Hi everyone, has anyone managed to pass the CPA exam in 2-3 months? I'm planning to take three months off to attempt all four exams before returning to work. I can dedicate 5-6 hours per day to studying. What study materials would you recommend?

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I basically did. Between 10/1-11/6, I passed FAR, AUD, BEC. Then REG studied for ~ 2 weeks. If you include the FAR study time idk if I would have done it in 3 months but pretty close. Also, I was working ~30 hours a week but did a few days PTO before each exam.

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I took FAR -10/1, AUD 10/22, BEC 11/06

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My coworker signed up for a summer program where they did over that period. Its expensive and you study 9-9. No work. Just study.

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What’s the summer program called

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I don’t think that’s possible but you can try.

Why?
I saw somewhere that a guy was spending 2hours per day studying and in four months passed the 4 exam

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