Your exam is coming up and you're almost done with your prep — congratulations on making it this far! This last stretch follows a clear, repeatable structure, even though your Study Plan may look lighter than it did earlier on.
Why your plan looks lighter
Once you've finished the Learning Modules, your Study Plan naturally has fewer assignments each day. That's intentional: the last 1-2 months are about targeted review, not new content. Here's how to use that time.
The core cycle
Take a baseline practice exam. Use exam-day timing and conditions — no extra breaks, no pauses, quiet location. This gives you an accurate starting point.
Review it thoroughly. The next day (or after at least a 2-hour break), spend at least as long reviewing as you did testing. Stay on each question until you understand exactly what went wrong and what to change. Log your takeaways in your Lessons Learned Journal — squeeze every bit of insight out of that exam.
Prioritize your gaps. Rank what you found: put fundamental, high-yield gaps at the top of your list and lower-yield topics toward the bottom.
Fill your Study Plan, topic by topic. Pick 3-4 priority topics at a time and work through each one this way:
Start with a module to refresh the concepts and strategy (find modules under the Resources tab, searchable by topic)
Watch relevant Office Hours recordings (Live page → Past → filter by topic)
Add a few practice sets spaced out over the next week to solidify it
Sprinkle in mixed practice sets to stay fresh, but keep most of your time on your biggest opportunities
Build accuracy before speed. Do Qbank practice sets untimed or at 2x time first, and keep reviewing until your accuracy is where it needs to be. Only then start adding time pressure.
Take your next practice exam. Exams are the best predictor of exam-day performance, and each one reorders your priority list — so you're always spending time where it matters most.
How often to test
Scored much lower than you hoped on your first exam? Wait 3-4 weeks before your next one.
Otherwise, space exams 1-2 weeks apart, depending on your progress and how close you are to test day.
Repeat this cycle — exam, review, targeted modules and Office Hours, practice sets — gradually increasing time pressure as your accuracy improves, until you're ready for test day. You've got this!