CPA Study Planner
Pick your section and exam date. Get your daily question target, your study phases, and a plan you can drop straight into Google or Outlook calendar.
Your situation
Take your plan with you
Calendar
One event per study day, titled with that day’s target. Google’s version is quicker but writes a single repeating event.
Spreadsheet
Your day-by-day plan and your question budget split across the AICPA content areas, both live formulas. Change a number and the plan recalculates.
Your phases
Where the hours go.
Do it under exam pressure.
Why all four answers are what they are.
Teach it back. Out loud.
Not every rep, and no new hours: a teach-back replaces a rep you would have re-drilled.
The math, since you should never trust an unexplained number
We assume 1.5 minutes per practice question, the pace our own users average, and benchmarks of 2,000 questions and 50 simulations per section. The volume is deliberately back-loaded: up to 30% across your early runway and the rest in the final month, because what you drill months out fades before exam day. Your early days run at half your final-month pace, and the sims land on drilling days, two or three a day at about 30 minutes each. Topics follow the AICPA content areas by their published weights: coverage walks them in order, and the final month revisits them weighted. If you apply a score report, weaker areas get half again their weight and sit closest to exam day, and the item-type marks shift the benchmarks 10% in either direction. The final week stays light, because walking in rested beats walking in crammed.
One caution: if the plan says your date needs more hours than you have, believe it. Moving an exam date costs a rescheduling fee. Failing a section costs $319 to $469 and ten more weeks.
Day one of the plan starts with 20 free questions.
Take the free sample exam