Comments on: Strategies: Multiple Choice Questions on the CPA Exam http://www.accountingelf.com/strategies-multiple-choice-questions-on-the-cpa-exam/ a look at the CPA exam and recruiting Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:31:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Patricia http://www.accountingelf.com/strategies-multiple-choice-questions-on-the-cpa-exam/comment-page-1/#comment-2147 Patricia Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:31:51 +0000 http://www.accountingelf.com/?p=394#comment-2147 Hi, yes I do...I was going crazy trying to figure out how to study for this test. The problem is, that the CPA review is not a CPA study. You can't study for this test like you did back in college for a test on material covered in class. It's not a textbook approach (read the chapter and answer the questions)...there is too much information in one module to do it that way...you'll never remember. This is a REVIEW...which means it is info you already know from having gone to school and RE-Viewing it...looking at it again...so...my approach is as follows and it is working very well: Do all the questions in a chapter first. Spend about 1 - 1 1/2 min on each one. Yes...the first round will take a while. For Cash, Marketable Securities, etc.. it was about 2.48 hours the first round. Then see what you got right or wrong. The answers in the back of the section tell you what questions correspond to what subsections...so if questions 1-6 were on Cash...and you got 3 of them wrong...then you go back to the subsection of "cash" and read and take notes or make flashcards on it. Then go back to that set of questions 1-6 and do them again, this time knowing what you just read. Then you'll understand better and get the questions right. Do that for each set of questions for a section that you did wrong. The next day, re-do the questions again as a review/refresher. Then go on to the next section. Try it...it works for me...cuts the time in almost 1/2! Hi, yes I do…I was going crazy trying to figure out how to study for this test. The problem is, that the CPA review is not a CPA study. You can’t study for this test like you did back in college for a test on material covered in class. It’s not a textbook approach (read the chapter and answer the questions)…there is too much information in one module to do it that way…you’ll never remember.
This is a REVIEW…which means it is info you already know from having gone to school and RE-Viewing it…looking at it again…so…my approach is as follows and it is working very well:

Do all the questions in a chapter first. Spend about 1 – 1 1/2 min on each one. Yes…the first round will take a while. For Cash, Marketable Securities, etc.. it was about 2.48 hours the first round. Then see what you got right or wrong. The answers in the back of the section tell you what questions correspond to what subsections…so if questions 1-6 were on Cash…and you got 3 of them wrong…then you go back to the subsection of “cash” and read and take notes or make flashcards on it. Then go back to that set of questions 1-6 and do them again, this time knowing what you just read. Then you’ll understand better and get the questions right. Do that for each set of questions for a section that you did wrong. The next day, re-do the questions again as a review/refresher. Then go on to the next section.

Try it…it works for me…cuts the time in almost 1/2!

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