Can I just say, I used Yeager and I wouldn’t recommend it IF you have been out of school for a while or have no real accounting experience. I was a non accounting major as well. They do not teach you. They sort of jump right in. I figured ok… Ill just read the book then. In my personal experience, I found the book to be awful. It jumped around. They jumped around. I jumped around. I was lost. To boot, I had issues with being able to access their student portal on my phone and after taking MCQ quizzes, realized their site was not mobile adaptive or my phone just wasn’t working with it. Basically, I could take MCQ’s all day, but if I wanted to see the answer and why I got it wrong, it was too big to fit on my phone and I could see nothing. I emailed them about that and the only answer I got was “those are old MCQ’s anyway”. There is one teacher that is amazing ( Cindy) and I didn’t mind the two men that taught but the only guy that “taught” was SO ANNOYING TO ME I wanted to whip my laptop across the room. They read from the book word for word and put answers to MCQ’s up on the board.
Again, its not their fault- its mine. They are a true review program. I realized in day 3 that the review program wasn’t for me, and I stuck to it. I shouldn’t have. I actually found myself looking up Roger CPA on youtube a lot and another fellow named Larry lawther I think was his name. For me, I need a review program that EXPLAINS things. After 15 years being out of school, I am not reviewing. I am relearning. I put close to 300 hours into far and my study habits were AWFUL. Do NONE of these:
1.) Have your study area a mess. I was so disorganized it was pathetic. Towards the end, I got VERY organized and was actually able to get things into my head but it was too late. My test was in a week.
2.) Study too much. Those 300 hours? Over the course of 2 months. I work part time. I literally would study from sun up to sun down on the weekends. That’s just diminishing returns at that point.
3.) Skipped back and forth from chapter to chapter to chapter. If I didn’t understand something (which was common) or that one guy was doing the video… I found myself tuning out or counting how many times he said “alright”, then getting aggravated and switching to a whole different chapter… and there he was again!
4.) Don’t schedule til youre ready. That’s only a suggestion and only what I am going to do. I ending up rushing at the end and skipped over a lot of stuff I had an aching feeling was going to be on my test. So I glossed over it. Me. I have a hard time getting EASY stuff into my head and there I was glossing over stuff. DUMB IDEA. DO NOT SKIP THE SMALL CHAPTERS. I did. And that’s exactly why I failed. Well that and all these other reasons
5.) I ran out of time and couldn’t do more MCQs plus could never do them on my phone.
I am buying Roger CPA and also Ninja this time. I wont go back to Yeager for the life of me, but that’s ME. I think others that really need a review OR learn faster than me- hey it could work. I spent more time yelling at my computer “STOP SAYING ALRIGHT. NO ITS NOT ALRIGHT. I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT!” than actually retaining anything. The world “alright” is now a joke in my house.
But if you want a book read to you word for word go for it. I watched almost every single video and kept pausing, taking notes, pausing, taking notes. A 45 minute video took me three hours. Then I thought WHY AM I DOING THIS- they are reading word for word out of the book. Sometimes they would skip to their handout and not tell you so you were even more lost Or put the wrong answer up on the board. I seen that. It just wasn’t for me. I could go on, but I wont. Again, it was my fault I failed.
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