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In this SuperfastCPA podcast interview, you'll hear how Tyler optimized his CPA study process and passed his CPA exams. You'll learn the strategies Tyler combined to create a study process the helped him pass the CPA exams quickly and efficiently.
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00:00 Actual Interview
00:27 Intro
02:22 Tyler Talks About His Background
03:17 Why Tyler Got Into Accounting
04:04 Tyler Talks About He Found SuperfastCPA
05:55 What Clicked for Tyler After Watching the Podcasts
08:01 Tyler's Daily CPA Study Routine
09:25 How Tyler Would Read the Notes for Review
10:43 Tyler Was Still Able to Study While Working Full-Time
12:57 Tyler Planned His Study So He Can Have His Evenings
14:01 Tyler's Study Routine on Weekends
14:40 Tyler Doing MCQs Before, What Changed After SuperfastCPA
16:21 Following the Strategies Tyler Felt That It Helped a Lot
17:42 How Tyler Approached the Practice Sims
20:55 What Tyler Liked Overall From SuperfastCPA
21:21 How Tyler Utilized His Different Review Courses
22:49 Celebrating After Passing His Fourth Passing Score
23:39 Tyler Talking About What He's Doing Now That He's Done
24:53 New to Flashcards, Tyler Incorporated It to His Study
28:03 A Key Factor That Contributed to Good Grades
29:56 Tyler's Top Tips for People Struggling with the CPA Exams
34:52 Outro
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But there wasn't like, I wasn't following a structure
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I would go through like the areas, but that was kind of it
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It was kind of up to me. And so when I kind of looked back, I was like, okay, well, you know, I obviously was kind of
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all over the place. So I need to figure something. I need to have there's something more than I'm missing
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And then you had it. Yeah. So. Welcome to episode 103 of the
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CPA Exam Experience podcast from Super Fast CPA. I'm Nate and in today's interview, you're going to
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hear me talk with Tyler. So when Tyler started studying for the CPA exams, he actually started with a
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pretty similar strategy that was mostly based on answering MCQs. And on his first exam
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it got him really close, but not quite all the way there. And he had been seeing our YouTube ads
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all the way through his bachelor's degree. So he decided to watch one of the free trainings
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He got our program, and he really found the pro course valuable because it just gave a cohesive
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approach that included all the different strategies instead of just focusing on one main strategy
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So in this interview, you'll hear him describe what those differences were and the different
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strategies, how it all came together to help him pass his CPA exams
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Before we get into the interview, I just want to mention two things. First, our free study training, which again, Tyler
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mentions this in the interview, but it was the first thing he came across, or the first thing that
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he watched once he decided, okay, I want to see what Super Fast CPA is all about. And so if you have
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not watched one of those free training sessions or free training webinars, that is the best place for
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you to start. You can sign up for one of those on our homepage at superfastcpa.com or the link will
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be down in the description. The second thing is our free podcast giveaway. So each month we give away
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three pairs of Powerbeat Pro headphones to three random listeners, people that have entered their
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name and email into the giveaway. The idea behind that is mainly having headphones, you can be listening
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or doing CPA study anytime, anywhere, using our audio notes. That link as well, we'll be down
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in the description of this episode. So with that out of the way, let's get into the interview with
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Tyler. I've listened to quite a few. Nice. Nice. Are you a golfer
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A little bit, yeah. I try. Yeah. Yeah, I spend a lot of time with that stupid game
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I just noticed your shirt. Yeah, I get a little angry alcohol sometimes
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Yeah, it's, I know. I know exactly. So you're in your time zone
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Are you in Arizona? Yep, yep. Nice. Where at? Down in Tucson
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Yeah, me and my friends usually do like a golf trip in the winter, but not to, where's
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Tucson in relation to Phoenix? Is it slow it? It's like two hour south
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Nice. Yeah, that's a great place for golf. So you've heard a bunch of these
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So how did you get into accounting? You mentioned the military. Now I'm assuming you're in accounting
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What's kind of that story? Well, I got out of the military and I needed to go to school
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So I started in business and I did good in accounting classes and you can do everything you can do with a business degree with accounting degree
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So with a little bit more. So I went to accounting and looked up what the best accountant was and that was a CPA and that was the goal
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Yeah, just nice. Yeah, that's, I mean, that's close to, that's pretty much my story was
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yeah accounting was like just what I got A's in without really any effort it just I don't know
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made sense and yeah like you said it's more specific than just a business degree so okay so you go to
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school did you jump into studying for the CPA right after school or uh what yeah so I graduated
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yep I graduated with my bachelor's degree and then went and got my master's and then right after my masters
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Like the same month, I started studying for the CPA. Okay. And when you started, you probably just got a review course and started grinding through lessons
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Yeah. So the master's degree, the school I went to came with Wiley
