Thirty days is enough if the time is spent well. Here's a plan built around three constraints: spaced repetition, weakness-weighted study, and at least one full mock before exam day.
Week 1 — calibrate
Start with a diagnostic. Not a chapter quiz — a focused diagnostic that samples across every major topic. The goal is to answer one question: where are you weakest?
Don't study everything in week one. Study the three topics where you scored below 60%. Do it with practice questions, not reading — you learn more per hour from answering and reviewing than from re-reading theory.
- Time budget: 8–10 hours
- Output: your top three weak topics, with ~75 questions practiced in each
Week 2 — breadth, then narrow
Fill in the middle tier. You already know where you're strongest (ignore those topics this week). Work through the topics you scored 60–75% on — they're recoverable without heavy effort.
Start logging your wrong answers. Not the topics — the specific misconceptions. "I thought agency duties ended at closing" is a misconception. "Agency" is not. Track these in a running list.
- Time budget: 8–10 hours
- Output: middle-tier topics above 75%, running misconception list
Week 3 — state portion + math
If you've been practicing national content, switch. The state portion is where most candidates underprepare. Two-thirds of your time this week goes to state-specific questions; the other third goes to math (the highest-leverage specific content area).
By the end of the week, you should be able to name all twelve math problem types without looking at a list, and identify each one from its setup language within five seconds.
- Time budget: 10–12 hours
- Output: state portion above 75%, math classified and practiced
Week 4 — simulate and compress
Take one full-length, timed mock exam early in the week. Don't skip this. Under real time pressure, with no notes, you'll surface pacing problems and content gaps you can't find any other way.
Spend the rest of the week reviewing mock results, retiring your misconception list, and drilling the five lowest-accuracy question categories. No new content in week four — just review and retention.
48 hours before the exam: stop studying. Sleep. Eat. Your Passd Score at that point is your Passd Score. Cram doesn't help; fatigue does hurt.
- Time budget: 10–12 hours
- Output: full mock complete, Passd Score above target, restful final 48 hours
One warning
If your diagnostic score is below 40%, thirty days isn't enough. You need to reset the timeline. That's not a marketing line — it's a math problem. Compressing study beyond a threshold hurts retention faster than it helps. Better to reschedule than to fail and restart.