Now on exam day, you have to walk into the testing center and your only tool for answering

those questions you're going to see is the information that you can pull out of your

own memory. In other words, your recall or your retention of all the topics

So going back to your day-to-day study sessions, again, writing out notes and traditional notes

that's better than nothing. But when you go back to review those, everything that you wrote down is just in front of you

on the sheets of paper. So your brain doesn't have to do any work or it's not dealing with your memory at all

to re-read the stuff that you wrote down in your notes. So the flash cards, on the other hand, involve recall

As you review the flash cards, and if you use a free digital service like Brainscape

then you have the app on your phone, you can be reviewing your flash cards throughout the day

Each day, week to week, as you create these flash cards throughout the process, you're

spending 15 to 20 minutes a day always reviewing the flash cards that you've been making

And so in doing that, you are continually reinforcing those concepts, but instead of

just reading them off of your notes that you've written down, there's that forced recall element

so that you're committing these things to memory, you're deepening your understanding

and it's all involving that same mechanism that you're going to have to rely on on test

day to pull that stuff out of your own memory. 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 are 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 training, it's one hour that will literally save you months and

months of time and frustration and likely hundreds, if not thousands of dollars on retaking

exam fees. So to see the upcoming times, you can click on the link that's either on or below this video

Click that link, go to that page and choose a time that will work for you, and then make

sure to watch the training. I promise you that as you watch the training, you will have multiple aha moments and light

bulbs going off in your head, and you will see the study process much differently, and

you'll be able to see how this is going to work so much better and more effectively than

what you've been doing so far. So click the link, choose a time, and I will see you on the training