@teeteenouche Glad that I could help! 🙂 I read your post, and I can't remember saying what you referenced…but I'm definitely a fan of last-minute review, so glad that it was useful for you!
@rigouventura I'm a bad student…so not nearly as many hours as I should have. haha! I would aim to study for 2 hours 2 nights a week (when my BF worked) and a good day one weekend day (which would be about 6 hours – I can't do much more in a day!). I'd also study every-other Wednesday, again like 6 hours. So, that would average to about 13 hours a week, when I actually met my goals.
My studying had 2 parts. The first part was reading the book – I'd get the book and a bottle of water and go sit down and read. I found that sitting outside worked best for my warmer-month tests, but that's a personal thing. (Also that little motivators went a long way with me – I'd get Smarties candy and count the pages in my chapter, then set out one Smartie per page on something nearby, and eat one each time I completed a page – the candy plus the shrinking pile proved motivating!) Once stage 1 was complete (every non-questions page in Wiley read), I'd move on to Stage 2: doing MCQs and a couple practice SIMs. I used WTB, so for these study-times, I'd sit down to WTB and select sets of 10 or 20 unseen questions in Practice Session. I'd read over the explanations for the ones I got wrong and try to make sure that I understood the topic well enough to be able to answer the next question on the topic correctly. If a topic continually tripped me up, I'd usually Google it to try to learn it from another source/viewpoint, and/or re-read the section in the Wiley book.
So, that ^ is how exactly I studied! I usually planned on about 25-30 hours to read the book (again, this is reading, not taking notes or detailed studying) and then about .5 – 1 minute per MCQ depending on the test.
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