How to Pass the Enrolled Agent Exam: A Study Plan That Works

Most people who fail a part do so not because the content is beyond them but because they studied unevenly, missed the current-year figures, or had never sat 100 questions under time pressure. A plan that fixes those three things works.

A six-week plan per part

• Weeks 1-3: work through the topics for the part in order of domain weight. Read the study note, answer the topic questions, and review every explanation, including for the ones you got right.
• Week 4: drill your weakest domain with timed domain drills and redo every missed question until you can say why each wrong option is wrong.
• Week 5: sit two full practice exams under real conditions: 100 questions, three sections that lock, 3.5 hours.
• Week 6: review, then a final full practice exam on unseen questions. Book when you are consistently well above our 70% benchmark.

Habits that move the score

• Learn the 2025 figures cold, especially the ones the One Big Beautiful Bill Act changed.
• Do the arithmetic every time; calculation items have distractors built from common mistakes.
• Read EXCEPT questions twice.
• Pace yourself at about 2 minutes a question, and finish each section before the break.

Start with the free practice exam to find your baseline.