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How many lectures a day for CA Final?

Short answer, for a full CA Final attempt: about 2.2 lectures a day — which is 6h 36m of video, or 9h 54m once the notes and revision each lecture drags behind it are counted. Those last two are different numbers, and the gap between them is where most study plans quietly fail. Change the figures below to your own.

Why there are two hour figures and not one

A lecture is not finished when the video stops. There are notes to write, homework to do, and a summary to make before it is worth anything in the exam — and that work is not small. Measured against a real CA Final timetable, it runs at about half a lecture’s time again on top: a three-hour lecture carries roughly ninety minutes of notes and summary behind it.

So a syllabus advertised as 990h of lectures is really about 1,485h of work. A plan built on the first number looks a third cheaper than the thing it is planning, and the error only shows up in the last month, when there is nothing left to cut.

That ratio is not fixed, which is why it is a box you can change rather than a number baked in. Some papers are much heavier on practice than others — in the planner these figures come from, one paper’s written work ran at just over half its lecture time and another’s ran at more than double it. If you know yours, type it.

Where these starting figures come from

Starting figures come from a real CA Final planner: six papers, 330 lectures at 3 hours of video each, over a 150-day run-up. Change any of them.

• Financial Reporting100 lectures
• Advanced Financial Management70 lectures
• Advanced Auditing50 lectures
• Direct Tax60 lectures
• Indirect Tax50 lectures
• Total330 lectures

At 3 hours of video each, that is 990h of lectures — and you can check that by eye, which is the point of using a round number rather than a decimal that looks measured.

If the answer says you are short

Being short is information, not a verdict — but only if you act on it early. There are four honest levers and no others:

• More hours a day. The one everybody reaches for, and the one with the hardest ceiling.
• More days. Starting a week earlier is worth more than an hour a day added in the last month.
• Fewer lectures. Faculty run at very different lengths for the same paper. A shorter batch is a real choice.
• Less rewatching. The hours above assume you watch each lecture once. Most plans quietly assume otherwise.

What does not work is planning against the video figure and hoping the notes fit in the gaps. They do not fit; they are half the work.

Tracking it, rather than calculating it once

A number on a page goes stale the first day you fall behind. Lectrix does this arithmetic continuously against what you have actually ticked off — it packs the lectures you have left into the days you have left, around your sleep, your commitments and your days off, and tells you plainly whether you are still on for the date. It is free for fifteen days and there is no card.

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