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Frustrated with the CPA Study Process? Try These 3 "Tweaks"
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May 3, 2024
Full training: https://www.superfastcpa.com/study-secrets/ Whether you can't find the time to study consistently, you're overwhelmed with your review course, or you just feel like you're spinning your wheels when you do try to study, try the 3 "tweaks" in this video. To take a "deeper dive" on the strategies mentioned and to learn the 6 "key ingredients" of every successful study process, watch the full free training here: https://www.superfastcpa.com/study-secrets/
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If you're frustrated and overwhelmed with your CPA study process, whether that's that
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you can't find the time to study consistently, or you're just overwhelmed with the amount
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of material in your review course, or when you do sit down to study, you just feel lost
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like you're spinning your wheels and you're not really making progress, here are three very simple tweaks that you can make to your study process that will dramatically improve
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the results you're getting from your daily process, and it will save you a ton of time
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on a daily basis. In this quick video, I'm going to give you the big picture of these ideas, or the 30,000
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foot view. If you want a deeper dive where we go into the specifics of these tweaks, then we have
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a free training webinar that you can register for that will do exactly that
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There should be a button somewhere around this video where you can click to register
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for one of those training sessions. So let's start with tweak number one, and that is studying to pass versus trying to
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learn it all. Now that might sound really obvious, but what I mean is when you go in on test day, you
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only need to be able to answer the questions that you're going to see
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You don't need to be able to get up and teach a class on all these different topics
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So when I say study to pass, what I mean is you want to spend 80% of your study time doing
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exactly what you'll be doing on test day. What you're trying to do with your study process, which is much faster and much more
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efficient, is you are trying to get good at answering exam questions
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Now there's a specific way to do that, of course, and it can be done with any review course
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And that is what we go into detail, showing you how that actually works on a practical
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basis in those free study trainings that I mentioned. So let's go on to the second tweak, which is to learn the material in layers versus
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one and done. Now, what do I mean by one and done? Well, in the traditional CPA study approach, you go through each lesson in your review
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course and essentially most people try to kind of master each lesson as they go
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So you put in all this time and effort upfront, watching the video, reading the chapter, doing
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all the practice questions until you fill up your progress indicators to 90 or 100
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in your review course dashboard. And then you feel good about it and you move on to the next lesson
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Now, what is really going on is you are leaving that material behind for weeks or even months
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and you don't look at it again until you get to your final review. When that's the case, it's no surprise why people get into the actual exam, they start
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seeing questions and you know you have covered this stuff, but there are just little details
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that you can't remember because it's been weeks or even months since you've seen that stuff
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When I say you learn the material in layers, it means that part of your daily process is
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constantly getting repeat coverage and coming back to all the things that you've previously studied
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Now, that might sound like a lot of work, but there are two very simple ways to do it
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And again, we will go into the specifics on how to do that, how to implement it into your
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process on the free study training that I mentioned. So let's go on to the third tweak, and that is to break up your study sessions throughout
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your day versus trying to find four to five hours of dedicated study time where you sit
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and do it all at once in one big study session. So specifically what we teach our clients and customers at SuperfastCPA is that when
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you're following our study framework, which you will learn in that free study training
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you only need to spend two hours a day with your main review course
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You can get more done in this two hour session than somebody studying four to five hours
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the normal way. And then the next part of this is you use the idea of mini sessions
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And all that means is you study from your phone in small chunks as you go about your
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normal day. The easiest way to explain this is you get that screen time report where it tells you
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that somehow, even though you feel extremely busy, you found two to three hours a day to
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stare at your phone. So all we're talking about is using some of that time instead of scrolling through
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social media or, you know, listening to music or podcasts. Instead, you use the time in your car to listen to audio notes so that you're constantly getting
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repeat coverage of all the stuff you've previously studied. Or when you're in line at the grocery store, instead of looking at social media, you would
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take quizzes on the app or read review notes again so that you are just constantly in little
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five minute chunks. You're just chipping away at this mountain of information that you're trying to learn
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Now there are some very obvious benefits to doing this. It's much easier to find two hours a day to study than it is to find four or five hours
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a day to study. And so it is much easier to maintain consistency
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It's much easier to have a very consistent daily study routine when you only need to