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So I tried to use Wiley. I kind of scoured Ninja or read it a lot and they recommended Ninja
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And so I kind of just went into Ninja. and used their MCQs a lot
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So I graduated in October of last year. That's pretty much when I started studying
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And I took FAR the first time in mid-November. I don't know if you've heard about the lazy man CPA strategy
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but it's kind of like a couple-year-old post on Reddit, but he's like, I just hammered MCQs the whole time
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So that's what I did. Okay. There's a little bit more strategy to it
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but I really just hammered MCQs. I ended up getting the 65 in November
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And so I was like, okay, well, my family, we were moving out of the house at that time
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So took the holidays off. Well, I was waiting for the score. And then we took the holidays off
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But then from there, I was just like, okay, I need to have more of a plan
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I need to, you know, just kind of attack this a better way
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And you were on YouTube the entire time throughout my college experience
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So, and then I started listening to your podcasts and that's how I found you
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Awesome. Okay. So from, you know, from what you were trying and then you got a 65, do you remember whether it was on a podcast or maybe our free, one of those free webinars we do
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Were there any specific ideas that you thought, okay, that's maybe what I'm missing or just any ideas that really made sense to you
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yeah it was definitely from the podcast um so somehow i i think it was from youtube i just clicked on your channel
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and found the podcast but um i really liked how it sounded like it had just a little bit more structure
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and there was a game plan essentially and i really liked how you emphasize utilizing your smartphone
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because that's what i did my entire um college experience was from my smartphone pretty much so
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yeah i really liked how you incorporated that okay And then I didn't even, I didn't look up your account before
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Did you have our pro videos or was it just the study tools? Yeah, no, I had, I used both, you know
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Okay. Okay, so when you first got to. Yeah, I thought the pro videos, they helped me out a lot personally
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I feel like just getting the structure and just seeing the process, how it works
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I think that helped, obviously it helped me out a lot. so yeah yeah so just to sum up your uh so so after you got our program and you're done now
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right you you pass you're done with all for right yep awesome okay and it just it just started
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working for you and you just started passing sections obviously i guess yeah so yeah i just
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you know i hear the success stories from um you know for your podcasts and you know i'm especially
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me i'm like i've never used flash cards in my life already i really don't like them but you know i'm gonna you know it's working for people so i'm gonna trust it and i'm
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to dive in full war and uh that's what i did and it just it's crazy it's like a domino effect
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and you figure out what works for you and it it just works so awesome okay so what would what did like
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your daily uh study routine look like did where were you following exactly what's in the pro
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videos a two hour morning session or how'd the whole day go for you uh
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Yeah, the first two tests I took, it was almost, it was pretty exact to the process I'd wake up
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I was always an early studier, so I always woke up early, but it's really helped me out to get that out, just that big chunk right out, with the multiple choice questions too
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So pretty much when I first started the test, I would read through your notes
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That's the first thing I do. I would just want to know what I'm looking at
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And then from there I would do the hour and a half of either at the beginning it was a new subject and then the 30 and then I would just do a 30 question review And then at the towards the end it would just be like an hour and a half of subjects that I was struggling on And then the 30 question review of the whole
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And then the drives were just filled with audio. And then a lunchtime, I would have about an hour of lunch
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So I'd take 30 minutes to either review notes or flashcards. And then the other 30 minutes I'd try to decompress
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And then I would usually do an hour. the afternoon of just either catching up on something I was struggling on or just reviewing the notes
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I use the notes a lot, especially towards like the last two weeks of my process, I would probably
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read the notes almost once a day just because that's what you're being tested on
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And if you can get through, if you can look through the, I feel like if you could look through
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the notes and recognize everything that you're reading, then you're going to be fine for the test
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so um and then i would i for i took far and odd first and for those two tests i used the multiple
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choice questions on the phone a lot more um but towards the end i started using my flashcards more
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okay yeah uh just curious when you if you would read the notes from start to finish how long did that
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take if you did it all at once? Is that like in... Oh, well... Reg was a beast, so..
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So that one, uh, that one took a little bit longer. And it wouldn't be like..
