How Margaryta Improved Her Life While Passing the CPA Exams

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In this SuperfastCPA podcast interview, you’ll hear how Margaryta was able to persevere through and pass the CPA exam. You’ll hear how at first, she didn’t fully implement the SuperfastCPA strategies and was scoring in the 50’s on her own, but once she started changing her strategies, she jumped up to the 70s and eventually started passing exams.

With English as her second language, some parts of the process were especially difficult, but she learned so much through this process and it changed her life for the better. She not only learned how to pass the exams, but how to have more balance and structure in her life. She was able to stick through these exams for over three years until she passed, and so can you!

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Episode Timestamps

00:00 Margaryta Interview
02:53 How Margaryta Got Into Accounting
04:07 Hit a Wall And Found SuperfastCPA
04:58 Sat for First Exams but Failed Miserably
05:31 Studying the First Time with Becker
06:47 Took FAR Thinking She Could Score 75
07:39 How It Was Studying the First Time
08:19 Tried to Find Help After Failing the Second Time
09:44 Writing Physical Flashcards Worked for Her
10:27 Gradually Learning Re-Review
10:58 Why It Didn’t Work at First
12:25 Having a Daily Routine
13:40 Learning from the Multiple Choice Questions
16:18 Deconstructed Calculations by Paper
17:53 Changed Her Approach, Jumped to a 74
19:40 Thought the Audit Exam Was Insane
22:02 After Failed Audit the Second Time Around
22:51 Took Her Time with REG and Passed the First Try
24:33 Passed TCP First Time
26:42 Biggest Benefit from Switching to SuperfastCPA
30:10 When Margaryta Would Write Flashcards
32:17 Listening to Audio Notes
33:23 Things That She Got from the Podcasts
34:04 Having a Timer for Study is Effective for Focus
38:06 Weekend Study Routine
40:25 Adapting Your Study Process
41:16 Things to Do to Feel Comfortable on Test Day
43:16 Celebration After Passing
44:48 Even Got Promoted Before Becoming a CPA
45:40 Going Through This Journey Made Margaryta a Better Person
48:12 Pursuing the CPA Helped Her Manage Her Life
49:58 Managed to Go to a Concert 2 Days Before the Exams and Pass It
51:07 Margaryta’s Top Tips to People Still Struggling with the CPA Exams
53:12 Learn to Let Go of Things You Can’t Control

Interview Transcript

Margaryta: [00:00:00] Like I was looking, oh, I’m not good enough. I’m not smart enough. I’m not gonna pass this exam. And it was very like, uh, demoralizing.

But I realized everybody’s journey is different. I knew it took me three and a half years. Yes, it’s, it’s longer than most people do, but I’ve learned so much, like, you know, how to set up the boundaries, how to tell the people no. How to manage stress, how to, you know, put your personal stuff in the box till you sit for exam and revisit after the exam.

Logan: Welcome to another episode of the CPA Exam Experience podcast from SuperfastCPA. I’m Logan, and in today’s episode you’re going to hear me talking with Margaryta.

Now Margaryta is an immigrant. She immigrated from the [00:01:00] Ukraine in 2011 or somewhere around there, so she’s been in the United States for quite a while. But English is her second language and you can imagine that, that probably made things a little bit difficult, especially when it came to audit.

But she has an awesome story. She started studying for the CPA exam and she really struggled at first, she was scoring in the fifties each time she took the exam. And then when she found SuperfastCPA, she eventually did start passing exams. And it wasn’t perfect, she still failed some exams, but there was a big improvement and she was a lot closer each time, and of course, starting to pass exams.

And in this episode you’ll hear how she was able to change that, what things she did in her process to be able to do that, and how she was able to achieve passing the CPA exam. She has a lot of great tips, so make sure that you watch the whole video or listen to the whole podcast episode because again, she has a lot of great things to say, especially about motivation and staying motivated and things like that. So make sure you stay for the whole thing.

Now, one thing I will say before we start the interview is make sure to check out the free one hour webinar training on [00:02:00] superfastcpa.com if you haven’t already done that. Again in that one hour for free, we will teach you the key ingredients to passing the CPA exam so you don’t waste months or even years of your time failing exam.

So make sure you check out the webinar, and another thing that you should check out after you watch the webinar is becoming a SuperfastCPA PRO member. PRO members get access to a lot of great stuff, including the PRO course, where Nate explains in detail everything that you’re supposed to be doing to pass the exams.

And also we have SuperfastCPA multiple choice question walkthrough videos where I walk through just about every topic in FAR, audit, a lot of them in REG and TCP, and I’m currently working on BAR. Again, these are videos where I walk through multiple choice questions on a topic in the blueprint and show you how to learn from it and show you the answer to those questions so that you can be learning that material.

So make sure you check out becoming a pro member as well. Now with all that said, let’s dive straight into the interview with Margaryta.

How Margaryta Got Into Accounting

Logan: So where were you when you were starting your, like how did you get into accounting [00:03:00] before you even got into CPA?

Margaryta: Yeah, so I’m actually immigrant in US. I came from Ukraine, um, like 2011, and I had an unfinished degree back home, so I decided to start studying here because the degree from logistics didn’t convert here.

So I started taking um, uh, just community college classes to get associate degree. And the professor that I have for accounting, which was mandatory, was great, you know, I like math and physics, and the way he was breaking down the concept, I was like, this is so easy. I can do this profession. And he kind of like motivated me to like start looking and digging deeper so I took his classes, graduate community college, then I went to Bachelor and I did accounting, and then I did Master in Finance and Accounting.

And then while I was going through this journey, you know, I was working the same time and people were like, oh, are you gonna sit for your CPA? And of course every manager I had and like a CFO, they all had CPAs.

Um, [00:04:00] I was, like, okay, I need to do that too. So I, I thought there was logic’s path to do it.

Logan: That, that makes total sense.

Hit a Wall And Found SuperfastCPA

Logan: So, so you immigrated from Ukraine 2011, started picking up school again. Got into accounting that way. And about what point did you start going for the CPA exam? Like at what point did you start doing that?

Margaryta: Um, I think I finished my master 2021. I took summer off and I’m like, okay, September, I’m starting fresh. I already got the Becker review. I start September, and then October, uh, I think I hit a wall so I was like, okay, let’s, let’s look up alternative option.

I found Superfast on a podcast because I actually was listening to different podcasts and at that time, so I found multiple podcasts, but that one I, I just liked the most.

