Becker CPA Review + NINJA | Pass CPA Exam in 5 Easy Steps

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“Historically, Becker has been the most popular and trusted CPA exam prep course on the market. Becker provides students with peace of mind knowing that the largest CPA firms in the world trust Becker to prepare their employees for the CPA exam.”

“NINJA CPA Review works nicely as an inexpensive supplement to an online course. This is an efficient studying tool that can be used as your main course, but serves best as an auxiliary study aid with an excellent online support community.”

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Step 1. Nail the Concepts

Nail the Concepts with your Becker CPA Review Videos. Time: 2.5 Weeks.

Start reading the NINJA Notes & listening to the NINJA Audio.

Fire up your Becker course and Nail the Concepts with your Becker CPA Review video lectures or NINJA Sparring* sessions. If self-study is more your thing, then read the NINJA Book* instead. Time: 2.5 Weeks

If something isn't making sense in your Becker CPA Review videos, attend a live NINJA Sparring session and ask questions, or watch a reply from a past sparring session on that topic.

Start listening to your NINJA Audio. Never drive to work without it on. You can listen to fun things when you're a CPA. Let that motivate you. 🙂

If your commute is a one-hour round trip, then that's one hour of NINJA Audio per day (and that's for the commute alone—if you can work and listen to the NINJA Audio, even better).

Start reading the NINJA Notes in your downtime, especially at work. It's OK if you haven't studied the section before. It will start clicking the third time through, regardless of where you are in your prep.

* NINJA Book and Sparring are available in the NINJA Course package.

Step 2. Intense Notes

Take Intense Notes over your Becker course lectures.

Take Intense Notes over your Becker lectures.

First Time?

Retake?

15th Retake?

It doesn't matter.

Use your NINJA Study Planner.

Take Intense Notes while watching your Becker CPA Review lectures.

Struggling to take notes? That's OK. You can fall back on the NINJA Notes and rewrite those later.

Step 3. Non-Stop MCQ

Non-Stop NINJA MCQ & Take Notes. Time: 2.5 Weeks

Non-Stop MCQ – Becker CPA Test Bank or NINJA MCQ. & Take Notes. Time: 2.5 Weeks

If this is your first time taking this exam, do Non-Stop MCQs with your Becker Software. Then, in the review phase (A—All Comes Together), switch to NINJA MCQs and work backward, beginning with your weakest topic.

If this is a retake OR you've found yourself memorizing your Becker CPA Review questions, switch 100% over to NINJA MCQ for this phase. When it's time for the SIMS, switch back and forth according to which software you prefer.

Again … if this is your first time taking this exam, use your Becker CPA Test Bank questions for N (Non-Stop MCQ) and NINJA MCQ for A (All Comes Together) as you review.

If this is your first time taking this exam and you're memorizing the test bank questions (which is bad because it causes false confidence … you're scoring in the 90s, but on exam day, you score a 65 and can't figure out why), then switch over to NINJA MCQ 100% for both (N) and (A).

Simulations – First time or retake alike: switch back and forth between your Becker CPA Review Test Bank and NINJA MCQ.

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Step 4. Just Rewrite

Rewrite Your NINJA Notes. Time: 1 Week

Rewrite Your Becker CPA Notes or NINJA Notes. Time: 1 Week

We know you took killer notes over your Becker CPA lectures … rewrite those 😀

If taking notes wasn't in the cards this time, and you did your best, we suggest you rewrite the NINJA Notes.

(Listen, we get it – re-writing notes sounds incredibly boring. Do you know what else is boring? Re-studying for a failed exam. Just Do It.)

Rewriting your notes seems tedious (it is), but the investment is highly worth it.

Step 5. All Comes Together

All Comes Together in a Final Review. Time: 1 Week

Watch the NINJA CRAM*. You can easily knock it out in a weekend. A few days prior to your CPA Exam is ideal. We recommend taking an exam on Monday so that you can maintain the momentum from your weekend studies. Plus, the stress of knowing that your exam is on Monday will keep you laser-focused.

If you're using your Becker CPA Review Test Bank in the Non-Stop MCQ phase, this is where you switch to NINJA MCQ (if you've already switched, continue using it here as well).

Start with your weakest topics first and work backward. You can let the software feed you questions, but since you're in a final review phase, I recommend doing topic-specific mini-testlets and really drilling down.

Do a set of 20 over your weakest area. If you're weak in several areas, choose the one that keeps you awake at night the most.

Now is also a good time to hammer away at your NINJA Flashcards*.

The one you DREAD seeing on exam day.

If you hit in the low 70s (70-75), move on to your next weakest area.

* NINJA CRAM and Flashcards are available in the NINJA Course package.

You don't go for mastery here because you have a lot of ground to cover quickly for your review. It's better to get all of the topics into the 70s and then come back and hit them again vs. getting a few into the 80s/90s and running out of time before you can get to the rest.

For instance, if you're taking Financial Accounting and Reporting and your weak area is Bonds, do 20-question mini-testlets until you score in the 70s (which may take 3 or 4 sets) and then move on to your next-weakest area, which might be Leases.

If there is a topic that's keeping you up at night, hit it extra hard with a NINJA Sparring session and put those fears to rest.

Repeat this process with Leases, and then move on to the next one, such as inventory, etc.

If needed, read up on the topic in the NINJA Book, paying particular attention to the examples and application areas.

As you head into your exam, hammer MCQ and read the NINJA Notes every spare millisecond you have.

Everywhere you go – in the car, at the gym, sitting at your desk, it's NINJA Audio 24/7 until your exam.

(You can fire up that Spotify playlist you've been missing on the way home from your exam and sing with the windows rolled down)

NINJA MCQ … NINJA Notes … NINJA Audio on repeat...even up to the minute you leave your vehicle and head into Prometric.

What if the extra 3 minutes of some nuance of Corporate Taxation was the difference between a 74 and a 75 on exam day?

Walk through those Prometric doors confidently and barf out all of that knowledge in your head.

THEN … sleep for 3 days.

You've earned it.

Is NINJA CPA Worth It?

We get asked this question a lot by people who have already spent time, energy, and (more importantly) their hard-earned money on another course that has either not gotten the result they had hoped for, OR they fear has not prepared them enough to pass.

Here is a sample of folks who can best answer this question: