@Hiracpa,
I didn't see your post to me until just yesterday.
I studied consistently for the exam for months, putting in about 5 to 7 hours 3 to 4 days a week.
I did all the Wiley MCQs from one test bank and did half of another test bank. I also worked through nearly all the Sims that Wiley gave.
BY the day before the exam, either I was ready or not. I did a lesser amount of MCQs than normal, and after dinner didn't touch a book or computer. I watched a foreign film with the wife and then made sure to get sleep. Then the morning of exam, I got up and went through the little binder of notes (320 dog eared pages so far) and drove up to the testing center through what I thought were just heavy rains.
Even practicing for time, I found it a little of an issue. One of the sims before the break gave me trouble, and I think I would have made more effort to get it >80% correct if not in need of bathroom (yep, the classic exam clencher). Between that and feeling a little rocked by an early MCQ- I don't know if I passed.
As Mtaylo24 said, it might have come down to the research question. That is quite a decisive 7pts.
I studied hardest and longest for this exam, but it is a time cruncher.
Under pressure, I sometimes get dyslexic with my journal entries and might have bunged up there worse than I know.
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