So I did buy the material and, you know, I was kind of fighting off the method. I was like, okay, that’s what they say, but I’m still gonna do Becker method.

Logan: Right, right.

Sat for First Exams but Failed Miserably

Margaryta: If it, um, I [00:05:00] kept so September into like February, and February, I was like, you know what? I have to just sit for the exam to just to see how it looks.

So, either fail or pass, I’m just gonna see it. And I failed miserably, I think I got like 54 and, uh, whoever lied to me with Becker bump and if you put all the green check marks, it was, it was awful.

Logan: Mm-hmm.

Margaryta: I like, remember sitting on exam and thinking, oh, about a retake already.

Logan: Like you already felt, I’m gonna fail this. Like even just being in the exam.

Studying the First Time with Becker

Logan: Uh, what, so you were, so you got SuperfastCPA, were you using any of it or were you just kind of like, kind of using, what were you doing to study that time when you failed? Like what was, what were you doing at that point?

Margaryta: I think I did still watch the lectures and I did all the, all the material, I did the all MCQs, all the sims, all the practice exam, everything. I do remember eventually printing out the notes in, in a binder and make the [00:06:00] book, but I still, for some reason I didn’t use them. I used more Becker book and which is very heavy

Logan: Yes.

Margaryta: To carry around and I think that was the only book that I actually, uh, redeemed with Becker. I’ve never redeemed any more books since after that I was like, you know, this is a waste of paper.

Logan: Yeah, I felt the same way. I, when I started, I, I, when I got into, uh, doing the CPA, I knew about SuperfastCPA right from the start, but I didn’t buy it right away. And so I was kind of doing this mix between Becker and throwing in a few things from SuperfastCPA, but it just didn’t really, it wasn’t really working.

And I had the textbook as well for audit, and I carried it around and I was highlighting it and doing all the, and it just felt like a total waste of time, uh, which sounds like you felt the same way.

Took FAR Thinking She Could Score 75

Logan: Uh, so, uh, so you take that exam and which one was it again? Was that FAR?

Margaryta: Far, yeah.

Logan: And so you’re doing FAR and was that the point where you started wanting to use the SuperfastCPA [00:07:00] material? Like what changed after that?

Margaryta: Yeah, I try. So I’ve tried to do both. And I think what I didn’t realize, like, um, I didn’t ha, I didn’t have strong background, so I had to literally relearn the whole FAR over again and I should have took my time and like at home, I was scoring like fifties or sixties and I thought if I go on exam, I just miracly score 75, which is like, I don’t know why I was thinking that way.

So I did, I did pretty much exactly the same thing again, I took ’em again in July. It maybe got like, instead of 54, I maybe got 59.

Logan: Okay. All right.

Margaryta: It was awful.

How It Was Studying the FIrst Time

Logan: And, and how much were you studying? Like how, what, what did that look like?

Margaryta: Um, so I was like not consistent enough because I, I, before I took it in February, I was, took February 14 and the day, in the same day I was driving home. I was buying boxes in Walmart because I was moving. So I was moving, and while I was [00:08:00] waiting for my scores and after the score release and I found out I failed, I was like, okay, I’m gonna start again and it was just like, everything was just fallen not in the right place because, um, the war started and my family asked for more attention. I just had to do a whole bunch of other stuff that I wasn’t anticipating doing in the beginning.

Tried to Find Help After Failing the Second Time

Margaryta: So I think that by summertime I, when I fail second time, I’m like, okay, I need some coach. I need to find something like some motivation groups, so Facebook groups or somebody like hold me accountable for it. And I, I learned that I don’t work well in groups. I’d rather be alone.

Logan: Yeah, and especially with the CPA exam, the reality is it’s all your skills at the end of the day. So I think groups can be a little bit helpful for people, for motivation maybe. But other than that, like it really comes down to you. So did you try it getting into like a group or something like that and then you didn’t like it?

Margaryta: Yeah. I’ve came across this Facebook group, yeah, and we, we did like sessions in the evening together, the [00:09:00] breakdowns of questions, but I feel like I was too far ahead of them, so this was not helpful for me. They were like pulling me back and I came across this lady, she had like, accountability coach. So I started using her as like, um, like, uh, like you meet once a week just to have like your brain dump that you have your ideas and she can organize them.

Like here, you’re out and then you have, come up a plan, then you revisit every two weeks so like see how it works. So nobody literally coached me, or not coached me, but not teach me how to do the MCQs. I was doing them myself and then myself, the way I was breaking down the concept, it was more beneficial to me because I understood better and I can move forward.

Writing Physical Flashcards Worked for Her

Margaryta: And then I try the flashcard with Quizlet, I fail miserably.

Logan: Mm-hmm.

Margaryta: I will go to my phone for Quizlet and then wind up on Instagram or weather or traffic or Google Map or anything about [00:10:00] anything.

Logan: Yep.

Margaryta: I really went back to like a paper, a paper ones, I bought like a stack of paper and I started writing and I would like do bonds and the breakdown in the bottom. And if I see multiple choice that adds to that flashcard, I will add to it. And like I’ll write in the back, on the side, I will like continue like, uh, based on the subject. And that would help me like to finally incorporate the knowledge.

Gradually Learning Re-Review

Margaryta: And I finally, I don’t know, maybe I finally listen enough for a podcast.

I start doing re-reviews.

Logan: Okay.

Margaryta: Yeah, and uh, um, I was really slow at these re-reviews. People like saying 30 multiple choice. It took me like an hour just to do the 30 multiple choice. By the time I reviewed them, it is like the, the session is over, so I start doing like 15, 17 and one sim and then I increase by 20.

If the speeds start going faster, I start increasing the 20 and then 30 so I build the, like, the strength and the speed.

Why It Didn’t Work at First

Logan: So if I could [00:11:00] kind of go back just a little bit, ’cause I wanna dive into what you were just talking about, but I want to kind of contrast this. So what would you say was your big struggle before you started changing things that you were just mentioning? Like what was it that just was not working that caused you to fail the exams?

Margaryta: I think what it is, like I would just throw in, um, I didn’t have clear path plan for work for me. I would just throw in everything like in the morning, in a lunch at evenings. And I didn’t have benchmark how much I wanna accomplish every day or every week. By not having benchmark, I feel like I was not doing enough.

And when I’m doing enough, I’m just keep going, throwing, throwing more and more stuff on myself and get burned out and then feel like a failure because I already failed twice.

Logan: Right. So just really unstructured, like, I don’t think I’m doing this right, so I’m just gonna keep doing more and more of it. But it wasn’t, it was just kind of hectic.

