A 90-day EA study plan for your next part

Before day one: choose the part and define what completion means

Pick one of the three calendar columns and copy its topic sequence into your own schedule. A week marked “complete” should mean more than finishing a video. Attach an output to each topic: explain a rule without notes, solve a changed example and record the reason for a missed answer. The calendar gives structure; those outputs tell you whether the work is transferring.

Reserve the actual study blocks before choosing an appointment. Ten hours that exist only as a weekly aspiration are easy to lose. List the evenings or weekend periods you can protect, then account for travel, busy work weeks and other commitments. If your available time is closer to five hours, use the slower scenario below rather than silently removing review from the same calendar.

Check the current outline and tax-law cutoff for the intended sitting. This plan can be reused in 2027 and later, but topic details and year-sensitive rules must follow the bulletin for that cycle. An evergreen schedule does not make an old deduction threshold current.

What a 10-hour study week looks like

Protect the review time before adding more questions. A busy week with fewer well-reviewed items is more informative than a high question count with no explanation of errors. The allocation below is editorial and should change with your starting knowledge.

A complete 10-hour week: Part 3 duties and Circular 230

Here is an illustrative version of week two for someone studying Part 3. The topic comes from the calendar, but the study blocks are an editorial example. Replace the days to fit your work pattern while preserving the sequence of instruction, practice, review and a later retest.

The important handoff is between Thursday and Saturday. Saturday’s review uses the errors from Thursday to decide what to repair. Sunday then uses changed facts, so remembering the old answer is not enough. If you cannot explain why an alternative is wrong, keep that rule on the next week’s review list.

Make each checkpoint a decision

At the end of week 4, identify topics that you cannot explain without looking. At week 8, check whether any outline domains remain untouched. Use weeks 10 and 12 to test the full format, including section submission.

Do not use a single percentage as an automatic booking rule. Repeated questions, uneven topic coverage and guessed answers can all make a score look stronger than the underlying skill.

Recover a missed week without hiding the backlog

After an interruption, list unfinished topics and estimate the remaining work in study blocks. Separate learning time from explanation review and timed rehearsal. Moving every unfinished item into the six buffer days can produce a calendar that looks complete while leaving no time to check whether the learning worked.

Suppose you estimate 18 hours of remaining instruction, eight hours of question review and eight hours for a mock plus its review. That is 34 hours. If only three 10-hour weeks remain, the plan is short by four hours before any additional buffer. You must find realistic time, reduce genuinely redundant work or move the appointment; rewriting the same workload into smaller boxes does not solve the shortage.

Keep at least one representative task from every domain when prioritizing. A narrow weak area deserves extra attention, but dropping untouched domains entirely exchanges a visible weakness for a hidden one. Recheck the plan after the next retest rather than assuming a single catch-up weekend repaired everything.

Adapt for fewer hours or several parts

At five hours a week, the example 120-hour workload takes about 24 weeks. At 15 hours, it takes about eight weeks before buffer time. These are arithmetic scenarios, not research estimates of how long EA preparation takes.

To attempt all three parts within 90 days, first diagnose all three and build separate hour budgets. Do not compress three full beginner plans into one by deleting review. Tax experience may help some topics while leaving representation procedures or entity rules unfamiliar.

Use days 85-90 as a buffer and a controlled finish

The final six days are not six additional full learning days built into the 120-hour example. Use them for small unfinished tasks, short recall and appointment preparation. A large syllabus gap at this point calls for replanning, not an overnight attempt to replace several weeks of instruction.

If day 90 is your appointment, the example below keeps the preceding days light. If your sitting is later, preserve the same order relative to the appointment rather than forcing a test date to match an arbitrary calendar number.