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CPA Study Motivation Tip #5: How Far Apart to Set Your Test Dates?
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May 3, 2024
Get the full guide here: http://www.superfastcpa.com/free In this video you'll discover why it's crucial to be aggressive when you set your exam dates, and why you shouldn't allow yourself to reschedule a test date unless it's absolutely necessary.
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In this video, we're going to continue our series on the 31 tips to pass the CPA exams fast
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This video will cover tip number 5, an easy way to make sure you stay on track
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So in this video, we're covering tip number 5 of 31. You can access the full guide, download it for free after the video at superfastcpa.com
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slash free. So tip number 5 is to set your dates in stone
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Setting your dates and refusing to move them forces you into taking action and taking your
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studying seriously. And really what that means is it forces you on the micro level to take every day of studying seriously
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When you have a date on the calendar, you've paid the money and you are going to refuse
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to allow yourself to push the test back. It makes you take every single day of studying seriously
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And that is really what it takes to pass these exams because there's so much information
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to learn. You can't let a day go by, you know, with kind of phoning it in, not really studying
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or worse, just completely missing, you know, a few days of studying
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So these are the three elements. First of all, if you've watched the other videos in this series, it goes back to really
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the first video of making the all-in commitment. When you've made the all-in commitment, it makes the process much easier to handle and
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you don't give yourself any reasons or any excuses to put off studying or procrastinate
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The second thing is to be aggressive, meaning when you set your exam dates
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Giving yourself too long for one section, it might feel comforting, but it's also more
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time to forget what you've studied. And at the same time, that comfort, that comfortable feeling is a bad thing because
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if you have something coming up or someone invites you to a movie at night, you think
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oh, I mean, I've got three months till my FAR exam, so yeah, I don't need to do my study
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session tonight. Maybe you've experienced this. Taking one day off usually leads to missing a few days and it's just easy for one day
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off to turn into a few days off, maybe even a week off
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Again, when it comes to these exams, you really can't afford that because you've got all these
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things floating around in really your short term memory and those things are as good as
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gone if you haven't reviewed at all, take a few days off
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So some guidelines for the timelines. You should aim for five to six weeks for FAR and REG and then four to five weeks for BEC
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and audit. That might seem really aggressive and your personal judgment obviously comes into play
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on this, but I'm telling you that you can be more aggressive than you think you can
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And that's the third tip, to embrace pressure. Putting pressure on yourself, that is where you will get the best results out of yourself
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You can do things faster and better than you think. Just apply a little pressure and push yourself
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It's really this battle is won and lost on a daily basis
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Setting those exam dates so that you know what timeline you're on and you don't just
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kind of leave it up to circumstance. So again, this is just one of the 31 tips from our free guide
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In the free guide, we cover motivation strategies, time management strategies. Most of all, we cover study strategies and then we cover exam day strategies
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You can get the full guide for free at superfastcpa.com slash free
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Thanks for watching this video
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