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find two hours of dedicated study time versus four to five hours
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The other huge advantage is that we really recommend to our customers that you do this
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two hour study session in the morning so that it's locked in
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Nothing can come up throughout the rest of your day to ruin it. Then you have your most important task completed before you start work for the day
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So you have a sense of progress. You don't have to dread this evening study session where you're already tired and your
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brain is fried. And you do the little mini sessions as you go about your day so that by the time you're
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done with work, I mean, you've put in three to five hours of highly effective study time
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and then you're done for the day. So you have the evenings to do some of the normal stuff that you would normally do so
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that you don't go crazy throughout this process. So those are the three tweaks
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Study to pass versus trying to learn it all. Learn the material in layers instead of one and done
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And then to break up your study sessions so that your daily process is much more manageable
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and it's much easier to be consistent on a day to day basis
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So I hope you found those ideas helpful. And if you want to take a deeper dive and have us help you walk through actual examples
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how to actually apply this to your review course, then sign up for one of these free
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study trainings that you can sign up for by clicking the button on or around this video
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So on these free trainings, we are going to cover the two hour study session, exactly
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what it contains, how to actually do it so that when you sit down to study, you know
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exactly what to do. And you can do this with any review course. We're also going to cover the six key ingredients to every winning study process
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When these six key ingredients are part of your daily process, it is honestly hard to
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screw this up. So the six key ingredients are the elusive obvious, the morning ritual, planting the
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seeds, nurture the seeds, Rosetta stones, and then the final 48. Now, I know those are kind of cryptic names for the strategies, but when we walk through
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it on the training, each of those strategies will make complete sense and how they layer
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on each other to create a extremely effective study process. Like I said, when you're doing all six of these things in your process, it is really
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hard to go wrong. Now, the obvious downside of watching one of these trainings is that it does take about
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an hour. These trainings take about an hour, but we cover a lot of information
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And if you will simply attend one of the trainings and focus and pay attention as we walk through
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the strategies and how they all fit together, you will save yourself months and months of
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time and frustration from this one hour training. Here's a few clips from some of our previous customers that started by attending this same
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free training. I was doing my work and I would keep seeing your videos pop up on YouTube that you advertise
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that people can be working full time and pass this exam and you can still have a life
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Like it was those three things. And I think that last one was the most important is have a life
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The hour training. Yes. The hour training. I signed up for that
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I sat down and I listened to this and I got your program and I went on to pass all three
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of my exams before December. And so I'm so super thankful. And I told everybody about super fast what you're doing right now
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It's not working. Give this a try. Know that sometimes you do feel like you're not doing enough, but God, it works
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I studied about half the time I studied for the others. But, you know, I stuck to the super fast method
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So maybe, maybe it'll work out. And I made a 90. So it was like 91
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I made a 91. That was actually my highest grade. And I was like, well, OK, I guess this method works
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And I said, you know what, I'm going to do that. I'm going to just kind of like embrace the study method
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And then I passed. Once I passed FAR, that was my first exam I passed
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I just told myself, like, I'm not going to fail again. Like I know how to pass these now. And I didn't
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I passed the next three in a row. I owe my CPA license probably to your service
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So thank you so much. It helped me more than you probably know
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And then like it was just one after the other. I passed all four of them in three months or so
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It doesn't like have to be this weight like around your neck. So yeah, I basically did that for all four tests
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And I passed all four of them. Yeah, it was like a super condensed period of time
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I had failed like a bunch of exams. Thousands of dollars essentially down the toilet
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The study tips, I think, kind of connected the dots for me and made that happen
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So pretty sweet. So again, to register for one of these free trainings
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where we will go into detail on how to create a dramatically
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effective and efficient study process using your current review course, just click the button that's on or around this video
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Go to the registration page. Choose a time that will work for you. And then do not miss it
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So again, as part of attending the training, you will also get the slides from the training, which you're going to want
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And then we also give you a free mind map of how all the strategies fit together
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So click the video or the button below the video. Go to the registration page
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Choose a time that will work for you. And then we will see you on the training
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