[R2016]

I am currently in a live Becker class for BEC and I would like to hear your thoughts on when I should schedule my exam. I had my first class this past Saturday 9-12 but haven’t even looked at the multiple choice questions so I am already behind. To try to get on track I plan on spending 3 hours tonight going through B1 questions and 3 hours tomorrow going through B2 questions. The last class day is September 26th and I was planning on taking the first two weeks of October to finish the homework for the Becker Promise and as a final review then take my exam on October 18th. I am thinking about pushing it back until November. My NTS expires on November 13th so I was thinking Sunday Nov. 8th. But I will be out of the country and unable to study from October 24-31st. (I will have long flights and layovers so I could squeeze some review/MC questions in then at the most). This would cause a gap in my studying but I would have a week of review after returning home before the test date on 11-8. So what do you think? Should I take the exam Oct 18th before I go out of the country or in November after not studying for a week then doing a final review week?