Margaryta: Yes.

Logan: Is that right?

Margaryta: Yes, until I got literally a [00:12:00] dollar store planner with a calendar and I start writing, like the week one will be module one, and then I wanna do 60 multiple choice and read this many page of Superfast notes and this mini quizzes on my phone. And when I had this benchmark, if I hit it, okay, I feel good about myself, so I know I did what I was supposed to.

If I do more, great, if not, I just can do a little more in it tomorrow.

Logan: Okay.

Having a Daily Routine

Logan: I, I really like what you were saying there, and I, I definitely wanna dive into that. So, it seems like the biggest struggle was like consistency and knowing what to do. So now you, you know, after you failed twice, you start diving into the multiple choice questions. You got this, I guess, accountability coach, you started doing the flashcards and you did this daily planner.

So yeah, kind of just explain how your process changed. What did it change to for, like, what did your day-to-day look like?

Margaryta: So yeah, I start studying, um, before I used to study, before work and then get stuck in traffic. So I would just start coming [00:13:00] to work early and I could only come hour early, so I would do like seven to eight there, then lunch break, and then after to get off work. I may listen on my way back the notes, audio notes and then come home and just do the house chores, so that will be the routine.

And then on the weekends I would do the sims and like whatever I didn’t, uh, finish during Monday through Friday, and I would do that every week.

Logan: Okay. And so, so that’s what it changed to, so roughly an hour in the mornings and then maybe, and then, you know, kind of studying, did you say, did you say you did like an hour at lunch or?

Margaryta: Yeah.

Logan: Is that, oh, okay, okay, I see.

Learning from the Multiple Choice Questions

Logan: Um, and you mentioned earlier that you started really focusing on the multiple choice questions. So what changed there? Like what, how did your focus change with the multiple choice questions?

Margaryta: So at first, you know, English is my second language so when I read, I read every single word, try [00:14:00] to understand the whole thing, what they ask, and it take too long. So I think I remember maybe some interviews or somebody on a chat group, uh, the chat said that you should start from reading the bottom line. What was the question?

And then, look through the answers first to get an idea and then read from the top. And that cut my time significantly and I wouldn’t waste so much time to understand what the question about. And then for FAR, like it take calculations so I’ll like do a scratch paper on a notebook so I can, um, make the calculations.

So that’s how I’ve deconstruct them and then memorize the concept, not like, people write the whole question on the flashcard because Becker, Becker flashcard was wasteful. I just put them in a, in a trash can. I was like, this is, this is not worth it. And yeah, this way I was like able to like, okay, this is the concept, they asked this way, this way, but it’s still the same concept.

Logan: Mm-hmm. [00:15:00] So it sounds like, you know, at first with multiple choice questions you were trying, I mean, and I, I totally. I don’t understand personally, but it totally makes sense that it would be really difficult to like try to read through the multiple choice question and like, there’s probably some words in there or nuances that you’re like, I’m not sure if I understand what that means.

So jumping to the bottom is a, that that is definitely a strategy we constantly are mentioning, um, in the, I don’t know if you ever watched these, but in the multiple choice question walkthrough videos that I’ve been creating for SuperfastCPA. I always mention that even for questions that are, it might not seem like you really need to do that.

It’s such a good habit to be in to read the last sentence first, because it gives you that context for what’s even happening, and it’s not a hundred percent helpful. Like it, it’s not every single time it helps, but a lot of the time it really helps, you know, oh, I need to be looking for this, as I read through this.

And so it sounds like [00:16:00] that really helped you kind of start picking up the pace and improving your understanding a lot. Is that right?

Margaryta: Yes, especially when the last questions are like, which is not correct, or, which is correct and I was like, oh, they would get me every single time. So I was like, make sure I read this line first, and then go from the beginning.

Deconstructed Calculations by Paper

Logan: And, and then you, and it also sounded like you started really kind of deconstructing the calculations on paper. Did you ever use an Excel sheet or was it mainly like scratch paper?

Margaryta: I had like a notebook, and I think by the time I finished with FAR I wrote two notebooks.

Logan: Okay.

Margaryta: Like by hand, um, I would do calculator on a computer because that will be the one on a test, uh, center. So I FAR would like, I don’t know, maybe I’m just old school. I like to do by hand writing real quick. Um, and I, I didn’t use Excel because I feel like by the time I typed this formula, it will take forever.

Logan: And, and is that how you did it on exam day [00:17:00] as well? Like did you use the scratch paper at, at the exam as well? Okay.

Margaryta: Yeah, I used the scratch paper. I did not use the, the hand calculator they gave you, I never used that one.

Logan: Yeah. Yeah, those, there’s two things I definitely don’t recommend using, and it’s the, like the calculator in the exam. Usually I usually don’t recommend using that cause a lot of times you have to like click it instead of being able to type it. Um, and then, uh, but so it sounds like using the scratch paper really worked for you.

And I do think there is something to be said about physical notes. You know, we frequently recommend using Excel just because a lot of people are pretty quick at using it and you’ll have access to an Excel sheet on exam day. But whatever you figure out that works for you to like be able to work through problems.

That’s the important thing is to be able to work through the problems, and it sounds like you found what worked for you.

Changed Her Approach, Jumped to a 74

Logan: So you had these kind of changes and what happened after that? So you had, you had failed FAR twice, [00:18:00] so what happened after you kind of started changing your approach?

Margaryta: So after I changed the approach, I sat maybe like November and by December I got my score and I got 74.

Logan: No, um, so much closer, but.

Margaryta: I remember, yeah, the day the score was released, I was like, oh, what would happen if I would get 74? And I was like, why would you say that? Like you, you cannot say that. Yeah, I was like, you cannot say that. Now, moving forward I would like, I write a wrote the sticky note like manifesting. I would wrote the sticky note passing was not 75.

I would just do 89 little higher because if I do 75 and get 74, I will get disappointed again.

Logan: Yes. Yeah. So, so you got a 74, but I mean that’s a huge jump from like 55 and 59 or whatever those were. So did you feel like even though you got the 74, you felt a lot more confident like, oh, this is starting to work?

Margaryta: Yes, I was like, okay. I started working, I’m close to the [00:19:00] passing and I think I got the score like December 19 or 18, so like a week or two before Christmas, I was like, there’s no point for me to sit right now to the exam. I, and I start a new job and I was like, let me just do January, like mid-January. I, I paid for the exam, I start studying, I went in and I set for the January, and by February I found out I passed FAR, yeah, passed like.

