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I'm Nate with SuperfastCPA, and in this post, instead of giving you a ambiguous overview of the different review courses, we're going to cover why most of the features and benefits that you see from the different review courses don't really matter at all or why they won't actually help you pass your exams any faster.
In contrast to that, we'll go over the 2 or 3 features that your chosen review course absolutely must have. And some of the… some of these features aren't included in some review courses, and a lot of times, this isn't even something you hear talked about in the discussion about how to choose a review course. So, then we… as we go through those 2 things and narrow things down, at the end, we will give you a simple 3-step process for identifying the absolute best review course for you personally. So, let's get started.
We're going to cover why the review
course rankings or those review sites that they don't really give you the whole
story or they give you too much of the story and they just talk incessantly
about all the little details from each review course, when really, it only
comes down to 2 or 3 things. We're going to cover the things that actually
matter, like I just said, and then there are things pushed as features that
really aren't that important. And by explaining what matters and what doesn't,
we'll also cover a decent amount of study strategy and how the elements of what
does matter fits into effective studying. We'll also cover a few things that
you've probably never heard about CPA Review courses in general, and that's
where we'll start.
So, first of all, here's the big secret that's not really a
secret, any full review course has the information that you need to pass. So,
any big-name review course that you've heard of, whether that's Becker, CPA
Excel, Roger, Sergeant, Glime, any of those has the tools that you would need
to pass; so in other words, you could pass with any review course. No review
course is 2 to $3000 better than any other review course, and the reason I say
that is I get a lot of emails about this where someone's like, “You know, I'm struggling
with this review course, the one I have. I heard that this other review course
is better for this,” and they just mention one very minor feature. Or sometimes
I'll… they'll email me and they've already done the deed, they… they ditched
the previous review course that they had already paid for and they paid another
2 to 3000 for the other review course that they thought was going to solve all
their problems.
Here's… here's the reality, your study process is going to
account for 90% of the results that you get, not what review course you're
using. No review course can give you the motivation and discipline to sit down
and study every day. There might be some incremental benefit to some of the
different features that each review course, you know, says makes them the best
or some of these minor features that one has and one doesn't, but again, any
major review course can get the job done. You and your study habits, or in other
words your study process, is what really matters.
Now, here's a few things that don't matter, any kind of
adaptive learning technology. I personally don't think it's a good idea to get
less exposure or to skip certain topics entirely based on some type of
diagnostic quiz or assessment. So, if you're not aware, the whole idea behind
this adaptive learning technology is whether it's all in the beginning, meaning
if you're studying for far, you take this pretty big assessment or kind of
diagnostic type quiz where it's anywhere from a dozen questions to a couple
hundred questions. And you take that and that, you know, it… based off the answers
you get right, it thinks that those are your strengths areas, and the stuff
that you get wrong, it thinks or your weak areas.
So, again, there are no magic features that make learning the CPA material easy, right? It's… it's all there, no matter how they present it, you still have to get to where you understand a topic, assimilate the topic, and retain that information in your brain until test day; that's the basic process, there's no getting around that. A review course’s published pass rate is another thing that you can safely ignore. Every single one of the main review courses claims to have pass rates higher than 90%, yet we know that across-the-board, pass rates of the real people taking the exams hovers around 50%. I'm not saying that the review courses are lying about this, but they pull these statistics from a certain group of people.
