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My wife is starting to study for her CPA exams so we're looking for some feedback from you CPA professionals who are already in the field. What materials have you used to pass all 4 exams? Allot of times it's a combination of different material. Please provide you expert advice.
#2? I'd suggest group study sessions with the other recent grads at the CPA firm where they all work.
The better firms will assign one of the junior partners to lead these.
Go to “another71” and purchase ninja. It’s by far the cheapest one (or at least was). I used the bigger write ups, then the condensed “ninja notes” and the multiple choice questions. Their analytics start recognizing the parts you know and don’t know, and it will start feeding you more questions from areas you’re weaker in. You could also look at the data and force feed yourself questions manually from your trouble spots. Their modules were way closer to what the actual exam questions look like in my opinion. Before the exams, I would roll through these questions thousands of times. I forget the ratio, but basically if you could score in the 70s in ninja, I think I generally got 10 higher on the real exam. It was a pretty good proxy to know if you were ready. If you were scoring in the 50s or 60s still, you had to hit a couple thousand more questions.
I also used Becker. This is significantly more expensive. In my opinion, their materials are much much more detailed to the point I feel I wasted tons of time learning things that weren’t on the exams in my tests. However, here and there it had nuggets that showed up and made it worth it. Becker was also worth it for their large amount of “simulations” for the simulation portion of the test (aka the non multiple choice) Their cast of characters (Tim, Peter) as instructors are excellent. Cheesy and entertaining...but you’ll remember it on test day. “My Legs”...lol
Others swear by Wiley plus, Gleim, and Rogers?And one other I can’t remember, but I didn’t use these solutions.
No matter what main solution you go with, supplement it with ninja. I can’t recommend it enough.
Then say goodbye to your wife for the next year to 1.5 years.
Last edited by Thatsright19; 10-31-2019 at 03:31 AM..
Go to “another71” and purchase ninja. It’s by far the cheapest one (or at least was). I used the bigger write ups, then the condensed “ninja notes” and the multiple choice questions. Their analytics start recognizing the parts you know and don’t know, and it will start feeding you more questions from areas you’re weaker in. You could also look at the data and force feed yourself questions manually from your trouble spots. Their modules were way closer to what the actual exam questions look like in my opinion. Before the exams, I would roll through these questions thousands of times. I forget the ratio, but basically if you could score in the 70s in ninja, I think I generally got 10 higher on the real exam. It was a pretty good proxy to know if you were ready. If you were scoring in the 50s or 60s still, you had to hit a couple thousand more questions.
I also used Becker. This is significantly more expensive. In my opinion, their materials are much much more detailed to the point I feel I wasted tons of time learning things that weren’t on the exams in my tests. However, here and there it had nuggets that showed up and made it worth it. Becker was also worth it for their large amount of “simulations” for the simulation portion of the test (aka the non multiple choice) Their cast of characters (Tim, Peter) as instructors are excellent. Cheesy and entertaining...but you’ll remember it on test day. “My Legs”...lol
Others swear by Wiley plus, Gleim, and Rogers?And one other I can’t remember, but I didn’t use these solutions.
No matter what main solution you go with, supplement it with ninja. I can’t recommend it enough.
Then say goodbye to your wife for the next year to 1.5 years.
Thanks for taking the time for a proper feedback. Our approach is to go with Becker 2019 book and Ninja monthly subscription.
Yes, Ninja. $67 a month. I have the Gleim books too but I use Ninja because it is so accessible. I have Notes in my car and at work, blitz vids on my phone, I do 2 hours of MCQs each morning before work, SIMS on weekends either at home or on laptop. I can log into the Ninja dojo from anywhere.
I take FAR on the 18th and I am following the Ninja way so I'll be rewriting notes allllll next weekend.
No one does study groups- the info is better when it is personalized to your learning style and abilities like Ninja and some others.
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I used the Becker books and software but did not attend the live courses or watch any of the videos. I passed all exams in either the 80's or 90's. I studied one month for each section.
I had a number of friends who did the live session and honestly it seemed like a lot of wasted time vs. just reading the test and taking the practice questions. It's been a while since I've done it but as I recall there were something like 500 practice questions for each section in the software but they also had like another 500 "extra questions" for each section. I just did all 1,000 questions for each section and by the time I got to the end I was ready.
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