Logan: You know what the score was?

Margaryta: I think either 77 or 79.

Logan: Okay, but you that’s the important.

Margaryta: I post on a, on a forum, that’s why I remember.

Logan: All right, right. And, and I do remember seeing some of your posts in the forum over, over time.

Thought the Audit Exam Was Insane

Logan: Uh, so you passed FAR after the fourth try, but I mean, the, it really seems like once you really started implementing the SuperfastCPA methods, it, there was a huge jump in your, in your retention and understanding, and so how did things go after that? [00:20:00] After you passed FAR?

Margaryta: So I was through the moon, I was like, this is finally a passed FAR and I heard that was the hardest. I was like, everything gonna be smooth and like smooth sailing from that, from that point.

Well, I was wrong, I start studying for audit, and audit was something that I never seen before. I now work in audit, I only took like one class in my grad school, so this was like a foreign language I had to learn and I was like, this is insane, but no calculation, just a bunch of words.

And they just only different by one, little off, like, uh, like one word, different answer. And I was like, I study and I thought it was making sense, like, okay, it’s logical, it’s easy.

I sit for exam, I got 73. I was like, oh man.

Logan: It’s so close.

Margaryta: Yes, and I was like, maybe what I thought is clicking is not really working, so I need to do a little harder. And I [00:21:00] sat again and I got 65. I was like, oh my God. Yeah, and then I learned and that mentally, like when I got 65, I would just like stress about personal stuff. So when I was in exam, I caught myself thinking about my str, my, you know, my issues and not focus on exams. So I was trying to reel myself back into the questions and I was like, this is not working.

Logan: Mm-hmm.

Margaryta: So audit with, it was a struggle too.

Logan: Yeah. The being like, I mean, it’s always stressful being in the exam, but I, I, I remember for my first exam, which was audit, I remember being so stressed that like, because I was stressed I was, I like noticed all the sounds around me. Like I heard everybody typing and everybody clicking, and my headphones were hurting.

And I just, it was so hard to focus on the exam and, you know, maybe that’s a little bit different than like what you were saying, but I, I remember that feeling of just feeling like it was so [00:22:00] hard to actually think in the exam.

After Failed Audit the Second Time Around

Logan: Uh, so you got a 65 that time? Probably partially because you were stressed about some other things. So did you like take a step back or what did you do after that?

Margaryta: Yeah, I restudy, schedule for next month and other things happened, I was stressed out and I just, I should have just canceled exam and move it further, but I went anyway and I got another 73. So like, okay, finally I got myself under the control. It was like, okay, you know, you can’t really stress about things out of your control.

I finally grouped myself together and I went back and I think I passed, was like 79 audit, so that was two passing and scores in, in the same year, 2023 in December, I found out that passed audit.

Logan: That’s awesome.

Margaryta: And I was like because it’s like if I, if I keep getting stuck on audit, like there’s no way I’m gonna get to the end.

Took Her Time with REG and Passed the First Try

Margaryta: I was like, I was so happy that audit is over. And it was like, and I moved on to REG and I was like, at least REG has calculation [00:23:00] and I don’t have to learn this language and it will be not a lot, a lot of words, it will be the most numbers. And I was like, I’m okay with numbers. And um, REG was pretty good.

Uh, I did not rush like I did in prior exam because you know, people say like, oh, you should take eight weeks, or it should take you this long. And then I were like, you know, until I score like 85 at home, I’m not going anywhere.

Logan: Okay.

Margaryta: So I took my time to do the REG and I, I went sit for a REG and I pass on first try.

Logan: I bet that felt amazing to pass an exam first try. That, that’s awesome.

Margaryta: I was so excited because I was like, never pass anything of first try.

Logan: And, and you were, was that in 2024? So did you have to wait for the what? Did you have to wait a long time to get that score back?

Margaryta: So I sit by June and the score release would end of July, so I knew, I always try to sit like as close to the [00:24:00] deadline as possible, so if like deadline is Thursday, I’m set on Wednesday and I will wait the shortest amount of time. So, and I choose not to move on to the next section till I get this passing score.

So I waited till July to confirm the REG is over, and I already had like an idea that REG overlapped with TCP. So I’m, go ahead and since REG was, you know, REG was pretty good. I manifest that I’ll pass with 89 and I think I passed with like 70, like 79 or something like that, so really, really high.

Logan: That’s great.

Passed TCP First Time

Margaryta: So I was like, okay, we we’re just gonna go with TCP.

Logan: Mm-hmm.

Margaryta: And, um, it was shorter, the book was shorter than other classes. I was like, oh, this should be easy ride. Uh, um, I don’t think it was easy ride because I didn’t think about the, my busy season started in August, so I, August did not really go as I want to, and I look up the, the next window was like October to

Logan: The discipline, yeah.

Margaryta: [00:25:00] Yeah, so I was like, I’m just gonna sit in October, um, that, like, I picked the last day, that can sit like 28 to 29 so I can get the score in December. And I sat on it and I, I passed when I first tried too, I got 81, the highest score.

Logan: On, in October, you’ve, you’ve took your last exam and that was in 2024, right? Just this past year. That’s, that’s awesome. So you went from, you know, really struggling with FAR and then struggling with audit a little bit too, but your process had improved a lot by the time you got to audit. And then REG and TCP you passed first try. Uh, that, that’s, I had, I had heard that TCP was like, like the highest passed,

Margaryta: Mm-hmm.

Logan: Uh, discipline, um, and I mean, for me, I, I think TCP has the easiest material of them because I wasn’t, I worked in tax, so that one made sense to me. What, what is it you work in again?

Margaryta: I actually do like more financials and like before I worked in like AP AR, but never tax, never [00:26:00] audit. I’ve never worked with tax, but I was like, wonder, I was surprised how easy the tax, um, more applicable or like, you know, easy to digest to me and I was like, since the REG worked, I’m gonna just stick to TCP and just go with it.

Logan: Yeah, I think that’s a good idea. I, I honestly think that whatever exam you are most comfortable with, you probably can do the discipline that relates to it. Uh, although except BAR, I, I mean BAR in my opinion is the hardest exam. I think it’s even harder than FAR so I don’t typically recommend people do BAR, but if people are really comfortable with FAR, they can do BAR.

If they’re really comfortable with audit, maybe they can do ISC. And then you did really well with the REG, so you’re like, Hey, I’ll do TCP, and it worked out really well.