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It would be more... I mean, at the beginning of the process
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you're, you have to read the notes. So, um, but towards the end, you kind of know
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you already know what you're reading. So it'd kind of be like skimming through because it's just, I feel like it's just kind of trying to
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keep that recollection up. So, yeah. I get home and I just read through the notes
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this is what that. Okay, that's right. This is this. So just trying to just trying to keep your head above
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water. Yeah. And you you're working during this time that you're studying? Yeah. Yeah. So I was
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yeah, I worked full time and then I actually passed reg during tax. I'm a tax account. So I passed
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reg during tax season. So that there's a lot of hours put in there. But yeah. But I feel like something I try to
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utilized too especially with like far and and reg is i tried to incorporate what i was learning in
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my day-to-day tasks so that way it was also kind of studying too um i know it's hard like with
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audit that was like a hardest test for me because there was just nothing i could just something i'm
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never done just yeah a new subject so yeah audit is that's uh an interview i did earlier
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um she was uh hadn't even she came up through like like insurance, working in insurance, and then was switching over to this role, taking the CPA
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So she hadn't done a degree in accounting or anything. And I was thinking, like, that is hard
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And especially audit, probably just sounds so weird to, yeah, if you haven't even taken any
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accounting classes in college. But not working in auditing, yeah, auditing would be hard
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Let's see. So I had another question there. So you would, okay so you would read the notes okay you had if you were going to jump into let's say leases you would
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read leases in our notes and then jump into the practice questions in your review course and from
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there so i would only so i would i would only read so that the morning time was only multiple choice
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question time so that was blocked out yep so i would read the notes prior to starting anything
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and then i would just do multiple choice questions in the morning and then and I do that the one hour 30 minutes would be dedicated to a new subject or
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or something I was struggling on and I'll do the 30 question review out of just everything
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and then the rest of the day was dedicated to flashcards pretty much and and reading the notes
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gotcha and were you able to kind of have normal evenings for them in some respects or
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were you studying again two hours when you got home? Yeah. So I would, yeah, so I do the, I do like two hours in the morning and then have like the 30 minutes
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at lunch and kind of whatever I did throughout the day. And then I would do, I would just read through for an hour
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So I just gave myself an hour when I got home to read through and then I was done. So it's kind of hard
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For me personally, it's hard to like, if I'm going to do something like 100% of my attention
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has to be on it. So it's hard for me to kind of flip back and forward
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So what I'd do is I'd either stay at work or I'd go home, dedicate that hour, and then that was it
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Yeah. Yeah. And that's nice, though, that you, you know, you've probably heard me talk about it on other episodes
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But if your whole life is you wake up, go straight to work and then try to study four hours every night, especially if you're trying to, like, have a family, it's just, yeah, life gets pretty miserable, pretty fast
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Yeah, absolutely. And with the weekends, I probably only did, I would do about the same amount of time
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I think total during the weekdays would be like three and a half to four hours
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And then during the weekends, I would only do about four hours too. And then like maybe in the evening I'd flip through some flash cards and read the notes
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But usually I try to keep the same. And my wife, she loves to do activities
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So it was definitely a priority on her schedule to. to make sure we were prioritizing things
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Nice. But she was amazing, though. Yeah. There was something else in your little thing I was going to ask about
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Actually, I wanted to ask more about the, what did you call it, the poor man's approach
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It's like a famous Reddit post. It's the lazy man CPA. It's like a three-year-old Reddit post
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He's like, on R-CPA. On, I don't know. If you type in lazy man
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man CPA like on Google it'll be like one of the first things it shows up right okay it's literally
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just a guy who did multiple choice questions for like 20 days straight and somehow passed okay
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yeah I haven't uh I don't think I've come across that um and so with that what's kind of the
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I mean you just do the MCQs per each lesson I guess what I'm asking yes what from our program
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And what was different from that that kind of you said it gave you more structure or more of a strategic approach
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There wasn't. So I didn't really like have a good. I mean, this is just a guy saying pretty much from what I got
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It's just a post. So pretty much what I got from it is stop wasting your time on everything and just do MCQs
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And so from there on it was like, okay, well, I shouldn't do that stuff
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But there wasn't like, I wasn't following a structure. I would go through, I would go through like the areas, but that was kind of it
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It was kind of up to me. And so when I kind of looked back, I was like, okay, well, you know, I obviously was kind
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of all over the place. So I need to figure something. I need to have there's something more than I'm missing
