#cpadiaries

1. Use a study planner Using a planner helps really a lot in scheduling your review and reminding you of what you have to finish.

So what I do is I plot in the monthly overview and weekly overview quizzes, exams, reports and deadlines. Then I list down the topics I have to review and distribute or divide them over the days or weeks I have before the quiz, exam, report or deadline.

In my weekly overview I write down in details the topics I have to review and I check them off if I finish them. I just love the feeling of accomplishing every item in my list.

2. Concept before practice What I do is I read first the theories or concept of a certain topic, highlighting important ideas and also answering the sample problems then I summarize in my notebook or flashcards what I’ve read.

Then I answer practical accounting books, when answering problems of course you can get things wrong, so, what I do is I mark those problems and I write somewhere in the side of the answer why I got it wrong. After answering all the problems in that topic, I answer again the problem where I made a mistake to see if I already understand it.

Another reason I highlight the problems where I made a mistake is for me to easily find what problems I find difficult or confusing when I want to browse for the last minute.

3. For Business Law or Taxation - Read, Highlight and Summarize We usually have 10 sections or articles as our homework or worst we’re not really given any details as to what will be covered on our recitation. So, what we do is read as much as we can.

In our school we attend Business Law or Taxation class mainly for recitations or quizzes we don’t usually have discussion, maybe once or twice before midterm or final exams.

I read 10 Sections or Articles, understand them, highlight important notes, then I write in my notebook the exact Section or Article and summarize in my own word what it contains because no books or printed materials are allowed in our class. I do them in a continuous process until I run out of time.

Before, I write first before I try to understand what I’m actually writing and it end up I have written notes but I don’t really understand them deeply. I know what’s written in my notebook but I only memorize them but not really understand them.

So I tried the other way aroung and that is reading and understanding first before writing my notes. It was more efficient and I ended up writing lesser since I already understand it.

4. Use one calculator This way you’ll be more familiar with the distance between numbers and where they are situated. You’ll be amaze that you can compute without looking at your calculator.

If you want to change calculators make sure you do it some time before an exam that is enough for you to get used to your new calculator.

Make sure also that the calculator that you are using is allowed in the actual board exam so you don’t have to change and find your calculator unfamiliar.

5. Make studying a habit I unconciously made studying a habit that was when I was really desperate to pass a subject because my graduation depends on it.

Making study habit means you feel incomplete without studying. Waking up without an alarm and sleeping at the same time everyday.

As for my experience, I was desperate so I really studied everyday! But there was a time when I said I don’t want to study anymore because I’m not making any progress but I just can’t help not to study. I stood up from my bed and started studying.

We had our RFBT in our Review today, We started in Obligations at Art. 1156 then continued to Art. 1157

Art. 1156 An obligation is a juridical necessity to give, to do, or not to do.

Art. 1157 Obligation arises from 1) law 2) contracts 3) quasi contracts 4) acts or omissions punished by law 5) quasi delicts

We ended our 4 hour session discusing about these two articles that seemingly covered the whole obligations and contracts.

From the kinds of properties, obligations and rights, continuing to the essential requisite of a contract and its difference with quasi contracts same goes for delicts and quasi delicts then proceeded to solutio indebiti and negotorium gestio. We were even to discuss the status of the contract and vices and so on

We were able to discuss so much that I was a little bit overwhelmed because

First, I read our book and finish somewhere I thought we’ll at most finish but then my reviewer was tackling almost the whole obligation and contract by glimpse and its been a year or years since I last read our oblicon book.

Second, my co-reviewees were answering in chorus even though we’re discussing a topic somewhere from contracts (and I barely remember those articles or topics) and it seemed that they partially know about criminal laws!!!

Lastly, it seemed that some of them are reviewing for the second time and have mastered the subject already.