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With the recent announcement of its first neutrino sightings\footnote{see section \ref{sect:results} for more information}, its clear that NO$\nu$A will bring with it a new level accuracy in experimental neutrino physics. It is the first of its kind to be long enough in order to observe matter effects on neutrino oscillations, in order to uncover more information about the mass hierarchy of the various neutrino flavors. However, as discussed in section \ref{sect:cp} and shown in figure \ref{fig:results-cp}, the probability of oscillating between various flavors is highly dependent on the amount by which charge and parirty conservation hold, therefore NO$\nu$A is actually studying two phenomenon at once. While this is not necessarily bad, it makes it hard to obtain unequivocal data concerning the neutrino mass hierarchy.   In order to combat, this \cite{Ghosh_2013} suggests using the data from other neutrino experiements like T2K, INO, and other reactor experiments to accent the data coming from NO$\nu$A in order to obtain better information about solar neutrinos since their propagation is not as highly dependent on the CP violating phase.