Four sections, a rolling window, and a full-time job
The CPA is not one exam, it is a scheduling problem with four exams inside it. Most candidates who stall do so because a section expired or a retake landed in busy season, not because they could not pass it.
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The sequencing costs more candidates than the content does
Under CPA Evolution you sit three Core sections, AUD, FAR and REG, plus one Discipline section of your choice: BAR, ISC or TCP. Credit for a passed section is valid for a limited window, and the length of that window and its start point are set by your state board rather than by the exam itself. Several boards have extended it in recent years, and they have not all done so identically.
That is the first thing to establish, because sequencing follows from it. Sitting the heaviest section first, scheduling around your firm's busy season, and leaving enough room for one retake without expiring an earlier credit is a planning exercise that has very little to do with accounting knowledge.
The second thing is the score report. A failing CPA score comes with performance information by content area and by question type, which distinguishes a knowledge gap from a simulation-technique problem. Those need different remedies, and task-based simulations are where candidates most often lose a section they knew the material for.
- Your state board's credit window confirmed before the sequence is set
- Sections ordered around busy season and around one planned retake
- Score report read by content area and by question type
- Task-based simulations practiced as a distinct skill
What your plan contains
Written after the first session
- A sequence for all four sections against your board's credit window
- Study hours weighted by your score report, not spread evenly
- Simulation technique treated separately from multiple choice
- A schedule that survives busy season rather than ignoring it
- A named tutor you keep across all four sections
What we work on
AUD
Auditing and Attestation. Heavily conceptual, and the section where candidates most often lose points to question interpretation rather than knowledge.
FAR
Financial Accounting and Reporting. The broadest Core section and usually the largest single block of study in the plan.
REG
Taxation and Regulation. Rules-dense, rewards drilling, and ages fastest, so it is worth sitting close to when you studied it.
Your Discipline
BAR, ISC or TCP. Choosing the one that fits your existing work is worth more than choosing the one rumoured to be easiest.
How a CPA plan runs
Confirm the window, then sequence
Your state board's credit rules, your firm's busy season and your existing passes, turned into an order for the remaining sections with room for one retake.
Weighted study from the score report
For a resit, the report tells you which content areas and which question types cost you. For a first attempt, we weight by section blueprint and your background.
Simulations under time
Task-based simulations are practiced separately. They are where a candidate who knows the material most often loses the section.
Taper, then sit
Review and pacing, no new material. Then the next section starts, rather than a gap that quietly becomes three months.
Preparation is teaching and practice, never the exam itself
- No help of any kind during the exam, remote proctoring included.
- No live questions, no recalled items, no reconstructed CPA banks.
- No sitting the exam on anyone's behalf, ever.
- We do not guarantee a pass, and no honest tutor would.
- We guarantee the process: a named tutor, a set number of hours, and a plan built from your own score report.
The CPA is a licensed credential with a character and fitness requirement. An exam security violation or an academic integrity finding is not only an exam problem, it is a licensure problem that can surface years later. Read the full policy.
Frequently Asked Questions
The AICPA publishes pass rates by section and by quarter, and they differ substantially between sections and move year to year. We would rather point you at the current published figures than quote a number here that will be stale by the time you read it, and prep companies' summaries of them are frequently out of date.
The credit window is set by your state board, not by the AICPA, and several boards have extended theirs in recent years without adopting identical rules. Confirm yours with the board directly, because the whole sequencing plan depends on it.
Usually the one closest to the work you already do, because your existing knowledge is worth more than a small difference in difficulty. Candidates who pick on rumoured difficulty rather than on fit tend to spend the saving and more on unfamiliar content.
It is the normal case. What makes it work is sequencing that respects busy season and a plan that assumes one retake rather than pretending it will not happen. What breaks it is an even split of study across four sections and no slack.
Plans start at $199, and the exact figure depends on how many sections you are planning and how many sessions each needs. Nothing is booked until you agree it.
Send us the score report and your passes so far
We will tell you what the remaining sequence should be against your board's credit window, and what a plan would cost. Before you commit to anything.
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