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And then you had it. So, no. Yeah. Do you feel like the, the daily set of 30 just helped a lot with, it kind of solves that
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retention issue? I mean, did you feel like that just really helped? And it's also a really good indicator where you're at
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Yeah, I think it's pretty crucial, especially, I mean, even in the beginning stages
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like if you're only like two or three chapters in or sections in
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it just keeps that stuff in your head. And I think that's the whole name of the game is reviewing and just consistency
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is more important than knowing the next thing. So if you can remember what you did last week, it's better than learning one new thing today, I think
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Right, right. Yeah, I mean, when you think about kind of the traditional approach, you cover, I mean, on far, you know, there's literally over 200 things listed in the blueprints
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And it just doesn't make any sense to spend hours on each one, you know, mastering it for one day
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the next day you move on to the next thing and re-overwrite your whole short-term memory
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Yeah, it's, I don't know. It's so obvious when you say it, but it just, that's not how most people do it
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Right. Yeah, I agree. And we talked about the weekends. So when did you work in practice Sims or how did you use practice Sims in your overall process Yeah so I pretty much didn touch practice sims until the final review or the final review
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I pretty much stuck to the super fast way of the final review
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The two eight hour days was kind of hard for me, so I might have spread it, I might have spread it between like three or four days
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So I'd be like four hour. I would do four hour days essentially. but what I would do is I would pretty much do two two hour blocks of the same thing
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So I would do just like the morning sessions. And so, and then I would dedicate either the day before or two days before
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I would dedicate maybe an hour each to going through the Sims
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But I didn't, I just went through the Sims. Like I just went, looked at it, okay, this is what it looks like
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What's next? And then if I felt like I needed to work through it, then I would
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to work through it. But I probably went through like 80 sims before each test, but I just wanted
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to see what they looked like, just so I could see what I can expect. Yeah. Yeah, that's a
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I mean, that's kind of right. That's kind of the approach is, I think a lot of people
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uh, on a per chapter basis, you know, generate the sim and try to take it like it's a test
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you know, they try to fill the whole thing out. And it just takes a lot of time, especially if you're
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unfamiliar with it. And yeah, just the whole idea of reverse engineering them. Like looking through
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okay, this one's simple. It's classification of depreciation types or whatever. Like, okay, simple
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I get that. So that took 10 seconds. And then, okay, this one, this is confusing. And so clicking
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through reading the solutions and then figuring out, okay, they're pulling this from this
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little document or this memo and it's just so much faster obviously to kind of reverse engineer
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how they work yeah it is and um i think the one time i might spend time on a sim would be like
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a topic i struggled on because they just you work through it more through a sim but i don't know
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you're you get you get the same benefit with a multiple choice question it gives you the answer and it gives you the walk through so yeah i don't know yeah and uh the again the
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The daily sets of 30, I end up saying this exact phrase on every episode
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Like I get sick of saying it. But those daily sets of 30, they just solve so many problems
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Like you said, you could make the argument that simulations are really just a more tedious type of a multiple choice question
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And then doing daily sets of 30, you just get very comfortable with multiple choice questions
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And you get fast at them. and obviously that's what you're going to be doing on test day instead of just spending hours
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on the video lecture hamster wheel you know you just get so much exposure to what you're
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going to be doing on test day yeah well and that's why I liked how the super fast CPA I like
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the structure of it is because it I mean it gives you time like yeah it gives you time to
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hang out with your family but the time that you have to study is the time that you have to had to study and that's something that worked well with me is like okay this study time 100
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this is what we're doing we're you know we're not kind of sitting and eating chips watching a
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video we're working we're working through questions so yeah exactly yep i remember that from my
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first uh attempt on far when i just spent eight hours a day watching every video and yeah it's
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just it takes so much time to check everything off 100% in the lessons. Oh, that was my question
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So did you stick with using Wiley mostly through the process or was Ninja kind of your main
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review course as you went through? So I, yeah, I pretty much, I would say I used Ninja 95
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at the time. It was the only time I would, I maybe did 30 multiple choice questions through Wiley
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I just didn't like it. It just wasn't my cup of tea, but they did have really good Sims
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I felt like the Sims in Wiley were better than ninjas. So on those last two days, I would go through a lot of the Wiley Sims
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Okay. Yeah. So you would just, and that's kind of, yeah, how it is
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I mean, a lot of people never experienced two different review courses, but like something like Glyme
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Glyme has very detailed, like very good explanations. But they go, like, they make every question
