 Hello everyone. Today I'm going to be going over four steps that's going to help you pass the CPA exam, regardless of which CPA exam review course you are using, regardless of which section you are studying for. In my opinion, as long as you follow those four steps, you should be well prepared to sit for the exam and get a pass and score. Let's go ahead and look at the first step, then I will discuss each one of them separately. The four steps are learn, review, practice, retain. I'm going to go through each step separately, explaining what tasks you should undertake each step and for what purpose and how is it going to benefit the following step. Let's go ahead and start with the learn step. Before you can review, you have to learn the material. When do you learn the material? For the CPA exam, you learn the material in college. When you take your college courses, this is when you learn the material. If you forgot what you learned, or you did not learn the material in college properly, or your college courses did not cover that topic, what do you have to do? The first step is learn. The learn step can be accomplished with farhatlectures.com. Farhat Lectures will teach you everything you need to know from zero. It's not only lectures, there are multiple choice, there are true, false, MCQs, and in some situation I have exercises. Now for the sake of illustration, I'm going to show you assuming you are studying for the FAR exam using Becker. Now I'm going to show you FAR exam using Becker. You could be studying with someone other than Becker, you could be studying for section other than FAR. Regardless, it always work the same way. Let me show you how to learn the material before you jump into the review step. So this is Farhat Lectures, which is Farhat Becker supplemental course. So this course is for FAR Becker. Now bear in mind, as I just mentioned, you can, I have courses for FAR, for example, other providers like Glyme, Surgeon, Miles, if you're studying for audit, RAG, BAR, TCP, it does not matter. Nevertheless, I'm going to show you the step for FAR Becker. So if you, once you are a member of Farhat Lectures, you have the course organized just like your CPA review course. For example, notice here, F1 Module 1 Balance Sheet, Income Statement, and Comprehensive Income. And what I have here is lessons, videos, true, false, multiple choice questions about, for example, the income statement. And this is how you will start. First, you will go with Farhat, you would learn F1 Module 1. And how do you learn it? You watch the lectures. And after you watch the lectures, I do also have quizzes. Notice here, the chapter quiz. If you click on the quiz, you have the quiz. And what's, what's the purpose of this quiz? The purpose of this quiz is to make sure you have learned the material. So you start the quiz and you will complete the quiz just like you would complete any quiz on your CPA review course. But this quiz is a learning step. I do have comprehensive tests, but this is to help you test what you have learned to make sure you have learned it. So notice here, this quiz has 12 questions. So each quiz, after you answer the question, you can check the answer, make sure you, it makes sense. The answer makes sense. Then if you have any questions, you can go underneath here and do what? And for example, you would say, number one, I did not understand it, blah, blah, blah. And we'll get back to you. So this is the learning step. So again, there are quizzes, lectures, and in some, in some circumstances, you have exercises. There are two false questions as well. You would utilize all these resources to learn F1 Module 1. So once you have learned F1 Module 1, you already completed the first step, which is the learning step. Now, how, what do you do next? After you learn, now you are going to review. Let's show you what you need to do to review. Under the review step, this is when you go to your CPA review course, whether it's backer, surgeon, miles, you were blind or any other CPA review course, either at this point, since you have learned, you can view their lectures. And if you want to save time, you can view them on speed mode. You can read the book or you can do both if you have time. But the most efficient way is to read the, read the book or read the notes. Now, if you have time, you view the lectures. How do you know if step one benefited you? When you are viewing the lectures, if it makes sense, if whatever that CPA review course provider is telling you, making sense, this is easy. I understand. It means step one did work for you. Things make sense. So this is step two. Excellent. We went through step one, we went through step two. Let's look at step three. Step three, what I called is the practice step. What does practice mean? Practice is, this is when you take the multiple choice questions of your course provider. You will take the multiple choice questions of becker, roger, wily, Glyne, surgeon, miles. You will take the multiple choice. I also have comprehensive tests on my website. I'm going to go back