How Kátia Passed the CPA Exams as a Busy Mom

In this episode of the CPA Exam Experience Podcast, you'll hear how Kátia was able to pass the CPA exams even as a busy mother. Kátia had moved from Brazil years before, but decided it was time to finally get her CPA license. She purchased SuperfastCPA, and even though sometimes it was hard to do the process, she kept going until she passed. You'll hear how Kátia was able to get past feeling bad or like a failure if she didn't pass an exam or missed studying, and you'll hear how she overcame the shame associated with those feelings. As a busy mother, sometimes the reality was that she couldn't study as much as she wanted, but she didn't let that stop her. She never gave up, kept going, and was able to pass the CPA exams. She mentions particularly liking the SuperfastCPA mini quizzes and audio notes, so make sure you check those out yourself! FULL EPISODE PAGE: Episode Timestamps 00:00 Kátia Interview 02:55 How Kátia Got Into Accounting 04:29 Why Pursue the CPA 05:28 Finding SuperfastCPA and What She Liked About It 07:43 Main Struggles She Had in the Beginning 09:14 Took Her Time Studying and Took Breaks 10:56 The Materials That Helped Kátia 12:31 Know What Works for You and Adjust Based on Your Situation 13:35 Daily Study Process 14:57 Finding Time to Study 15:47 Utilizing the Audio Notes Even When Life Gets in the Way 17:27 Kátia's CPA Timeline 18:46 Thought BEC Was Easy But Failed 19:40 REG Was the Only One She Passed First Try 21:13 Her Realization When She Took AUD 22:26 Why She Passed REG First Try 25:03 What Her Daily Study Sessions Looked Like 26:39 Took A Week Off to Cram for Final Review 28:04 Studying with Roger or UWorld 29:55 Made Sure She Answered All the MCQs for the Sections 31:28 Why She Chose Roger as Her Main Review Course 32:36 How the Follow Along Notes Helped 35:41 Study Process for Difficult Topics 40:02 The Benefit Kátia Got from SuperfastCPA 44:58 Top Tips for People Still Going Through 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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How Kátia Passed the CPA Exams as a Busy Mom is an episode from CPA Exam Experience from SuperfastCPA by SuperfastCPA.

This episode is 50:37 long.

This episode was published on Sep 10, 2025.

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