48hr Mega Cram Session

Welcome back to SuperfastCPA Pro

In this video, we're almost to the finish line. We're going to cover probably my favorite overall strategy

I think this is, I know I've described several things as kind of the difference maker

This is more of the lifesaver. This can make the difference between, you know, scoring

in the low 70s and the high 70s in just two days. So this is the 48 hour, 48 hour mega cram session

This idea or strategy, whatever you want to call it, this can easily add 10 points

to your score that you wouldn't have got otherwise. But it cannot perform miracles

That's a key thing to understand. This is all assuming that you've taken the study process

seriously and you've executed the plan up to this point. You cannot have missed huge chunks of studying or huge

chunks of the material and then think this 48 hour strategy is going to save you

That's not the case. So I always refer to the CPA exams as not a sprint

or a marathon, but more like the 800 meters, which if you've never ran track and you've never done this

terrible race, it's the most difficult race in track because it's a full sprint for a really

long distance. It is absolutely brutal. And you can look it up. You'll find Reddit threads where people

debate this. And almost everyone will say either the 400 meters or the 800 meters is the worst race

in track. Now, so I say that because, you know, I'm always promoting the

idea. You've got to be hardcore every day. You treat view and treat every day as

if it literally makes or breaks your score, because that can literally be true

So the whole time you're basically sprinting. And then at the very end, you give it everything you've got for

these two days to do this mega cram session. Both of those pieces need to be there

This cram session is not going to save a crappy attempt at studying for the last six weeks

The idea behind this, I just went through all this. The idea behind this is the last two days

you want to have as much additional material floating around inside your head as possible

So you've taken the study process seriously the entire time. You've done what you need to do

This is just icing on the cake. And again, there are a lot of things you can do to just add

insurance that you get a passing score. Many sessions being the biggest one, constant

exposure to the material all throughout your day. And then this one, just a big cram session right at the end

like literally before the exams, the last two days before an exam. So you put as much more

information in your head, in your short term memory as possible to just bolster all this other effort

you've put in to this point. Doing this right, like I said, can add 10 or more points to your

score by itself. It can be the difference between getting that 75 and above

or barely missing by a few points. So here's how this should work

The key piece to this is to schedule your test on a Monday

This way you have Saturday and Sunday to perform all day long this mega cram session

That I'm referring to. So schedule your test on a Monday. Now on these two days, Saturday and Sunday, you want to aim

for six to eight hours each day or more if you can handle it. But at a bare minimum, six to eight hours

sitting in front of your review course. And this is what you do. You should be through all the new

material at this point. This is what you do. You work in sets of the following

two sets back to back of 30 cumulative multiple choice questions and then one set

of five to seven cumulative practice sims. That's one set. Two sets of 30. Sorry

A set of 30. A second set of 30. And then one set of five to seven practice sims

And in this six to eight hours, you just finish as many sets of this as you can in six to eight hours

Now, there's personal judgment involved here. And as you've heard on some of those interviews on the podcast

people treated these the last few days before an exam differently. I would highly recommend you do at least four or five sets

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

at FAR, which I ended up failing. The last few days before an exam, if you don't know any

better, kind of the natural. I mean, it it makes sense when you kind of

you want to go back and spend a bunch of time trying to perfect your weakest areas

For me, that was just the like the hardest stuff. I mean, I guess it's all relative

My weakest areas were the hardest things for me personally to understand

So I went back to these like four or five topics, not realizing that there are over 200 topics

on FAR. And for that reason, put most of your time into this strategy instead of trying to go back

to your weak areas. Because, you know, let's say you have four or five weak areas

but there really are 200 plus topics on FAR. So for four or five topics, you know, you might see anywhere

from two to five questions. That's not going to ruin your score. But what would ruin your score is neglecting

the other 200 topics in the last two days. And then you get in there and see a bunch of very otherwise

simple questions that you just cannot remember because you didn't refresh everything really quickly the last two days

That is the point of this strategy. Again, the overall overarching idea

with our methods or framework is constant repeat coverage of everything. Repeat coverage is king for the CPA exams

So spend most of those two days doing this strategy. Two sets of 30

Yeah, two sets of 30 cumulative multiple choice questions followed by one set of five to seven practice sims

That makes one. I keep saying sets individually. That makes one set

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

Work through those. You obviously read the explanations as you go through each set

of practice questions and then practice sims. Keep making flashcards for things as necessary

things you keep missing or you keep forgetting. After you've studied six to eight hours, you're not done

Take our review notes and read those from start to finish. That should only take an hour or two, really

They're just really not that hard to read through all the way. Then you start working through your decks of

your flashcards that you created through the study process. The key idea here is that in these two days, you want

to get through all of your flashcard decks at least three or four times

Now, whether you're using Brainscape or Quizlet, they have a function where you can

kind of rate yourself on each flashcard. And if you rate yourself that you know this, you got

it right the first time, you'll see that one less and less. So you obviously do want to spend time

reviewing the ones that even though they're all technically your weak areas based on how I've described it

You will have the weaker of the weakest and that's what you're using your flashcard time for is rating

yourself throughout your flashcard decks. The apps will do that on its own

You just want to work through your flashcards three or four times in these last two days

And if you have time to do even more than that, the more the better, because if you've been diligent about the flashcards

those contain your personal weak areas and you've written them in your own words

That's a million times better than going back to the review course, redoing a lesson that's written by an accounting

professor, you know, that just uses all this technical language that's harder to understand

If you've done the flashcards right, these are better than gold these last two days before an exam

So the last thing, the morning of the exam, try to get to the test center one to two hours early

I really felt like this, this even though this is a small

but the very last step of things you can control before you sit down in the testing center

I would get there and I would sit in my car and I would go through my flashcard decks again

I would at least get through the whole thing one more time. I would just burn through my flashcards on my phone

If you've been sorting them by how well you know them, I just mentioned this, you know, skip the ones that you definitely

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

you still have a half hour, read through our review notes one last time. And as a last ditch effort, maybe go

specifically in the review notes to the topics that you're just not that comfortable with

But this is the best thing you can do the morning of the exam. I wouldn't really recommend doing anything heavy like

you know, getting up super early. Sleep is a really important thing the night before the exam

So prioritize that. And then this is fairly light, this flashcard in your car

idea. That's fairly low impact on your brain. So this is kind of the most I would recommend, but I do feel like

this is very important. And all four of my sections, when I did this, I was

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

I seriously saw like four or five questions that I knew I had just, you know, within the last 20 minutes

seen on my flashcards on my phone. And, you know, I went four for four

after implementing this whole study plan that you've just watched the videos on

So, again, think of this whole thing, everything we've been through as a big recipe and every ingredient matters

All of these little strategies all put together. You can customize, leave a few

things out that might be small. But the key ideas, the key ingredients

you want to implement those in your study routine. And so, you know, here we are at the end of these videos

I hope you found this very helpful. Now, here's another thing that's very important for you to

realize. We went through all these videos. You're probably thinking, OK, this makes sense

I, I more or less know exactly what to do now. I would recommend that in the first two to three weeks, as you

start implementing this stuff on a daily basis, you do come back

and watch some of these videos over and there will be new levels of understanding unlocked as you have now

gone out and actually tried to apply these things. It's the same idea, again, as riding a bike

You can have somebody watch videos over and over about how to ride a bike, but they will not

understand it really until they sit on the bike and actually try it and tip over a few times

So there's theory and then there's the application and the levels of understanding in the theory are unlocked as you go through

the levels of actually applying it in real life. So do that to where you are

you know, you perfect your own study process. So best of luck with your studying and make sure to email me

when you pass your CPA exams