Biggest Benefit from Switching to SuperfastCPA

Logan: Um, so what would you say was like the biggest benefit that you saw from switching over to SuperfastCPA cause we talked about the questions and we talked a little bit about the flashcards.

Uh, what other things were like a big benefit to you as you were trying to [00:27:00] go through these exams?

Margaryta: I did the, when I first started FAR in audit, I did print the books and I read them and they, back then they were like not that long, they was under 200 pages.

Logan: We did make them bigger, yeah, yeah.

Margaryta: Yeah, I print them and while I was like going through questions, I would write on top like extra stuff that I would found on questions and I wanna add to this book and I’ll read them over and over and then, um, I would read them with a voice too and then you guys up with voiceover,

Logan: Yep.

Margaryta: Uh, because I notice I get distracted, I read three pages and, um, my mind drift away somewhere. Um, so I would do that and I, um, I would do on my lunch break. Just sit in the car and read through those things because I need to have like a quiet environment, in the office people talk and I just, I just get distracted.

Um, and so I, I use mini quizzes too. I was on my phone like in any, any lines or any places. I’m doing my quizzes on a metro, on a bus, everywhere, I [00:28:00] waiting for the, uh, bus, all metro, I’m doing quizzes over and over, over again.

So I did, I think like for TCP, I think I memorized all the Becker questions. At the, at the at, at the end of the point I was scoring like nineties because I know all the questions.

Logan: Wow.

Margaryta: I did so many of them. I find for FAR, I feel like, I think I did 274 testlets, like you know the sections in Becker?

Logan: Like your, like re-review?

Margaryta: Yeah, yeah. As the Superfast notes got bigger, I think for TCP, REG I think I still read them, but for TCP, I think I just print, um, somebody in the forum said that Becker final review is really helpful and I download them and print them out and start reading them.

And they only have like four chapter for TCP, so like a chapter a day, and I would make them very small, so they would be like six, five pages and I’ll write on top of them. So I’ll use them a lot. I’ll carry them everywhere I go. I’ll carry them with me.

Logan: So with the, so you did that with [00:29:00] the Becker notes, but then you also did that with the SuperfastCPA notes and that sounds very similar to what I did. So just to make sure I’m understanding, so you’d print out the notes and then you’d pretty much have your own notes there as well, is that right?

Margaryta: Yeah, so like if a question elaborate on some specific topic, which notes didn’t have, I’ll add that line to it.

Logan: Yep, yep. That’s exactly, that’s exactly what I did. I, and I, you know, I was taking the exams before I started working for super fast CDA and we made, when I started working for it, we decided to make them more extensive. But yeah, I had, I did the same thing. I printed them out and if there was something that was missing from the notes that I was seeing in questions, then I would add that to wherever I was studying.

Or if there was something I was really struggling with, of course I would make flashcards, but I also would put my notes in those notes. So pretty much the SuperfastCPA notes and my notes were all in one spot, so it kind of sounds like you did a very similar thing.

Margaryta: Yeah, and if I didn’t know where the section is, I would go to open PDF Control F and to search by [00:30:00] that specific lease or bond or something that I need. I was like, oh, let me find this specific section and then find and write the page.

Logan: And you, earlier you kind of, I, I mentioned just flashcards, just barely.

When Margaryta Would Write Flashcards

Logan: So earlier you were talking about physical flashcards, so when did you typically make your flashcards?

Margaryta: Um, I was not, I was doing towards the end when the, the, yeah, I started doing the re-reviews and I noticed like the same question come up over and over and over again and I keep, you know, failing the question or keep not understanding.

So I would like write down the background, sometimes I would do like a chart or graph or like if you go from here to there, to there, or divide in half like flashcard, this is from LLC, this is for partnership, how they comparable to each other. So you can have this picture in your head while you are studying. And then some, surprisingly, when I’m going exam this picture come up in my head and I’m like, oh yeah, I remember this and I just write it.

So like I have, um, visual memory and I learn, I learned better hands on, [00:31:00] not just listen to lectures and then I don’t remember anything. And then lecture wasn’t helpful because the questions were not really on it. It be like, it’s like a left field. You studied this and questions on the other side.

Logan: Yeah. I felt the same. I felt the same about the review, the lectures as well in, in Becker I used Becker and I thought it was great for the questions. But yeah, the lectures just, I felt like I would watch them and then I would get to the questions and I feel like I was learning from scratch either way.

Um, and, but with the flashcards, I like what you said there, like, kind of like diagramming things out. I did the same thing as well, and I had the same thing happen as well, where when I would be at the exam, I would remember, okay, in this situation it goes down to this and like I could like lay it, map it out in my head so I, I think there’s definitely something to be said for that. Like mapping it out in your own way to make it make sense for yourself.

Margaryta: It, it helped me and then I didn’t have like a hundred fresh card for like, maybe for FAR I have [00:32:00] like 30, 40, but for audit, maybe I have like 10, 15, so it was like, not as much, but they’re very detailed and concise what I do need to know.

Logan: So it was, it was less about bulk flashcards and more just really condensed down to the things that you knew you struggled with, okay.

Listening to Audio Notes

Logan: And you mentioned the mini quizzes and the follow along notes, did you also use the audio notes?

Margaryta: Yes, I did them in a car but, um, in DC the traffic is crazy so sometimes you can, if you like bumper to bumper and you’re not really driving anywhere, yeah, it’s great. But then if you like crazy drive, like people drive crazy here and you have to focus, then you zone out and then you like, oh, I have to rewind it because I don’t remember what, it was just sad.

So, it was good in the mornings. In the evening, it will be sometimes I, I get too tired to listen to them, so I maybe listen halfway and then some switch to something else. And I definitely watch the podcast, like I listen to podcast like that was like every thursday I’m [00:33:00] waiting till they release the new one so I can listen to it. Um, and it will be like, you know, a break from the audit notes.

Logan: Yep. And, and I think that’s definitely a good recommendation. I did the same thing, uh, just like, sorry, I’m just comparing, but you, you’re doing, you did a lot of the same things that I did and yeah, to have a break from the audio notes, but still be doing something with the CPA, I listened to the podcast a lot as well, so.

Things That She Got from the Podcasts

Logan: And were there, was there anything from the podcast that kind of like, that you kind of gleaned some ideas, that you took some ideas from the podcast that you started using? If you can remember?

Margaryta: Yeah, I don’t remember. I think I, I wrote down everything, like every time people would say what they did, I was like, oh, I’m gonna do that. Like, somebody say they bike or hike with audio notes. I was like, oh, I can do walks with it, that I was like, okay, I’m gonna start walking outside on a lunch break and maybe listen to audio notes instead of sitting in the car and read.

