Think of it like this: you're bringing the plane in for a landing. You need to guard against burnout and be sure to conserve your mental reserves as you get particularly close to the test. I usually tell my students that the final two to three weeks before a test is when you should be moving into the "polish" phase of study. You should have proven to yourself, through practice tests, that you are able to get a score you'd be happy with. Now's the time to polish the skills, aiming to make them more consistent. In this period you up the amount of practice tests you take and reduce the amount of review. You're trying to get things down to a mechanical process: the test maker hands you a test, you hand them back the score you want.
The final day before the test you should take off from study. The day before that should be a light day of study. That means that your last PT is three to four days before the test, because even though you're reviewing less, you do still want to review some.
Make sure to mind your health and those intangible benefits like being on a good sleep schedule, eating healthy, and getting exercise in those final two weeks. Your brain's carried around by your body, and if you don't treat your body right, your brain isn't going to function at its best.
Not a ton of advice on a specific schedule, but what's helped me is just taking a ton of practice tests. Starting with the oldest first so that I take the newer tests closer to the test date. I think it's helped me learn to deal with the fatigue of the exam, and encounter a lot of formats so I am familiar with every variation of question/question type. Don't burn yourself out tho.
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Think of it like this: you're bringing the plane in for a landing. You need to guard against burnout and be sure to conserve your mental reserves as you get particularly close to the test. I usually tell my students that the final two to three weeks before a test is when you should be moving into the "polish" phase of study. You should have proven to yourself, through practice tests, that you are able to get a score you'd be happy with. Now's the time to polish the skills, aiming to make them more consistent. In this period you up the amount of practice tests you take and reduce the amount of review. You're trying to get things down to a mechanical process: the test maker hands you a test, you hand them back the score you want.
The final day before the test you should take off from study. The day before that should be a light day of study. That means that your last PT is three to four days before the test, because even though you're reviewing less, you do still want to review some.
Make sure to mind your health and those intangible benefits like being on a good sleep schedule, eating healthy, and getting exercise in those final two weeks. Your brain's carried around by your body, and if you don't treat your body right, your brain isn't going to function at its best.
Not a ton of advice on a specific schedule, but what's helped me is just taking a ton of practice tests. Starting with the oldest first so that I take the newer tests closer to the test date. I think it's helped me learn to deal with the fatigue of the exam, and encounter a lot of formats so I am familiar with every variation of question/question type. Don't burn yourself out tho.