What's the Best Overall CPA Review Course?

So what is the best overall CPA review course

Is there one CPA review course that is significantly more effective than all the others to help you pass your CPA exams

I'm Nate with Superfast CPA and I get asked this question all the time

So I'm going to surprise you here and say there is not one review course that is significantly better than all the other review courses

Assuming you have a main review course, any of the ones that you've heard of, Becker

Glyme, Wiley, Roger, Surgent, any of the main review courses have the information that you need to pass

So in this video, what we're actually going to cover is the three main things that are much, much more important than what review course you're using

So the first thing is, of course, your daily routine. All right

Your $3,000 review course, it doesn't do you any good. if you're not using it consistently on a daily basis. Now, if you struggle with consistency

what is likely going on is you are setting too big of a goal for yourself. If you're trying to

study four to five hours every day and you're working full time, that is incredibly hard to do

It's just almost impossible to find and effectively study for four to five hours every single day

So the first and main thing that you can do to make it more likely that you will be consistent

this is almost counterintuitive, it's to make your main study sessions shorter

In fact, what we teach our clients is how to have a two-hour main study session

And on work days, that's all the time that you need to spend with your review course

when you know how to study effectively. Now, going into all those study strategies and how to use the MCQs most effectively

how to use your video lectures most effectively, or should say strategically, that would take a lot

longer than this video. But that is why we have our free one-hour training webinars where we will

walk you through our study framework, which is how to use your review course, doesn't matter

what review course it is, how to use your review course much, much more efficiently and much more

effectively. You can sign up for one of those at our website at superfastcpa.com or by clicking

the button on this video or there should be a link down in the description. Now if you have that covered and you dedicated you regimented you figure out how to study each day consistently The second thing that is much much more important than what review course you using is your study methods

Is your studying effective? Do you have an actual strategic way that you move through and dissect each lesson

You figure out what is most important from that lesson in the same context that you need to know how to apply

it on test day is your studying effective? Because again, it is very possible, and this happens all the

time. I just need to mention the pass rates or the fail rates for the CPA exams. Everyone out there

for the most part, has a main review course. You know, like I said, Becker, Wiley, Glym, Roger

one of those. And everyone out there more or less follows the same format of watch the video

read the chapter, do the practice questions. But the pass rates are right around 50%. Not great. It is not

just about hard work or the hours put it. When you learn how to use the resources in your review

course strategically, then it is much easier to be highly effective and highly efficient. So you can

have two people that are both putting in, let's say, two hours a day study. The first person

because they don't know any better, they just turn on the video, try to watch the whole thing

If it's a 20-minute video, they might have to pause it, re-watch it several times before they feel like they understand it

So that 20-minute video can easily take one to two hours just to get through the video

And then person over here, they jump straight into the questions. They strategically go through the questions to see, okay, what are the key things that keep being asked about

or what are the key formulas that are mentioned, how do these calculations actually work in question

format? These two people can get totally different results from the same two hours. So that is just

obviously the big difference in knowing how to study strategically. So again, we won't go into all

the specifics, the free study training webinars that I mentioned. The link is in the description

Those will walk you through the specifics of how we teach our clients how to study. All right, so let's

say that you do manage to study every single day you stick to your routine you get through all the lessons and your studying is pretty effective Now if you following the traditional study method you go through lesson by lesson You essentially trying to master each topic as you go through

Now, let's take FAR, for example. There are over 200 topics tested on FAR and these are dense technical topics

So you spend all this time up front to learn 200 different topics

But you are now six to eight weeks removed from the stuff you covered in the beginning

Right. I mean, even two weeks is a long time. Because each day you're refilling your short-term memory with all new information on the next new lesson

So if you really think about that, that format does not make any sense

To go through lesson by lesson, cover 200 topics, difficult topics, and not look at anything that you've previously covered

and then try to basically relearn everything in a one to two week final review

So it's no wonder why so many candidates get into the exam and start seeing questions

and realize I've forgotten tons of what I've studied. I know this topic, but I just can't grab that one piece of information from my brain

because you're six to eight weeks removed from when you studied it the first time

So the solution to this, again, this is going to sound so. obvious when I say it, is to build re-review into your daily process. So you spend a portion of your

study time each day going back and re-hitting, repracticing all the topics that you've previously

been through. This is what we teach our clients to do. This is called retrieval practice

And that's not something that I came up with. But it's proven to be, if you Google retrieval

practice that's proven to be the most effective form of learning if you're trying to learn and

assimilate and retain new complex topics. The basic idea with retrieval practice is to spend a certain

amount of time each day trying to pull previous information out of your own brain. And so you're

jumping back, covering topics, repracticing topics that you've already been through. And then

because our study tools are simplified and easier to understand they're designed to be used on the go

It like a workout for your brain in these same topics that you trying to learn so that you can apply them on test day There also a 30 exercise that you do with your review course to end your daily two

study session. Again, we cover that in detail in our free study training webinars

So if you've never watched one of these study training webinars, it is one hour that will

literally save you months and months of time and frustration from trying to have to figure this

stuff out on your own. So to recap, the three things that are much more important than what

specific review course you're using is your daily routine and making sure it's consistent

If you're struggling to be consistent, make your daily routine easier, make it shorter

And once you get consistent with a shorter main session, you will have a lot of momentum because

you're being consistent and you can start to add more time once you're consistent with a two-hour

daily session if you choose to, but a lot of our clients never add more than the two hours in the

morning with their main review course. The second thing is your study methods. When you sit down to

study, how do you actually study? How do you use your review course? It's very possible to spend

two, three, four hours every day and not really accomplish that much. So if you're going to

invest months of your life into this process, into these exams, you want to be sure that when

you do sit down to study that it's highly efficient and highly effective. Again, that is the

main thing you will learn how to do on our free study training webinars. And number three is to

build re-review into your daily process instead of spending eight weeks mastering topics one by one

but then slowly forgetting half of all this stuff you've spent so much time learning. Instead

you make daily re-review part of your process so that you're constantly improving on all

topics as you get closer to exam day. That obviously makes so much more sense. And again

you will learn our two main strategies on how to do that easily without having to find a bunch of

extra study time just by going through your normal day on those free study training webinars

So you can click the button on this video or the link down in the description to sign up for

one of those free trainings. You will not regret the hour that you invest to attend one of those free webinars