I feel as if summer time would be an odd time to study for the cpa exam but if I do 1 - 2 hours Monday - Friday studying then 4 hours on the weekend will I be ok I want take 9 months to do this so 2.5 months for each

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It can work. But honestly 2.5 months is a long time to study for one exam.

Each exam is 50-150 hours of studying depending on your method and prior knowledge.

Everyone has different approaches, just learn and find out what works for you and good luck.

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That is totally reasonable if you stick to your plan. I finished all exams within a six month period, as did most of my peer group in our first year at GT. Good luck!!

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If you studied like that you’d be ready for BEC in 3 weeks. You are a tax manager so REG maybe 4-6 weeks depending on how much knowledge transfer from the daily work you do to test material there is. AUD I think would be 4 weeks as well and FAR probably 6-8 weeks. If you have a question bank just hammer out MCs do test corrections on each section and read why answers are right/wrong for each. Only spend time on video lectures/reading textbook for topics you struggle with (after going through MCs several times). Then do all the simulation questions. Once you’ve done all MC and sims for a section take a practice test, then do a bunch more MCs on specific sections of the practice test you struggled with (less than 65-70%). Do that for all the practice tests and you should be good for the actual test. This is definitely the most efficient way to study for the CPA

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Doable, I did something similar. For the last exam I was burnt out, so I only studied two weeknights. Still passed.

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That seems reasonable.

Yeah that seems like a good plan!

Guys I really appreciate all the support and insight

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