[RandomAlt]

I’m using CPAexel. I’m currently on the “Dollar Value LIFO” section. CPAexcel suggest that the “Estimated Average Total Study Time” for this section is 21 minutes.

I don’t see how that can possibly be. This is a complicated multiple step formula. And that is just memorizing the formula, not even the theory behind it. I’m got the basics notes down. Why its used, simplified formula, but I just feel if I spend more than an hour on this topic I’m spending too long. The NINJA notes don’t even mention it once.

I’m going to stick with my notes, move on, and come back to it after I’ve gotten through all of the material,

Who else feels the same way? Do you have a different topic like this one you feel the same about?

FAR - [10/07/2013 --> 66] [07/07/2014 --> 86]
BEC - [08/31/2014 --> 86]
AUD - [11/24/2014 --> 88]
REG - [02/14/2015 --> 92]

[Prove You Are A Human]

I had an instructor in college who had an exchange like this with a very bright kid in class:

Instructor: “So this is how you do this https://forum.another71.com/forum/cpa-exam-study/journey/topic/do-you-brush-off-a-complicated-topic-or-stick-with-it-untill-you-get-it/reply/548960/.”

Student: “I'm not quite sure I understand.”

Instructor explains topic in different way. Student doesn't understand. Instructor explains in yet another way. Student doesn't understand. Topic is simple, instructor spends over 90 minutes trying to get this student to understand. Student doesn't.

Instructor: “Look, you're a great student, you understand the topics easily. You know accounting. However, in your academic career, there are some topics you just won't get for this reason or that. This is that topic for you. Give it up.”

The point here is I think it's natural for some things to not stick. I had this happen when I was studying. I still tried, but at some point you have to look at the cost/benefit relationship of that topic. You could spend 10 hours trying to hammer home one small point, that may or may not be tested, but you will sacrifice other topics.

I think if it's not a major concept and you don't have too many items like that, it should be safe to try to grasp a very rudimentary understanding of it and then move on.

CPA

[Prove You Are A Human]

I had an instructor in college who had an exchange like this with a very bright kid in class:

Instructor: “So this is how you do this https://forum.another71.com/forum/cpa-exam-study/journey/topic/do-you-brush-off-a-complicated-topic-or-stick-with-it-untill-you-get-it/reply/548977/.”

Student: “I'm not quite sure I understand.”

Instructor explains topic in different way. Student doesn't understand. Instructor explains in yet another way. Student doesn't understand. Topic is simple, instructor spends over 90 minutes trying to get this student to understand. Student doesn't.

Instructor: “Look, you're a great student, you understand the topics easily. You know accounting. However, in your academic career, there are some topics you just won't get for this reason or that. This is that topic for you. Give it up.”

The point here is I think it's natural for some things to not stick. I had this happen when I was studying. I still tried, but at some point you have to look at the cost/benefit relationship of that topic. You could spend 10 hours trying to hammer home one small point, that may or may not be tested, but you will sacrifice other topics.

I think if it's not a major concept and you don't have too many items like that, it should be safe to try to grasp a very rudimentary understanding of it and then move on.

CPA

[Anonymous]

I skip it and come back to it later. A lot of times something said later will make me understand it whereas I couldn't understand it before.

[Anonymous]

I skip it and come back to it later. A lot of times something said later will make me understand it whereas I couldn't understand it before.

[MintsRGood]

Take this from someone who received a 74 on their last section: Don't skip or brush off ANYTHNG. If you don't understand a topic, look to another source for a different explanation!

REG: 75 DONE 🙂
AUD: 61, 71, 68, 92 DONE 🙂
BEC: 76 DONE 🙂
FAR: 72, 74, 79 DONE 🙂
Licensed Michigan CPA 🙂
-Some people dream of success...others wake up and work hard for it!!!
-The cowards never start and the weak die along the way!
-You better work, b***h!
-Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.-JFK

[MintsRGood]

Take this from someone who received a 74 on their last section: Don't skip or brush off ANYTHNG. If you don't understand a topic, look to another source for a different explanation!

REG: 75 DONE 🙂
AUD: 61, 71, 68, 92 DONE 🙂
BEC: 76 DONE 🙂
FAR: 72, 74, 79 DONE 🙂
Licensed Michigan CPA 🙂
-Some people dream of success...others wake up and work hard for it!!!
-The cowards never start and the weak die along the way!
-You better work, b***h!
-Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.-JFK

[UHC2005]

If I bomb a section, I'll usually take screenshots of what the questions that I missed with the explanation and then add that explanation to my notes. Then I run through the MCQs again to make sure I can reason through the question via the fact nugget that I wrote down.

Using Ninja MCQ, NINJA Notes, Audio, Flashcards and BLITZ, and 2014 Wiley Text

FAR - (61,63)
AUD - (68)

Keep Calm and RTMFQ

Accountant, what is best in life? To crush your MCQs, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentation of their SIMS!

[UHC2005]

If I bomb a section, I'll usually take screenshots of what the questions that I missed with the explanation and then add that explanation to my notes. Then I run through the MCQs again to make sure I can reason through the question via the fact nugget that I wrote down.

Using Ninja MCQ, NINJA Notes, Audio, Flashcards and BLITZ, and 2014 Wiley Text

FAR - (61,63)
AUD - (68)

Keep Calm and RTMFQ

Accountant, what is best in life? To crush your MCQs, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentation of their SIMS!

[nbad311]

Oh man, I was definitely a brusher-off'er, hoping to not see 1 question on those topics come test time. Some exams I got burned because of it, and I think my 75 scores were the result of me STILL refusing to put in the time to learn the topics and just getting sorta (really) lucky on test day!

DON'T BE ME

REG - 65, 70, 80!
BEC - 35, 62, 79!
AUD - 73, 75!
FAR - 65, 73, 70, 75! DONE.

[nbad311]

Oh man, I was definitely a brusher-off'er, hoping to not see 1 question on those topics come test time. Some exams I got burned because of it, and I think my 75 scores were the result of me STILL refusing to put in the time to learn the topics and just getting sorta (really) lucky on test day!

DON'T BE ME

REG - 65, 70, 80!
BEC - 35, 62, 79!
AUD - 73, 75!
FAR - 65, 73, 70, 75! DONE.

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