80/20 the CPA Exams
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May 3, 2024
How to 80/20 your CPA study process.
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I think you'll find this mind map really interesting
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What if you could 80-20 the CPA exams and the CPA study process
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Now, of course, by 80-20, I'm referring to the Italian economist Pareto, the Pareto
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principle, which is that 80 percent of any endeavor or process, 80 percent of the results
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will come from 20 percent of the effort. So this has been a big topic, you know, in like business books the last few years
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If you could then identify and focus on this 20 percent, you can get more of the result
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that you're looking for, whatever that is, whatever the process is. If you focus on the 20 percent, you can get more result from less time and effort and resources
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Now, for the CPA study process, if you were to identify this 20 percent, focus your study
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time on this 20 percent, you can have much shorter study sessions and be getting better results
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So what is this 20 percent? First, who am I, why would you listen to me
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My name is Nate. I'm the founder of SuperfastCPA. Maybe you've seen some of our other videos
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Maybe you've gone to our website a couple times. We help busy CPA candidates pass their exams through study strategies and study tools
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At this point, we've helped over 30,000 CPA candidates with their CPA exams and their
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CPA study process. Now this 20 percent idea, this is from my own CPA story
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The very shortened version is that I studied the normal way. That's what I refer to it now as
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Studied the normal way, where you watch every video lecture, read every chapter, then try
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to struggle through the questions. I spent my first three months doing that
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I go in and I managed to just fail far. So out of necessity at this point, I am working full time in public accounting after failing
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that first section. Out of necessity, I just cut 80 percent of what I was doing
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And I followed just some of my own ideas for study. After that, I passed all four exams in one three month period
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This was while working full time and two of those were during busy season
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And I am not a genius. This was strictly due, of course, looking back, this was strictly due to this approach
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of focusing on the 20 percent of things that work the best
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And that's all I spent my time doing. And I got completely different results than I did the first time, obviously
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So what were those strategies and the framework? The process and the strategies, they really do need to be walked through to be understood
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And it has more material than we can fit in this short video
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So what we have is a free one hour training class where you will learn our study framework
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from start to finish. What you're really going to learn, the key idea here is how to have a two hour main study
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session with your review course where you will get better results in two hours a day
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than someone studying four to five hours a day the normal way
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So after this training, you'll know exactly what to do each day when you do sit down to study
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No more feeling stuck or constantly feeling like you're just spinning your wheels and
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the days and weeks are going by where you're really not making any progress
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You will know how to systematically work through each lesson and commit the key parts to memory
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over time. Now, again, this works with any review course. You don't need to switch to our materials or switch your review course
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It doesn't matter what review course you're using. You can take these strategies and apply them tomorrow or today to your daily study sessions
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What you're really going to learn how to do is quickly dissect every lesson up front
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meaning quickly figure out what is testable or most likely to be tested from that lesson
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The fastest way of learning and understanding that testable material, how to remember what
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you've studied instead of slowly forgetting it as the weeks go by
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And you'll be using the video lectures and the text or your chapters much differently
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after going through this training. You'll also learn a 30 minute a day strategy, which is part of this two hours, by the way
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So it fits inside of the two hours. A 30 minute a day strategy to help you get better at everything you've studied along
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the way. Again, instead of just slowly forgetting everything you've spent so much time learning in the
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first place, which is what happens when you just move through lesson by lesson in a linear format
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Now, you still do that. You just do it in a much different way
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And all of this will make sense and kind of click for you once you see how this works
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in the training. Now these trainings only take an hour. So what I always say is this is an hour that can literally save you months and months of
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time and frustration. But when you when you attend one of these trainings, we do have some bonuses, whatever
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you want to call them, kind of some study aids to take away from the training
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First, you'll get a free set of our digital flashcards. So it's over 700 flashcards from all four sections
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You can use them on desktop or mobile and they are customizable, so you can edit them
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with some of your own wording, which is part of our study framework, which you'll learn
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on the training. You'll also get a mind map that summarizes everything that we will end up covering on
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the training. So you have that for reference afterwards. You will also get a copy of the slides from the training to refer back to so that you
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can make it all make sense as you actually put it into practice
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You'll also get over 500 free CPA exam questions from all four sections
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And we're adding to these all the time. So how to register
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You can go to superfastcpa.com training. What you'll be doing is picking an upcoming time because this is in webinar format
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So go to that link. The easiest way is to just click the link or the banner or the button that's on or below
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this video. Go to the registration page, pick an upcoming time that works for you
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Choose a time when you can attend on a desktop or, you know, like a laptop with no interruptions
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This is honestly one hour that will save you literally months and months of time and
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frustration and likely hundreds of dollars on exam fees by avoiding failing sections
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when you see how this format works. Now, again, the biggest thing you'll take away from this is a proven, almost surgical
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process of how to approach every lesson so that you stop getting stuck by just kind of
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jumping into each lesson and each lesson kind of unfolds differently. So know exactly how to approach and dissect every lesson, commit the key parts to memory
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as as the weeks go by. And that 30 minute strategy that helps you get better and better at everything you've
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studied in the in the past. So that by test day, you have sky high retention and your comprehension and understanding of
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the material is at its peak. You will find this very helpful
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So I hope to see you on a training. So do one of those options, go to the registration page, pick one of the upcoming training times
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and I will see you on the training
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