A 4-week EA exam study plan covers all three SEE parts at ~34 hours per week (~135 total hours). This pace is demanding — 34+ hours per week is essentially half-time study. Best if you are currently working in tax and can leverage job knowledge.
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A 4-week EA plan walks the three SEE parts module-by-module. Part 2 (Businesses) gets the most weeks because it's the densest content, followed by Part 1 (Individuals) and Part 3 (Representation). Review and mock phases follow.
Cover Part 1 — Individuals (33–37%), Part 2 — Businesses (38–43%) in this week — paired because their individual weights are light or the intensive pace requires combining adjacent syllabus sections. Read each objective, flashcard the key formulas, and run one quiz across the group before moving on.
Circular 230 line-by-line, the examination/appeals/collection processes, and practitioner duties. Pubs 947, 556, 594. Narrower but heavily memorization-driven. Build flashcards covering every learning objective and quiz yourself before moving to the next module.
Weak-topic drilling. exclam.ai surfaces topics where you underperformed during coverage and re-quizzes them. Daily FSRS flashcard reps across all 3 topics to prevent decay. Start doing timed question batches focused on the heaviest-weight sections.
Full-length EA practice exams under timed conditions. Target one mock every 3–5 days. Same-day error review: for every question you miss, re-derive the solution from scratch. Taper in the final 3 days — light flashcards only.
All three SEE parts in a single plan. Each part has its own exam date and its own set of IRS publications that form the free corpus.
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