How to structure your practice

Most practice plans you'll find start with "day 1: read chapter 1". That's the wrong order, and it's wrong for a simple reason: the plan doesn't know what you already know.

The order that works

1. Take a full practice exam. Don't read anything first. The point is to measure, and a measurement you've prepared for measures nothing.

2. Look at what you got wrong, not what feels hard. These are often two completely different lists. People are bad at guessing their own gaps.

3. Read up on those learning objectives. Just those. If you have three weak areas, that's three short texts, not an entire textbook.

4. Take another exam. New questions, same objectives. If you see progress on exactly those objectives, the studying worked.

5. Repeat until you pass with a margin, several times in a row.

How many times

Passing once doesn't mean much. The exam draws questions from a bank, so one good result could be a lucky draw. If you pass five in a row with a good margin, it's no longer luck.

About the time

The exam itself isn't what takes time. Half of the practice exams on our platform are finished in under 16 minutes, and four out of five in under 30. So you can run a full round of exam, studying and another exam in one evening.

How many evenings you'll need, nobody can tell you until you've taken the first exam.