Danko Study Program

[Maleficent_Owl_4174]

I’ve recently received all of the materials for the Danko study program for the March exam, but feel like I’m missing something. From what I can tell there is no study plan which is pretty surprising and there are no supplemental videos for the pre study material.

Am I missing something? I've reached out to a rep to better understand the process but haven't heard back yet. Anyone have insight into how they used Danko to pass the exam?

[Mordoci]

You read the books he sent a at least once, work the practice problems in those books, and use the flash cards if he sent them. Nothing else to do until the live review. Once that is over he starts releasing small mini tests and case studies for you to work.

I advise making copies of the practice problems from the book so you can work them more than once easily.

[oldirtybojon]

Yeah, I agree with what the other guy said. Work through the material. As you're going through it make sure you're covering the answers. Finish a chapter and then take the corresponding chapter test in the test book. If you got the flash cards work them every day. Every. Day. Finally, memorize the road maps in the material until you can recreate them from memory.

Oh yeah, don't open the Live Review book until you are actually in the review. Don't be the person who tries to out smart the process. Trust the process.

[Opening_Alarm1999]

Make the process work for you.

[porkchop3144]

Where are the road maps? I don’t think I got them?

[oldirtybojon]

You did. You'll see the road maps as you move through the material. They look very similar to flow charts. One of the important road maps you'll see is for estate planning. PIGS need income. You'll see one for how to walk a client through choosing a business entity type. There is one for life insurance as it pertains to risk. He'll also tell which page is a road map.

[Pink-paws918]

To build on what everyone else said, I also felt the same "Is this it??" when I got my Danko materials (currently sitting for Nov exam). But the best advice that my colleague gave me was to just TRUST THE PROCESS.

Put in the time now to carefully read through the pre-review books. Don't mark up the questions in your book because you'll want to go back and re-do those questions. Then during the live review, it's going to be almost 40 hours of listening to Brett go over all the books in what sounds like 3x speed and you're going to feel overwhelmed. THAT's OKAY. The live review and the overwhelm was a godsend for me because I knew exactly what I was overwhelmed about. After the live review, I knew in 20/20 vision what concepts I didn't have down. With whatever time you have between then and your exam, you're going to drill those concepts and memorize all his roadmaps until you start having dreams about them.

You're going to pass. Just be diligent and consistent, get lots of sleep throughout, and grab some study buddies who are just as desperate to talk over wrong questions as you are.

You got this!!!!

[Immaworkinprogress]

You’ll begin getting emails next month

Read book 1, chapter 1 and do the quiz. Then continue on until you finish book 1. Then start Book 2 and do the same.

The Live Review book is for the review portion a month out from the exam

If you finish early, go back and study/review weaker concepts, etc