[nalratoss]

Sometimes when you’re tired or doesn’t want to study it’s better to take a break then come back later.

Been studying using Gleim non-stop for 6 days (non stop, one chapter per day). I average above 65% per chapter, in some chapters I get 85%. However, I didn’t get much sleep last night from studying chp 7—Internal control for payable and payroll and I still feel drowsy. It seems that whatever I read last night barely entered my head.

And so this morning the 1st adaptive quiz I “quit” after doing 10 questions, I just randomly guessed “ABCD ABCD” the remaining 15 questions of the quizlet. My mind enters into a mode where I rather learn by reading all the answer choices. Yep, a 35%.

Time to take a break, lol.

[Anonymous]

That's actually how I study. I group the MCQs by sections and do 100 MCQ sessions at a time. I make all the answer choices “A” and then when I actually study, I just go through the session results one by one of each MCQ since the question, answer, and explanations are all right there.

This has saved me hours and hours of study time from taking notes and wasting valuable time.

The only time I use the book is when I need a better understanding of a topic. But before I even use the book, I search the web and watch youtube videos on the topic.

With this method I get through 200-300 MCQs a week of studying them thoroughly including researching extra information on topics that interest me. With each exam section having 1,500-2,000 total practice MCQs, I can easily get through all the MCQs within 1-2 months at 2-4 hours of study every other day. (Can easily be done quicker if you wanted to study more intensely/rigorously…but I like my sanity…)

That leaves plenty of time to at least go through all the study areas once, then a week or two of final review to touch up on the weaker areas using the supplemental material and practicing a good amount of SIMs (which are a great comprehensive review).

[LawGuy]

Here is a technique that I find helpful: When answering MCQ's that involve a lot of time consuming calculations (such as FAR or REG questions), I will just recite the steps I would take to compute the answer and then check the answer to see if those steps would have resulted in a correct answer. I find this provides the same conceptual learning benefit as actually working the problem, without using up valuable focus and stamina performing pointless calculations. I find I'm able to cover a lot more ground this way, and it has served me well thus far.

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