How Shailja Beat the "Mental Game" and Passed the CPA Exams

In this episode of the CPA Exam Experience Podcast, you'll hear how Shailja was able to pass the CPA exams by overcoming all the doubt and fear that she wouldn't be able to pass the exams. Shailja had struggled to get the Indian equivalent of the CPA and so had a lot of self doubt going into getting the CPA. You'll hear how Shailja was able to overcome those feelings and those thoughts and pass each exam, first try. She talked a lot about having a positive mindset and believing in yourself. Again, she passed all of her exams first try, so listen closely to her experience so you can believe in yourself too! FULL EPISODE PAGE: Episode Timestamps 00:00 Shailja Interview 03:21 Brief Background 04:26 Deciding to Pursue the CPA 05:39 Work Experience is from India 06:55 How Shailja's Journey Started 07:55 Found SuperfastCPA Looking for Bite-Sized Ways to Study 08:49 Things Shailja Used After Deciding to Purse the CPA 10:47 Why Shailja Got SuperfastCPA 13:16 How the Mini Quizzes Helped 15:28 CPA Exams Timeline 15:56 What Shailja Did Differently Studying with SuperfastCPA 19:26 Writing Notes in Your Own WOrds 20:28 Do What Makes You Study Consistently 21:59 Passed All Four on First Try 23:21 Doing the Mock Exams to Learn Time Management 25:22 Had Negative Thoughts About Taking the Exams 26:25 Shifting to a Positive Mindset 27:50 Have Something That Can Keeps You Motivated 31:40 One of Shailja's Motivations 33:13 Review Process for the Sims 34:25 Kept Track of Which Simulation Question to Practice 36:35 Shailja's Tracker for Sims 38:00 Review Course Mentors 40:21 How the Podcast Helped Shailja 42:28 The Feeling of Relief and Confidence After Passing the CPA Exams 44:33 Things Shailja Did Before Taking an Exam 47:35 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 52:05 long.

This episode was published on Nov 19, 2025.

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