So, I was reading a post over at SmartCookie – CPA to Be about how she studies for the CPA exam. She mentioned spending time with a co-worker doing multiple choice questions and mentioned that they try to do at least 100 a night!

Now, I’m not sure how long that takes her, but I added up the hours I spent going over the first 100 multiple choice questions for the REG section of the CPA exam, and it took me over 3 hours to do those 100 problems! I definitely don’t have time to do 100 every night!

Now, I do what Roger suggested as a good CPA preparation tactic- I do the questions slowly and read each answer to understand the rules behind it, whether I got it right or wrong. I usually take some notes. I know I won’t remember it all, but I figure the notes will help a little bit of it stick in my head.

When I finally finished the slow round of multiple choice questions when I was studying for FAR, I never went back and did them over at a higher speed. (Roger suggests that you go back and do this, but I just didn’t have the motivation.) I did use the software to do timed practice questions, to make sure I could judge how quickly I needed to move on the real thing.

Anyone else out there who has a different approach to multiple choice questions?

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