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really it's like overcomplicated so it's kind of like it's good practice but i think it also
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stresses people out because they're like is this what this whole exam is like because every topic is
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the advanced for um yeah yeah uh so did you guys do anything big to celebrate when you got your
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fourth passing score um well that was kind of our so we kind of had a ritual after every time i
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took a test, the family would go out and do something. So we'd go out to like the zoo or the aquarium
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or we'd all go golf and we did, you know, we'd just, we'd have to do an activity after I took a test
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that's just had to happen. And then, yeah, we had a little bit of a, we went out to eat and had a
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little bit of a party, just internally. So. Yeah. Awesome. It was, it's definitely relieving
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though, though that score release was, was, was rough. So. Yeah. When did you get your fourth passing score
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was it recently? I think it was June 14th, I think. Of this month
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So just barely. You just barely got your force pass. Just barely. Yeah
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Awesome. So are you still almost not used to not studying every day
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Yeah. So my dad does ultramarathons and he's already got me in it
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So I've already signed up for a lot. That is nuts. Meaning what, 100 miles
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50 miles? So he's done a 50-miler, and I paced, it was like a year ago, I paced him for like 15 miles of it
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So the most I ran is like 15 miles. So we signed up for 50K, so about 30 miles
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So we'll see, we'll see how that goes. Yeah, I mean like ultra marathon
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I mean, a marathon by itself is just ridiculous. 26 miles. Yeah
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So you haven't ran a marathon? You're going to go straight to a... No, I haven't ran a marathon. Yeah, I mean, I've done a lot, especially, like, in the military, but the most I've ran is like 15 miles
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So I still have a few months to... I'm not doing it tomorrow
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There's no way I'm doing that. But, yeah, I have a little bit time to prepare
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Yeah, well, good luck. That's wild. Oh, thank you. Let's see. So we talked about..
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Oh, I was going to ask you the flashcards question. So that was new to you making flashcards, but you incorporated that strategy as well
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Yeah, flashcards were 100% new. I never used them. I've never liked them
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So when I started using them, it's kind of like, oh, these are really useful
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So I probably had maybe 150 flashcards per test, but really it was just stuff that I struggled on or stuff that I know I needed to remember
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Yeah. And they're just so easy to flip through too. You're on your phone
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You can just flick through in real just 15 minutes in your throw
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Yeah, I think that's, it's just absolutely critical. If someone is emailing me and saying like, I've done everything and I'm just not getting a passing score, what else can I do
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That's like the first thing I ask him. I'm like, okay, how diligent are you about making flashcards and do
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you explain it back to yourself out loud and do you write it on your own words? And like if you're
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doing that, it's easy to watch a video, well, even read an explanation and tell yourself
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okay, yeah, that makes sense. But then if you see it later in a slightly different format or
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you know, it's just easy to forget little details that could easily be on the test. And if that
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happens three or four times within the same topic, you want to stop, make a flash card
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And if you put that in your own words that going to come to your mind a thousand times easier you know than just trying to remember this one explanation one time that you thought made sense at the time Yeah I 100 agree I feel like it also a it a customized weak points you know cheat cheat Like you you choose what on those and if you hit your weak points on those you
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you're going to be good to go. Right. And I think it's a lot more valuable in that respect than I know that all the review
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courses now you have all this adaptive stuff and, you know, you can just generate questions
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from your weak areas. And I think, I mean, that's like valuable. Like you said, if you've done it through the whole study timeline per section, by the end, you've got your weak areas but written in your own little explanation
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And it's a totally different thing than just generating questions on your weak areas
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Yeah. So you used a digital one, it sounds like, like quiz
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Yeah, I used, I think it was brain scape. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, awesome
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And then how would you organize the decks? Would you just get 30 and start a new one, or would you try to actually organize them per topic
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I liked to organize them in the areas, like in the four major areas of the test
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Gotcha. Is how I like to do it. Okay. Yeah. Awesome. Well, I think we went through everything
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Was there anything we missed, anything that you felt like was another key
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part of your success that we didn't talk talk about um i feel like the one of the major things i felt
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me i mean i think it helped you help me a lot was um i would read the notes the day of the test so i
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would take my test was at a m every time so i wake up a five read through for an hour hit my flashcards
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and and then go take the test i feel like that was like you don't go to a game and not warm up
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So I'm not going to go to a test and not warm up is kind of how I treat it up
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Yeah. Yeah, it is. And in my opinion, there's all just these little things that are all worth five to ten points
