How Genevieve Passed the CPA Exam by Changing Her Mindset

In this episode of the CPA Exam Experience Podcast, you'll hear how Genevieve was able to pass the CPA exams after years of putting it off to focus on family and her career. She didn't want her years of experience and know-how to be held back by her not being a CPA, so she recommitted to getting it around 2023. You'll hear how Genevieve was able to change her mindset to pass the CPA exam. Studying with the questions first really clicked with her and made all the difference in her process. She went from failing exams then giving up for years, to passing all four exams in 11 months total. She was even able to maintain her favorite hobby! This is a great interview, so make sure you listen all the way through. FULL EPISODE PAGE: Episode Timestamps 00:00 Genevieve Interview 03:36 Genevieve's Initial Attempt at the CPA and Giving Up 05:23 Why Genevieve Decided to Pursue Her CPA 07:12 Why It Didn't Work Before 08:49 What Pushed Her to Try Get Her CPA Again 10:29 Be More Flexible Studying for the CPA 11:17 You Should Have the Right Mindset for the CPA Exams 11:48 Deciding to Study Again with the Support of Your Loved Ones 13:59 Passed REG Before SuperfastCPA 15:05 Why Genevieve Thinks She Failed Studiying Before 16:23 Things That Made Sense from What She Found from SuperfastCPA 17:15 Suprised That She Passed REG in Busy Season 18:24 Studied Her Own Way, Not Following the Review Course 20:02 Never Liked Doing Flashcards But Still Wrote Down Things for Memoryc 20:52 Failed FAR the First Time But Stayed Positive 22:33 The CPA Exams Will Test Your Discipline 24:59 Genevieve Had to Make Things Work With the Short Timeline to Study 26:11 Read the Whole Book for FAR 27:50 CPA Exams Timeline 30:43 Daily Study Routine 34:02 Studying with a Physical Book 35:14 Consistent Studying to Keep Things Fresh 36:12 Accept That There's No Easy Way to Hack Through the CPA Exams 37:56 Adopt Study Habits Where You Learn Best 41:19 Utilizing SuperfastCPA Study Tools 42:45 Took a Week Off for Her Final Cram and Resting the Day Before 45:02 Test Day Experience and Exam Scores 49:16 Used the MCQs to Understand the Sims 52:05 Why She Chose Gleim as A Review Course 53:30 Biggest Benefit Genevieve Got from SuperfastCPA 56:42 Cut Out All Distrations 58:45 Top Tips for People Still Struggling with the CPA Exams Learn the SuperfastCPA Study Approach, Free You'll hear me mention the SuperfastCPA study process multiple times in this episode. What we teach our customers is how to have a 2-hour main session each day where you can get more done than someone studying 4-5 hours the "normal way". We cover this in our free "study trainings", which are 1-hour webinars where you'll learn exactly what to do when you sit down to study so that you can 1) move through new material faster, 2) understand and retain it better, and 3) spend less time in front of your review course WHILE getting better results. Register for a free session here: OR, just text PASSNOW to 44222 and we'll text you back a link to the training. This is one hour that will literally save you months of time and frustration from trying to figure this stuff out on your own, so register for a session today! Register for a free session here:

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This episode is 01:02:38 long.

This episode was published on Jan 2, 2026.

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