A study plan built around what you need to learn

The course connects three things: what the exam covers, what you can already do, and the skills you still need to practice. Your work shapes what comes next.

Start with an assessment.

Answer questions across the exam's subject areas to set a starting point. If you do not know an answer, choose "I don't know". The purpose is to find useful work for you, not to reward guessing.

Learn the steps before working on your own.

A new skill begins with a short lesson and a worked example. Then you solve practice questions using the same method, with an explanation after each answer.

Build the skills that harder problems depend on.

Topics are broken into small skills, and some skills depend on others. A new skill opens once you have learned the skills it relies on.

Missed it twice? Your plan goes back a step.

A missed question gives you an explanation. Missing the same skill on two separate days brings the skills it depends on back into your plan, so you work on the cause before trying again.

Review earlier material as you progress.

Skills come back for review over time, at longer gaps as you keep getting them right. Harder problems that use an earlier skill count as practice of it.

Practice choosing the method.

Once you have started several skills, your daily list includes mixed questions from different skills and subject areas, with no lesson heading to tell you which method to use.

Check your work against the clock.

Timed practice exams follow the official outline's question counts and time limit. Where the course has enough questions, practice exams use questions kept apart from your daily practice, so a practice exam is not a replay of questions you have already seen.

Track what you can demonstrate.

Your progress page shows where you stand in each exam subject, in words, the days you have studied, your practice exam results and an estimated score once there is enough work to base it on. Each day's assigned work and what you completed is kept as your study record.

Set your exam date.

With a date set, your daily list paces new lessons toward it and adds timed practice exams in the final weeks. If the work left does not fit before the date, your daily list tells you.