So, like small things, but, uh, like I would go get my oil change instead with the book and I listened to audit notes because I was like, it’s a, you know, [00:34:00] it’s an hour just waiting, doing nothing. And then I was like, might as well just do, get something productive.

Having a Timer for Study is Effective for Focus

Margaryta: Oh, and I don’t know if anybody said that, but I use this app to track the timer, like time on your each task you do. So like this one was like a study I’ll, I’ll create a study and then when I press the button study, you know, the timer starts. So that’s mean I cannot touch my phone or respond to any text message or calls. I have to only study, not just being on Instagram or something.

Logan: Oh, so, so can you explain that again? So it was an app was, this was on your phone and it basically, did it lock down your phone so that you can’t,

Margaryta: No, it didn’t lock down, but when the screen is closed, it would just show the timer like it’s going. So like you are like, okay.

Logan: Mm-hmm.

Margaryta: So you have 45 minutes and like, or however long you wanna do it. So you only study for that amount of time and it kind of like, you kind of mentally put pause on everything else.

Logan: Right.

Margaryta: And then if something happened, yeah, you, you stop the tracker, so then [00:35:00] you do that and come back and restart the tracker.

Logan: And did you use that for like everything that you did, or is it mainly for like your main session studying?

Margaryta: Just the studying, like not mini quizzes but like while I’m doing the multiple choice or read over the notes, so like I wanna make sure those two hours that I claim that I study, I actually did study and not pretend I was studying.

Logan: Mm-hmm. Yeah, that I definitely, I definitely had that happen a few times. Uh, but that’s a really good idea, by the way. I like that. And, and putting on your phone instead of maybe on your computer cause our phones do tend to be the thing that distracts us from things that we need to do.

Um, was that like

Margaryta: Or another I, iPhone has the feature like Do not disturb.

Logan: Yeah.

Margaryta: And then I created, instead, instead of doing do not disturb, I created one more, “Study for CPA.” So when I put that mode on the phone, like, uh, go black and nobody can [00:36:00] call you, oh, if they call you, it will not ring. And then you’ll not see the text message till you unlock the mode.

So you just like people see that you study and it, they will like not keep blowing off your phone.

Logan: Yeah. And did, yeah. I think, cause sometimes it’ll like, at least with other iPhones, it’ll say like, they have their phone set on Do Not Disturb or something like that. So that probably helped a lot if, if you needed to focus. I, I, I like what you’re saying though, again, like putting it on your phone instead of maybe on the computer cause that makes it so that the thing that is the distraction is also the reminder I need to be studying. So that’s a really good idea. I like that.

Margaryta: It worked for me and then I was able to, like, in, in the month you’re like, oh my God, I did 40 hours or like 60 hours, 84 hours. I was like, and you kind of can track how much, any extra hours you did study for that particular section if, if you care. But it would just like an idea, it just like a, like a, you know, when a horse has barriers, like, just like that, so like you just have a [00:37:00] barriers, so you only focus on this and nothing else.

Logan: Yeah. It helps you have kind of more tunnel vision for what you’re supposed to be doing. What, what was the name of that? Did what? Do you remember the name of the app?

Margaryta: Uh, yeah, I can

Logan: So other people can maybe implement

Margaryta: It was free, it’s called uh, A as an apple tracker.

Logan: Atracker?

Margaryta: Yeah, so it was free and um, you can create a, um, task. You want the name, name, any task I have just study gym housework, but I only use for studying.

Logan: Right.

Margaryta: And then,

Logan: I really like that.

Margaryta: I, I thought it was, I found it useful, especially it free. Um, my, the coach I had, she suggested some different app.

It was with the subscription. In this one it was free, so I used this one.

Logan: Yeah. I never like sub for me subscriptions, I would way rather either have something totally free or have something that I pay once and I own it forever, that’s me personally anyway. But that’s, but that’s a, I like that Atracker, uh, will definitely have to, maybe [00:38:00] we’ll have to start, uh, recommending that alongside, like BrainScape, which is what we recommend for flashcards. I like that.

Weekend Study Routine

Logan: Uh, and then kind of coming back to some of like your study methods, we haven’t talked about this very much yet, so what, how, you already mentioned this a little bit, but I wanna talk about it more, is the weekends. How are the weekends different than the weekdays?

Margaryta: Yeah, I study on the weekends more, but okay, my beginning I would be just like I, I study for like four hours and the reality I would study for hour and a half, maybe two. And then my brain will shut down and then I will force myself to sit and study, but nothing will go in. And it was a waste of time, and that I would do that every, every weekend.

And then I realized, okay, you not making any progress. Maybe you should get up early before you know, everybody wake up. Maybe like if it’s Saturday, I’ll start like seven or eight and start till like 12 or 11, and then [00:39:00] take a break for like breakfast, lunch, whatever, and then study for like couple more hours after.

So then you, like you split up the section, you have a break so you can do some house stuff or work out or walk and have reset, and then your brain is more fresher to do one more set or one more around.

So that was more helpful and I realized like, I don’t know how people study for eight hours straight. I just, I just couldn’t do it. I was like, and even if I forced myself to sit, it’s nothing really going in here. And I was like, this is just a, it’s just look good on the paper that you study for eight hours, but what are the really quantity or how much you could, could have done? Like what is the productivity of this? It’s not that high.

Logan: Yeah, I, that’s definitely like, you know, in the general recommendation from SuperfastCPA, you know, on the weekends we recommend like four or six hours, and then we have that 48 hour cram where you do like eight hours a day for the two days before. Um, and you know, that’s [00:40:00] the idea, uh, because the hope is that you’re just gonna study as much as you possibly can and some people are definitely able to do it.

But I, I was the same way, like I just physically could not focus for that long. Uh, I was diagnosed with ADHD like a few years ago and I was like, well that makes sense. So I just couldn’t, I have like literally could not sit there for four hours straight and study for myself personally.

Adapting Your Study Process

Logan: So I had to adapt, and it sounds like you found something that worked, you know, cause SuperfastCPA is kind of the general framework because it works pretty darn well for the most part. But especially once you started seeing results, you were able to kind of switch it up a little bit, so you would break up your study sessions all throughout the weekends, is that right?

Margaryta: Yeah, or like I wouldn’t do, like before I used to the full exam just to like practice to sit at the desk for this long or like be able to focus for this long. But then I realized, no, it’s more productive just doing 30 questions and four [00:41:00] sims. And if you do twice every, twice every day, that’s mean full exam every day.

