My big accomplishment for week four was bringing my average hours studied per day (for the total time) up to 1 hour. It was really bad when it was below that! If I study 3 hours a day for the next 28 days, I can bring that average up to 2 hours a day.

Estimating Study Time Needed before CPA Exam

I have watched 6 hours of Roger CPA videos, so I have about 24 hours of video left. So far I’ve spent about 2.5 hours doing homework problems for every hour of “class.”

I estimate I have about 84 hours of “learning” still to get through. This part of the process involves watching the Roger CPA Review videos, plus going through the “homework” problems. In this stage, as I do each problem, I check the answer and read the explanation for how to do it. This is part of “learning” because reading the explanations teaches me how to do the problem properly.

After that stage, I still need to:

• Review all this information, because I definitely don’t have it down very well yet for the parts I’ve already completed the homework problems for.
• Practice the simulation problems
• Drill-go through practice tests and get up to speed.

I’m not sure how long the next parts will take me, but I have about 25 or so days left before I take the exam, so studying for only 2 hours a day from now on will just barely get me through the learning stage. Therefore, I’ll be studying a lot more hours a day from now on.

FAR seems to be the longest section to study for, judging by the fact that Roger has more video hours for this section than any other. At least for the next section I take I’ll know earlier how many hours of study I need to budget for!

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I spent 3.5 hours on CPA exam studying today. That’s the most I’ve done in one day so far, but after doing some calculations regarding how much time I need to do the first run through of practice problems, I think this amount of time studying is going to have to become my normal routine until July 29th!

I mentioned previously that one of the ways I’m motivating myself to study is to “pay” myself per hour for the exam. For each hour I study, I set some money aside for a new laptop. Since I’m hoping to be able to buy this at the end of the month, I really need to step up the hours!

I have so much I’ve been wanting to get together to post on here (apart from the CPA exam stuff) that I just haven’t had the time to put together! I’m going to carve out some time to put serious work into one of those ideas in the next two days though, and I’m excited about it!

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