Why does time fly to quickly when you’re having fun or studying for the CPA exam? It seems like only yesterday when all my twitter friends and I were counting down the days for score release week. Now we don’t have enough hours in the day to get in everything that we need to. And that is when everything in your life (or at least mine) seems to become a part of a schedule.
My Study Schedule
| Day | Morning | Afternoon |
| Monday | 4:00 am – 6:00 am | 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm |
| Tuesday | 4:00 am – 6:00 am | 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm |
| Wednesday | 4:00 am – 6:00 am | 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm |
| Thursday | 4:00 am – 6:00 am | 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm |
| Friday | 4:00 am – 6:00 am | 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm |
| Saturday | 4:00 am – 7:00 am | 12:00 pm – 4:00 pm |
| Sunday | Rest | Rest |
This time around I am changing my study routine up a little bit, I just hope that it pays off in the end. None of my children enjoy it when I studyin the evenings away from the house but at the same time I can’t concentrate at home with everyone running around enjoying themselves. I am reserving my evenings for my family, eating dinner, reading books, watching movies, playing games, simply put just spending quality time together. The early morning routine will mean that bed time will come very early for me, I am going to need at a minimum of 7 hours of sleep a night.
I am also trying to avoid snacking while studying and drinking coffee/energy drinks to keep me awake while studying. I know that I learned and retained the information from my last attempt at the exam, but I have to be better to my body this time around.
Exam Schedule
I have already scheduled the three exams I need to complete and they are………..
August 13 – Audit
October 15 – Regulation
November 30 – Business
I will have more than 6 weeks in between each exam. Some may say that it’s too much time. I have learned that for myself, rushing through the material in a short amount of time has not proved beneficial. I need to continual repetition of material and question review for the information to ‘stick’.
Time is Ticking
Although I have a month to prepare for my audit exam, I only have a month left to prepare for my audit exam. The time goes by so quickly when you are studying and in the CPA ‘grove’. I have worked through the first chapter of my Becker material and three study units of the Gleim material. I will work on Chapter 2 and 3 over the weekend and next week, as well as the corresponding study units in Gleim.
Good luck to all my twitter friends currently studying for the CPA exam, its seems that many of us have such similar schedules. Just remember you are not alone, we will work through this challenge together!
Photo by: Elena Tercero
