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tamela
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I am a new CPA canidate and have recently received my first Yaeger Home Study. I am taking BEC first and I was hoping to get some guidance from you veterans out there. 

How do you study? Do you quickly go thru the videos then go back and really study? Do you learn each module before moving on to the next one? Do you takes lots of notes or mainly focus on the MC questions?

I will say it has been quite a few years since I have had any accounting classes. I want to use my time wisely and come up with an effectve study method. 

Thanks!!

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Lack of responses probably mean there's no perfect way to do this, and it's kind of an individual process.  I've finishing up my third Yaeger course, and I've evolved into a methodology to:  1.  Review the material briefly  2.  Watch the video, and take notes as appropriate  3.  Do the MC's and Sims until you've got them mastered

For some of the more difficult material, I have outlined the Wiley text material, but I don't do that often.

After I finish, I do go back through an individual "cram" process, for three weeks prior to the test.  I'll try to recover/redo all the difficult subject areas in that time.

Good Luck.  This is quite a process...



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Thanks for the response! I was beginning to feel a little neglected!

In my mind I had kinda thought that I would do exactly as you mentioned. Go thru the videos quickly and take notes on any additional info not found in the book and comments. Then go back and really study each module with reading and MC's until I feel as though I am ready to move on to the next one.

I was trying to take notes in a notebook but I felt as I was just rewriting the whole dang book! So that is not working out.

Thanks again for the info.

 

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After two tests I'm just now figuring how the material
best works for me.

1) I go through the videos and mark the book/handout (red
pen) as we go through it..making side notes of anything I
find difficult, important, mental notes.

2) Then go through the MCQ's - figuring out why I got the
question wrong and understanding the answer, dont move
forward until I understand that concept. I like that the
answers are broken up into subsections of the module.

3) All along the MCQ's I'm flipping through the
FocusNotes and making notes, highlighting in there, those
will be my final review notes.

4) Lastly I go over the questions/concepts I had the most
trouble with again...in the last week of review and do
the Wiley Test Bank questions as time allows.

I'm a bit OCD, so I rank the importance (weight) of each
module and do the MCQ's in that order instead of the
order the videos were done in. I've totalled up the
number of questions in all modules, the time I have
alloted until my test, how many I have to do each day
etc. Only being this detailed can I keep to a
structure...but its working better than when I was just
all over the place.

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WOW! Thanks Tropical!
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