Depending on your schedule at work, it's totally doable to pull off studying and working full-time. I just sat for the July exam and will be taking September. I was putting in a solid 20-25 hours a week for about 14 weeks prior to the July test and felt good about the test. I didn't use any PTO to study but rather used a couple well-timed work-from-home days when I was really crunching on certain material.

All in all, IMO, not necessary if you pace yourself and work hard well in advance.

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The July test took about 5 weeks, can Oct and Nov test takers expect to wait 5 weeks as well? Anyone have any comments on this?

I think they said it'll go back to the previous return timeframe after the July test. Apparently they wanted to take extra time on the July to compare scores for paper vs. electronic since both were distributed.

Agreed^

Definitely down for this

It's not perfect, but it's pretty close in my opinion. I took the digital in July and I'm going to be using the problem set interface to practice going into the Sep test, if that's helpful.

Just do it