and show you the comprehensive test. Here you are testing yourself to see if learning and review did work for you. Is it paying off? What's the goal here? The goal is at this point you should be getting 80% on your first attempt on the multiple choice questions. Now you would do multiple choice as well as simulation. Now, yes, indeed, you're getting 80%. That's great. But what's more important is the 20% that you missed and doesn't have to be 20%. Could be 25. It could be 22. It could be 15. But whatever you missed, you have to investigate every single question. Why did you miss this question? Did you miss read the question? Did you miss read the answers? If that's the case, be careful. If you don't understand why, after seeing the solution, it's a problem. So what do you have to do? Now you're going to go back and blame either your course provider or FARHAT. Why didn't they explain this for me? What did I miss? Or they explain it and I missed it. But this is where you investigate every question. So learn, review, practice. We're not done yet. The fourth step is what I called retain. Here at this point, as you're going through step one, two and three, step one, two and three, you should be taking notes about your answers you get wrong, important concept, just like taking notes. You will need to take those notes and record them on your phone, on your iPhone or Google, Android, whatever phone you have as a voice note, voice note. It means what? It means you can listen to them on the go. Some people take it on a flashcard, nothing wrong with a flashcard, except when you're driving, you cannot listen to the flashcard. When you're at the gym, if you're using the treadmill, you're running in the park, you're taking a walk, it's hard to read the flashcards. If you have the notes, you could listen to the notes, to the audio notes. So take notes per chapter, per module, whatever you have to do, and use them on the days that you are tired. For example, sometime you're going to be very tired, you don't want to start new material. Sometime you're going to be very busy where you cannot, you just, you were very tired at work, busy. You might have some personal problem. You just, some days you just don't want to do anything. That's fine. At least you can review what you did. And sometime you might have to travel and be disconnected from the material for a week or two. You're not. If you have those audio notes, if you're traveling on the plane, traveling on the train, having a long commute, you could also listen to them. This way you will stay connected to the material and don't get them demoralized to come back. You will stay motivated. Now let me show you some common pitfalls that students do, that that's why they get frustrated and they cannot pass the exam. One of the common pitfall is they start with step two. Yes, you can start with step two. Assuming you graduated yesterday from college, assuming you understand the material and you remember everything, you can start step two, no problems whatsoever. In the absence of that, you will need to start in step one. Some people even start in step three. And this is really, really horrible in my opinion. And some providers, they advise you to start at step three. Very bad. Practice questions and learn through that. No. Practicing questions is not to teach you. Practicing multiple choice questions is to test yourself whether you know it or not. Not to learn. You want to test yourself before getting on the exam. And those multiple choice, those valuable multiple choice, they are most valuable when you take them the first time. If you retake them the second and the third time, they lost their effect. And this is where, again, FARHAT can help. How? Let me show you. Let me show you how FARHAT can help. In addition to your multiple choice questions, I do have comprehensive tests under each module. For example, this comprehensive test has AICPA questions. This comprehensive test is non-ICPA questions. For example, here, if we go to F2, F2 module 2 EPS, I have multiple choice questions inside the course. And I also have comprehensive test at the end of each session. So I have a test, CT comprehensive test for earnings per share. One AICPA questions and one just my questions, CPA questions. So you want to use those multiple choice questions effectively. So those CTs, you want to use them during phase two. During phase two. What I mean by phase two is during practice. Use them during practice because I have multiple choice inside the course and I have comprehensive test. Take the comprehensive test during the practice stage, during the practice stage. What I do is this. I can help you. I can help you pass the exam. So if you follow these steps, if you are a member of FARHAT Lectures, you're going to go through step one. You're going to benefit through step three. And we are here to support you throughout the way. Don't hesitate to try FARHAT Lectures. There's a two-day free trial. We are always here for you. Good luck. Invest in yourself. Invest in your CPA exam and stay safe.