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And so if in the last week you do three of these strategies that are worth five to ten points alone, you know, it's almost hard to not get a passing score
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As long as you're, you nailed the process, you know, during it
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That kind of stuff. Right. fix a happy study process, but it would just add on. And that's one of them. That's exactly what I would do
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I mean, I didn't have our notes at the time I was taking the exams, but my flashcards, I would
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hammer those the last few days, just like what's in that mega cram session video. And then I would
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also get to the testing center like two hours early and just get through all of them. And that was
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just you get all your, like you said, all your weak areas, but written in your own words
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floating around in your brain before you walk in. And it's, that one thing is worth five to ten
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points at least, I think. Oh, yeah, easily. It just, it's, it's, it's so nice walking. You just feel good
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like, you feel prepared walking in. It's, and just put it down. So, mm-hmm. Yeah. Okay, so last
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question I always ask, what would be your top, even if it's stuff we already talked about
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what would be your top two or three tips to people that are really struggling with their process
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One of the biggest things for me on the test was taking my time on the test
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The first test I took, I felt like I rushed the first testlet, and I feel like I kind of carried through the rest of the tests
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I mean, obviously I got 65, so I didn't, you know, there's still stuff I needed to learn
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but from every other test, I just took my time. I had plenty of time at the end
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I know some people are different, but that was a big key for me. And then you need to make sure you're trust in the process
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Sometimes it feels like, I don't know, sometimes you get in your own head and you're like, am I doing enough
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Do I need to do this? Do I need to do that? Just trust, put your head down, trust the process, and it's going to work for you
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Yeah. Yeah. And I think the key thing is having a process, right
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I think the trap a lot of people fall into is just throwing time at this, like blindly
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Like you said, you can sit in front of your review course and just burn hours, press and play on videos
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But that's very low impact or whatever. Yeah, having a process. And then along with that, did you feel like, I don't know, by like the second exam or whatever, did you get to where you just really felt like, I have this process, I have this figured out
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Like as long as I do it every day. Oh, yeah, absolutely. You end up, I feel like you even, like for BEC was my last test
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and I feel like I spent less time studying pretty significantly. I feel like you just, you just know how to learn
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Like, you learn how to learn, and then you're good to go from there. You're just get so good at it
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Yeah. Yep. It's almost sad. There's not like four more exams, not really, but
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It is sad, but I'll take it back. Because then this thing you spent just months on, you know, hundreds of hours is just done with
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But, obviously, it's awesome to have it done too. So, well, that's awesome
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Thanks for taking the time to do this. Obviously, people find these really valuable
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And I love hearing people's stories. So I'm glad you found our YouTube
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Was it a YouTube ad you saw first? Oh, you saw them all through college, you said
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Oh, yeah. Your face was everywhere. That's annoying, but I guess it, yeah
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That's kind of the game with, I don't know, internet businesses. So, all right
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Yeah. Yeah, well, you know, it worked. And the process worked too
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Yeah, I'm glad it could help. Like, if you were to sum it up, from what you were doing before
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what was the most helpful thing overall that you got from Super Fast CPA
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The most helpful thing for me was the study process that was just learning, just, I don't know, I wouldn't even say learning
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Just understanding how to attack the test is key to passing the tests
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And just from what you were doing before, I mean, I know this, but just in your own words, because review courses don't really come with a whole strategic plan, right
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was that kind of what you experienced you're just presented with all these lessons and because you
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don't know any better you operate under the assumption that you just need to learn every single thing in
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there was that kind of what contributed to the first time where it just wasn't really working
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yeah i think um i i feel like it was a little different for it because i i have always done
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things a little bit differently um because i've hated textbooks i don't know i i um so usually i've watched videos
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So I really just kind of, I don't know, what did it for me was it just literally just
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kind of having that structure. I knew I didn't need to do everything and it wasn't going to waste time on like reading
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the book or watching the lectures because I'd list to do enough of your podcast not to
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know that. So once I gave far my shot, I was like, you know what
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this, you know, this is going to be worth it for the rest of my life, essentially, is what I
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told myself. And so I did it. And when I do something, I have to do it all the way. I'm going to give
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it, you know, I'm going to give it as a good chance. So that's what I did, and it carried me through
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Yeah. Yeah, that's awesome. Good to hear. I'm glad it could help. Yeah. Yep, definitely
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Yeah, congrats on being done. Okay. Okay, so that was the interview with Tyler
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