48hr Mega Cram Session
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May 3, 2024
From the SuperfastCPA PRO course.
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Welcome back to SuperfastCPA Pro
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In this video, we're almost to the finish line. We're going to cover probably my favorite overall strategy
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I think this is, I know I've described several things as kind of the difference maker
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This is more of the lifesaver. This can make the difference between, you know, scoring
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in the low 70s and the high 70s in just two days. So this is the 48 hour, 48 hour mega cram session
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This idea or strategy, whatever you want to call it, this can easily add 10 points
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to your score that you wouldn't have got otherwise. But it cannot perform miracles
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That's a key thing to understand. This is all assuming that you've taken the study process
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seriously and you've executed the plan up to this point. You cannot have missed huge chunks of studying or huge
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chunks of the material and then think this 48 hour strategy is going to save you
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That's not the case. So I always refer to the CPA exams as not a sprint
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or a marathon, but more like the 800 meters, which if you've never ran track and you've never done this
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terrible race, it's the most difficult race in track because it's a full sprint for a really
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long distance. It is absolutely brutal. And you can look it up. You'll find Reddit threads where people
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debate this. And almost everyone will say either the 400 meters or the 800 meters is the worst race
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in track. Now, so I say that because, you know, I'm always promoting the
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idea. You've got to be hardcore every day. You treat view and treat every day as
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if it literally makes or breaks your score, because that can literally be true
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So the whole time you're basically sprinting. And then at the very end, you give it everything you've got for
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these two days to do this mega cram session. Both of those pieces need to be there
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This cram session is not going to save a crappy attempt at studying for the last six weeks
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The idea behind this, I just went through all this. The idea behind this is the last two days
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you want to have as much additional material floating around inside your head as possible
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So you've taken the study process seriously the entire time. You've done what you need to do
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This is just icing on the cake. And again, there are a lot of things you can do to just add
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insurance that you get a passing score. Many sessions being the biggest one, constant
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exposure to the material all throughout your day. And then this one, just a big cram session right at the end
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like literally before the exams, the last two days before an exam. So you put as much more
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information in your head, in your short term memory as possible to just bolster all this other effort
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you've put in to this point. Doing this right, like I said, can add 10 or more points to your
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score by itself. It can be the difference between getting that 75 and above
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or barely missing by a few points. So here's how this should work
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The key piece to this is to schedule your test on a Monday
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This way you have Saturday and Sunday to perform all day long this mega cram session
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That I'm referring to. So schedule your test on a Monday. Now on these two days, Saturday and Sunday, you want to aim
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for six to eight hours each day or more if you can handle it. But at a bare minimum, six to eight hours
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sitting in front of your review course. And this is what you do. You should be through all the new
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material at this point. This is what you do. You work in sets of the following
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two sets back to back of 30 cumulative multiple choice questions and then one set
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of five to seven cumulative practice sims. That's one set. Two sets of 30. Sorry
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A set of 30. A second set of 30. And then one set of five to seven practice sims
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And in this six to eight hours, you just finish as many sets of this as you can in six to eight hours
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Now, there's personal judgment involved here. And as you've heard on some of those interviews on the podcast
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people treated these the last few days before an exam differently. I would highly recommend you do at least four or five sets
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of what I just said, because the worst thing you can do, the worst strategy. And this is what I did on my first attempt
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at FAR, which I ended up failing. The last few days before an exam, if you don't know any
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better, kind of the natural. I mean, it it makes sense when you kind of
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you want to go back and spend a bunch of time trying to perfect your weakest areas
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For me, that was just the like the hardest stuff. I mean, I guess it's all relative
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My weakest areas were the hardest things for me personally to understand
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So I went back to these like four or five topics, not realizing that there are over 200 topics
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on FAR. And for that reason, put most of your time into this strategy instead of trying to go back
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to your weak areas. Because, you know, let's say you have four or five weak areas
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but there really are 200 plus topics on FAR. So for four or five topics, you know, you might see anywhere
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from two to five questions. That's not going to ruin your score. But what would ruin your score is neglecting
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the other 200 topics in the last two days. And then you get in there and see a bunch of very otherwise
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simple questions that you just cannot remember because you didn't refresh everything really quickly the last two days
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That is the point of this strategy. Again, the overall overarching idea
