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Here's how long you should study for each section of the CPA exam
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This is another question that I get asked all the time. Now, whether it's four weeks or five weeks or six weeks per section
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it's hard for me to say this is exactly how long you should study for each section
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But what I can say for sure is that it should definitely not be more than two months per section
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There's a bunch of problems with spacing your sections way too far apart
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The first problem will be you don't have any sense of pressure. It's easy for you to feel like, oh, well, I'm too tired to study today
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It's not a big deal because I still have three months left or I still have eight weeks left
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Your study window should be small enough that you feel a sense of pressure to the point where you realize that every single day matters
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So what I typically tell our clients is you want to spend four to five weeks on sections like audit and BEC
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and then maybe five to six weeks, maybe seven weeks on FAR or REG
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The other big problem with spacing sections too far apart is you're leaving way too long for you to just forget
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all the stuff that you've studied previously. Now, again, if those timelines sound really short
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it really comes down to how quickly and efficiently you can move through the material, obviously
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And when you're following our study strategies, which you can learn from one of those free study trainings at our main website at superfastcpa.com
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once you attend one of those trainings, you'll be able to see why it's possible to move through the material that quickly
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and still have a week or maybe even two weeks left over as your final review
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But again, of course, I don't recommend the regular final review. What most people do is
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spend those two weeks going over their weak areas. There's a much more efficient way of doing it and we have other videos on that on our YouTube channel
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So to recap, I would say for the harder sections or the ones that have more material such as FAR and REG
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you want to go somewhere between five to eight weeks and I would say eight weeks being the absolute maximum
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And then for Audit and BEC, somewhere between four and five weeks with maybe six weeks being the absolute maximum. Because again
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you want the timeline to be short enough that you feel the pressure or you
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realize that each day matters and that it's not too long in between
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so that you give yourself too much time to just forget all these things that you've covered
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But again, the re-review strategies you'll learn on one of our free trainings solves the retention problem
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including doing the idea of mini sessions, which basically means using something like our study tools
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to study throughout the day instead of wasting time on social media in little five minute chunks all throughout the day
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While you're studying for your exam, you instead replace that with extra CPA review
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which you can do effectively from your phone using things like our study tools
