Took a free webinar last month on study techniques since my exam is in 2 months and I’ve been doing the “read it again” thing forever, turns out that barely works.
The one thing that stuck: active recall beats rereading by a mile, but only if you close the material first. The instructor had us try it live, read a page, close it, write down everything we remembered before checking. I felt dumb the first time, remembered maybe half.
Been doing it since, 20 minutes before I switch to practice questions. Still forget stuff, but the parts I struggled to recall stick way better than the parts I just reread.
Also started doing it during breaks between client calls instead of scrolling, which helps with the sitting-all-day thing too since I’m off the laptop for those 20 minutes.
Not sure it moves the needle on the exam but it’s the first method that felt different from rereading highlighted text for the hundredth time.