Logan: Mm-hmm.

Margaryta: So you build the strength and like res, like you know that you can sit through the whole time and then it doesn’t really need to, you don’t need to sit for four hours straight.

Logan: Yeah.

Things to Do to Feel Comfortable on Test Day

Logan: And did you find that all of your practice translated pretty well to test day? Like did you feel, you know, once you got past some of those failed exams, did you feel fairly comfortable and confident on test day?

Margaryta: Um, yeah, so I will have, like, when I go, I have like my routine when I go into the exam, I’ll come early, I’ll bring my food with me. Sit in the car like hour early, flip through my flashcards, then watch like motivation video or like I’ll, I know it sounds funny, but I’ll watch Rocky around the stairs and then I’ll feel like, oh.

Logan: That’s great.

Margaryta: I would feel like a champion and when I go in, I’ll just go in like, okay, I already passed this exam and I sit down, I’ll write, I already passed this exam. [00:42:00] This is just a formality. And then I start the exam. So like if I believe that I passed the exam, then I did pass the exam. If I was walking in scared or not confident or intimidated, or if you know, not sure. I’ll bomb the exam. I will be freaking out in the questions. I may not have good time management. I’ll second guess myself on every single question, and then I would definitely not pass the exam. So that was just how it worked for me.

Logan: Right, That I, and I think that’s true. I would say that’s probably pretty true for pretty much everybody. Um, if you don’t think you’re gonna do well, then you’re gonna second guess yourself all the time. Even if you’ve studied it really well, you’ll probably pick the wrong answer ’cause uh, maybe that wasn’t right.

Um, but yeah, it’s, I mean, it sounds like you really like, totally revamped your process. After failing FAR a few times and even though you failed audit a few times, I would [00:43:00] probably attribute that more to external things and also just audit being difficult when English isn’t your first language.

Um, so, but yeah, you like totally revamped everything and really did super well. Uh, you did that, I mean, that’s fantastic, you did really well.

Celebration After Passing

Logan: What did, what, what did you do after you passed? Like, did you done anything to celebrate or what’s, what’s changed?

Margaryta: Yeah, I took a couple, like my friend was studying for the civil engineer license, so you know, when she passed hers and I was like, oh, we would celebrate. She’s like, we’re doing a girl trip to Mexico, so we went Mexico, uh, in April. Yeah, um, and I, I bought some small gifts for myself to like, you know, um, to memory that I passed and I, oh, actually a week ago, Maryland finally sent me my license, so I framed it.

Logan: So you’ve actually, you’re officially, you have your CPA license framed, right? Which is it that yellow one?

Margaryta: Yeah, I framed the, with the, [00:44:00] with the golden frame, like the boards, and it’s funny because Maryland sent me a small license in March when I finished my ethics and submit all the stuff and I, and based on the email, that was it. So I didn’t expect to get the, the bigger letter in the mail to like a week ago.

Logan: Yeah.

Margaryta: I was like, oh, what a surprise.

Logan: Yeah. I wish that I had gotten a surprise like that. Utah, yeah, they just sent me a PDF and that’s it. I just printed out and that’s it.

Margaryta: Yeah, it was a PDF and it like, you know it, it’s like a one third of the PDF, so I was about to frame that. I already got the frame, I got everything ready. I just didn’t hang it up. And then on Saturday I got this letter in the mail and that was it. I was like, oh, okay, I didn’t know that was gonna happen. But yeah, it was, it was nice.

Even Got Promoted Before Becoming a CPA

Margaryta: And, um, work-wise, I, I don’t know, in my head I thought like, once I pass the CPA I’ll be qualified for like, some sudden job opportunities and career [00:45:00] improvements or growth. And actually I got it early, so I got a promotion in August before I finished my CPA. I was like one section away.

Logan: Wow.

Margaryta: I do remember saying on the interview like, Hey, I already passed two sections and I’m on track to sit for third exam, so I was implying that I’m gonna have this license, so you should consider me instead of other candidates and, and I, I did get the job, so I was like, perfect.

Logan: That’s fantastic. Yeah. And even if, and even with just that benefit, you’ll definitely see other benefits as you go through your career and everything just for having that CPA license.

Going Through This Journey Made Margaryta a Better Person

Logan: Uh, but with all that, I think that we’ve pretty much hit everything that we typically talk about.

You’ve had, you had an awesome journey. Is there anything else that you were wanting to mention before we kind of start wrapping up?

Margaryta: Uh, I think the most thing is like people start comparing to each other, to like [00:46:00] ourself to somebody who’s faster, the more successful or complete this journey faster or pass on the first try. And then we sell that ourself and I have the same, um, like I was looking, oh, I’m not good enough. I’m not smart enough. I’m not gonna pass this exam. And it was very like, uh, demoralizing.

So all those small things that I’ve learned within this journey is like transparent to my life. And I was like, you know what? I would never even know all this, if I didn’t struggle through all this process. So I know like I manifest and wrote like, you know, my name as a US CPA 2023, and I got in [00:47:00] 2024, but I still got it.

And, um, everything that I was like writing everywhere, like remind myself, it came true, maybe just took longer, maybe, no, it was not the right time. So I’m glad it worked out that way. And all the challenges that I faced, like it was just made me stronger instead of like, make me weaker.

Yeah, if some people pass on three months, don’t look at them. If you take you six months to study, just take your time, make sure you score higher, make sure you feel good about it, and you know you can create your own journey, your own path, and stop, you know, stop com seeing, being jealous that people go on vacation. You studying with the books on your deck every summer.

That was, I was just like, it’s your choice. You picked, you picked this journey, you made a, um, commitment to it. So you have always had an option. You can just quit and go on vacation and do nothing. It’s up to you. And then you start being more picky about what do you spend time on or like watching TV become like [00:48:00] less relevant.

Like, okay, it’s a waste of time or like.

Logan: I, yeah,

Margaryta: You catch yourself doing some stupid things. You are like, this is not really, it doesn’t benefit you anyway, you just wasted time.

Pursuing the CPA Helped Her Manage Her Life

Logan: You really felt like it translated to a lot of things in your life. Is that right?

Margaryta: Yes, yes, like I learned how to like, you know, tell my family, Hey, if you’re not dying, this can wait after the exam.

Logan: Yeah.

