Motivated wrote: Quote: I studied 2 weeks for each part while working and living my life like normally. The first two parts I was studying during Deloitte Audit busy season. No offense, you need better work ethic, and maybe more intelligence so you study less for something so easy. Now I'm discouraged. He's making it seem like CPA exam is the easiest thing in the World to study for, and the fact that I pretty much gave up my social life for this is depressing. Am I just dumb? Am I putting in too much time for something "so easy"?

If the guy really IS a Deloitte employee, that sounds like the study schedule of someone who is re-testing failed exam parts, after previously giving an insufficient effort to studying before taking them for the first time a few months earlier.  Or maybe he has a prototype model of Mr. Data's positronic brain.

I note he didn't say he passed.  He didn't even say he actually took the exams.  And as for that "studied during the Deloitte Audit busy season" part, he also omitted mentioning whether he went to work on those days.  In fact, I didn't see any claim that he was a Deloitte employee at all.

His grammar leaves a lot to be desired, too, so the chance that he could have earned a passing grade on the correspondence tabs is pretty low.

So what you have here is a **Performance Not Typical** jackass with an ego problem and an insecurity complex, who was an unemployed Deloitte-employee wanna-be, whose two weeks spent studying and goofing off with his buddies coincided with the Deloitte Audit season, who never actually took the exams.

And you're getting worried that you can't measure up?  Don't.

Then its easier than ever !