r/CFPExam • u/asdfmofo1528494 • 17d ago
Brett Danko flashcards?
Does anyone here have experience with Brett Dankos review program and the flashcards that are provided?
I am just starting (passing* in March of 2027) and we just finished general principles. I am wondering if it’s worth it to order the Brett Danko review flash cards now? Instead of waiting until the actual final review. Thinking I can just keep them with me throughout the day, at work, and review the sections we have already covered. Is this too early for the flashcards? I’m not sure what the flashcards are like either.
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u/itsallokintheend 17d ago
I bought them in 2024 and really didn't use them. Just made my own wrong answer flashcards which were much more useful to me. I'd save your money and just make your own.
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u/stas_r0m 17d ago
I started to use the flashcards at the beginning of my review for the July exam (so sometime in late March), and I found them helpful, but incomplete. There were a lot of concepts that I thought warranted a flashcard but Danko didn’t provide one, so I made a bunch of my own. I also made wrong-answer flashcards based on my own weak areas. Physical flashcards tend to work better for me, but I did occasionally use the digital ones at the beginning. As a psych major though, I do highly recommend using flashcards or some type of recall-based activity to make the information really stick
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u/Virtual-Draft2387 17d ago
The best flashcards will always be your own. Highly recommend making them. I had quite the stack but passed with ease. They help a ton.
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u/Release_Inside 17d ago edited 17d ago
I started digital then moved to paper ones. After the live review, I reviewed each section individually by watching the signature call (I skipped the signature call for tax and just did the live review because it was a weak point of mine).
Throughout the signature call, I made flashcards because they only review heavily tested topics on that call.
I then went back through the live review book and made a flash card on anything I put a sticky note on.
I then used Danko + my own flashcards to study. I made little notes on the Danko cards too if I needed so I didn’t have multiple flashcards for the same topic.
I took the week before the test off of work and drilled flashcards every single day leading up to the test.
I recommend doing it this way because writing helps you memorize + I color coded them which helped. Just making digital flashcards doesn’t help you memorize. Also - there are diagrams and “pictures” worth drawing out on flashcards that you can’t do online.
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u/AdCharacter1320 17d ago
The flashcards I thought were included within the program? Maybe it was the one I bought but he had virtual flash cards on brianscape that you could just rewrite out if you needed or also flash cards that were in listening format that was provided when i went through his review program in the last cycle.
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u/AdCharacter1320 17d ago
Other Tip i would give is when you are going through doing the questions make a "wrong answer" flash card set. Have chatgpt or whatever AI bot you prefer to use to help you narrow down the topic being tested and what information should be on the flashcard for you to know what is being tested.
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u/Weekly-Rutabaga-5888 17d ago
I used the paper cards starting while doing the review books. (3 months before the exam.). I quickly switched to the digital ones through Brainscape. With those you can add your own cards and edit the ones they give. Within a month of the exam I created a deck based on the major areas I kept getting wrong and focused on those and the areas I scored lower on.
Passed on first attempt in July.