Margaryta: Nobody, you know, it’s not a life or death situation, you can wait, um, because you know, in their eyes everything is now or right now, and it was like, no, it’s not. So before I would like do everything they ask and I realize like, no. And like, the more you or you know, some friends call you and then just vent and you’re like, this is waste of my 20 minutes that I could have just do multiple choice. I should have, next time, I should just not answer the phone because they just steal your time, so like you need to be mindful, like, no, you know, this is my time. I can give you time later, or [00:49:00] this is not a priority right now.

Or how you can strategize like, you know, the house chores or you know, like you can come up with plan like, Hey, we do this once a week, or we outsource the cooking, or we, what is more requirements? And I, I was scared to ask for help, like I used to think always like, I have to do all that by myself.

Like, because I’ve done it before the exams, so I thought I have to do it with the exams. And then I was wondering why I’m burning out and I was like, oh, I start working out. And that was a big mistake. It cost me going back to therapy and work out with the physical therapist three times a week that I was doing before I start studying.

So like, keep in mind that like your mental health, your physical health, and your priority, which you had before exam is important too and you shouldn’t just drop all of this. You, you just need to say what is not negotiable? What are you willing to like drop it? What do you want to keep it? And how you can fit your life into it.

Managed to Go to a Concert 2 Days Before the Exams and Pass It

Margaryta: Like, I think when I was taking [00:50:00] TCP, I have a two days before exam, I had a concert to attend and I already have the ticket, so I couldn’t just say, I’m not going.

Logan: Right,

Margaryta: I just plan ahead. I did like multiple choice before the concert and ahead of time, so I hit the benchmark. I, I didn’t feel guilty going to that concert. I still passed the exam.

Logan: Yeah. I, I, I love what you’re saying here. I really think a lot of it really comes down to. You learned a lot how to manage your time and not just like blocking off your time, but also just what mattered for your time. And, uh, it really, I, I feel the same way, you know, even after, you know, now that I’m doing this for a living, I definitely have noticed the things that I do or that I used to do that were just, are just a waste of time.

And I frequently am telling people, just delete all social media off your phone or, you know, like, because especially when you’re studying for the CPA exam, that stuff is just gonna distract you from what really matters. Uh, so I love [00:51:00] the, I love what you were saying there. Like, I, I, I think that’s fantastic, uh, advice that anybody should apply for sure.

Margaryta’s Top Tips to People Still Struggling with the CPA Exams

Logan: Um, now at the last question that we always ask, uh, and you know, this might go back to some of the stuff you’ve already said in the interview, but it is just always a nice way to have it nice and succinct is, if you could give advice, you know, your top two or three tips to people who are still going through the CPA exam, what would those be?

Margaryta: I think just keep going. Don’t give up, keep pushing. Like doing the multiple choice till you score like 80, 85 at home before you go for exam, because your score gonna get knocked down from your anxiety and stress level and all the other factors in exam, so you probably will get, hit the 75.

And I, I found the consistency is the key like I’m looking at my planner, don’t look like I took any day off. I look like I have, I wrote what I was doing every single day. And yeah, make sure you strategize what is your [00:52:00] priority. Like, if you think like working out, help you mentally to like decompress and keep yourself healthy and you can sleep at night, keep it, don’t, don’t ditch it. Maybe don’t work out two hours a day. Maybe do 30 minutes a day or three times a week or something.

And mental health is really important, I, I realized like I bombed some, like at least three exam because I was just stressed out. And I was like, if you feel like you have too much internal, like you know, too much going on in your household and you can’t handle it, go ahead and push that exam. I pushed the exam before because, you know, busy season came, I knew I wasn’t ready, so there’s no need for me to waste $250 just to go there.

Go ahead, pay the $35, push it till you less stress in your work, and then sit for exam. Don’t just feel like you must do it because you put on a calendar.

Logan: Mm-hmm. Right.

Margaryta: I rather get it done one time from first try than keep paying. Actually the fee went up, um, [00:53:00] when I started with like 200. The last exam that I paid for TCP was 355.

Logan: Yep.

Margaryta: And mind you, I sat for 10 exam.

Logan: Yeah, that’s like, um, like two, over $2,000.

Learn to Let Go of Things You Can’t Control

Margaryta: Yes, mind you, yeah. I was like. I and I, and I learned how to let go, um, the fear of failure and the fear, um, you what if and the things you cannot control. And it’s transparent to my day, night life now, so I can let it go, all the fear like it’s outta my control. Why you sitting stressing about it?

Like while you waiting for the score, why are you stressing? You, you have two options, either you keep studying for the same exam or you move on to the next one or third option, don’t do anything.

Logan: Mm-hmm.

Margaryta: That’s it, that’s all your options are. There’s no point to keep stressing yourself and drive yourself crazy, I don’t know, maybe it’s a woman thing because, uh, we master that. We must master overthinking over stressing yourself and go too far in the rabbit hole and just like go too far in every single [00:54:00] detail and then, and then you burn out.

Logan: Right. Yeah. I, I think those are fantastic tips. I love what you were saying there at the end. So thank you so much for being on the call today, Margaryta. I mean, you had some fantastic advice and you have an awesome story, and I think that it’s gonna be really helpful for a lot of people.

So yeah, congrats on being done, and thank you for being on the call.

Margaryta: Thank you. Appreciate it.

Logan: Yeah, no problem.

Logan: Alright, that was the interview with Margaryta. It was an awesome interview and I really loved being able to talk to her about the improvement that she was able to see switching from, again, scoring in the fifties, to then being able to pass exams and all it took was changing her strategies and staying motivated, even though it wasn’t perfect, even though she didn’t pass every single exam first try, she never gave up.

And with the right strategies, she was able to conquer the CPA exam even though she didn’t speak English as a first language. And you know, that definitely would’ve made things more difficult. She still is able to do it and that just goes to show [00:55:00] that anybody can pass the CPA exams if they have the right strategies, the right mindset, and the determination to use those strategies correctly and effectively.

So I am sure that you love this interview with Margaryta. Now, before you go, make sure again to check out the one hour webinar on superfastcpa.com.

That is one hour that will save you months and months of struggling with the CPA exam, so you make sure you check that out. And after you check that out, make sure you also look into becoming a SuperfastCPA PRO member, because we have a lot of great resources for SuperfastCPA PRO members, including the PRO course where we explain in depth how to study for the exam, and also our multiple choice question walkthrough videos where we walk through multiple choice questions to learn the material in the blueprint for each exam. So if that sounds interesting to you, make sure you find those videos on YouTube or again, make sure you check out becoming a SuperfastCPA PRO member.

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