Surgent CPA Review + NINJA as a Supplement | Pass CPA Exam in 5 Easy Steps
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“Why We Chose It (Best Artificial Intelligence Tools): Surgent CPA Review provides students with AI software to determine exactly what topics need to be covered. This aims to cut the length of your study time. Its advanced online technological tools set it apart from the others.”
“Why We Chose It (Best Price): 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.”
– Investopedia, Best CPA Prep Courses of 2024
Table of Contents
Step 1. Nail the Concepts (Supplement Path)
Nail the Concepts with your Surgent Videos. Time: 2.5 Weeks.
Start reading the NINJA Notes & listening to the NINJA Audio.
Fire up your Surgent course and Nail the Concepts with your Surgent CPA Review 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 Surgent 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.
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Step 2. Intense Notes (Supplement Path)
Take Intense Notes over your Surgent course lectures.
Take Intense Notes over your Surgent lectures.
First Time?
Retake?
15th Retake?
It doesn't matter.
Use your NINJA Study Planner.
Take Intense Notes while watching your Surgent 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 (Supplement Path)
Non-Stop NINJA MCQ & Take Notes. Time: 2.5 Weeks
Non-Stop MCQ – Surgent 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 Surgent 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 Surgent CPA Review questions, switch 100% over to NINJA MCQ for this phase. When it comes time for the SIMS, switch back and forth according to which software you like better.
Again … if this is your first time taking this exam, use your Surgent 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 Surgent CPA Review Test Bank and NINJA MCQ.
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Step 4. Just Rewrite (Supplement Path)
Rewrite Your NINJA Notes. Time: 1 Week
Rewrite Your Surgent CPA Notes or NINJA Notes. Time: 1 Week
We know you took killer notes over your Surgent CPA lectures … re-write those 😀
If taking notes wasn't in the cards this time, and you did your best, we suggest you re-write 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 (Supplement Path)
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 keep all of that weekend study momentum. Plus, the stress of knowing that your exam is Monday will keep your laser focused.
If you're using your Surgent CPA Review Test Bank in the Non-Stop MCQ phase, this is where you switch over to NINJA MCQ (if you've already switched, then keep 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 drill 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.
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 with Leases, and then move on to the next one – which might be 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.
Yes, There Are Two Paths You Can Go By…
NINJA CPA Review is a complete course that has also been the #1 CPA Review supplement for over a decade.
One product, two ways it can be used to study.
How would you like to use NINJA?
NINJA Only
You plan to use NINJA CPA Review as your ‘one and only.' It will be your primary set of study materials that you will conquer the exam with.
NINJA As A Supplement
You plan to use NINJA alongside another set of study materials you have already purchased. (Becker, UWorld, Surgent, Gleim etc.) Therefore, you will be supplementing that course with NINJA.
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