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with our methods or framework is constant repeat coverage of everything. Repeat coverage is king for the CPA exams
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So spend most of those two days doing this strategy. Two sets of 30
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Yeah, two sets of 30 cumulative multiple choice questions followed by one set of five to seven practice sims
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That makes one. I keep saying sets individually. That makes one set
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30-30 practice sims. Do five to seven of those each day. Finish as many of these as you can in six to eight hours
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Work through those. You obviously read the explanations as you go through each set
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of practice questions and then practice sims. Keep making flashcards for things as necessary
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things you keep missing or you keep forgetting. After you've studied six to eight hours, you're not done
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Take our review notes and read those from start to finish. That should only take an hour or two, really
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They're just really not that hard to read through all the way. Then you start working through your decks of
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your flashcards that you created through the study process. The key idea here is that in these two days, you want
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to get through all of your flashcard decks at least three or four times
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Now, whether you're using Brainscape or Quizlet, they have a function where you can
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kind of rate yourself on each flashcard. And if you rate yourself that you know this, you got
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it right the first time, you'll see that one less and less. So you obviously do want to spend time
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reviewing the ones that even though they're all technically your weak areas based on how I've described it
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You will have the weaker of the weakest and that's what you're using your flashcard time for is rating
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yourself throughout your flashcard decks. The apps will do that on its own
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You just want to work through your flashcards three or four times in these last two days
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And if you have time to do even more than that, the more the better, because if you've been diligent about the flashcards
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those contain your personal weak areas and you've written them in your own words
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That's a million times better than going back to the review course, redoing a lesson that's written by an accounting
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professor, you know, that just uses all this technical language that's harder to understand
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If you've done the flashcards right, these are better than gold these last two days before an exam
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So the last thing, the morning of the exam, try to get to the test center one to two hours early
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I really felt like this, this even though this is a small
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but the very last step of things you can control before you sit down in the testing center
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I would get there and I would sit in my car and I would go through my flashcard decks again
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I would at least get through the whole thing one more time. I would just burn through my flashcards on my phone
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If you've been sorting them by how well you know them, I just mentioned this, you know, skip the ones that you definitely
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know at this point and focus on the ones that you still struggle with. And then the last thing, if you get through those and
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you still have a half hour, read through our review notes one last time. And as a last ditch effort, maybe go
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specifically in the review notes to the topics that you're just not that comfortable with
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But this is the best thing you can do the morning of the exam. I wouldn't really recommend doing anything heavy like
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you know, getting up super early. Sleep is a really important thing the night before the exam
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So prioritize that. And then this is fairly light, this flashcard in your car
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idea. That's fairly low impact on your brain. So this is kind of the most I would recommend, but I do feel like
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this is very important. And all four of my sections, when I did this, I was
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going to say I felt like, but I didn't feel like, I know it's a fact. I went in and on the first testlet
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I seriously saw like four or five questions that I knew I had just, you know, within the last 20 minutes
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seen on my flashcards on my phone. And, you know, I went four for four
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after implementing this whole study plan that you've just watched the videos on
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So, again, think of this whole thing, everything we've been through as a big recipe and every ingredient matters
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All of these little strategies all put together. You can customize, leave a few
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things out that might be small. But the key ideas, the key ingredients
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you want to implement those in your study routine. And so, you know, here we are at the end of these videos
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I hope you found this very helpful. Now, here's another thing that's very important for you to
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realize. We went through all these videos. You're probably thinking, OK, this makes sense
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I, I more or less know exactly what to do now. I would recommend that in the first two to three weeks, as you
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start implementing this stuff on a daily basis, you do come back
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and watch some of these videos over and there will be new levels of understanding unlocked as you have now
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gone out and actually tried to apply these things. It's the same idea, again, as riding a bike
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You can have somebody watch videos over and over about how to ride a bike, but they will not
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understand it really until they sit on the bike and actually try it and tip over a few times
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So there's theory and then there's the application and the levels of understanding in the theory are unlocked as you go through
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the levels of actually applying it in real life. So do that to where you are
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you know, you perfect your own study process. So best of luck with your studying and make sure to email me
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