My 8-week ACC study schedule (free resources only)

Great breakdown. One thing I'd add to Week 1: look at the score breakdown from your baseline practice test — not just the overall score. Most ACC exams are weighted by domain, and knowing which domains carry more weight changes how you allocate study time.

The Anki flashcard tip is something more people need to hear. I have a ACC deck with about 200 cards covering all the key terms and formulas. Doing 20 cards/day during my lunch break added up faster than I expected.

What do you think about condensing this to 4-5 weeks if I can do 2-3 hours per day? I have a test date that's sooner than I'd like and trying to figure out if I can make it work.

This is gold. Saving and sharing with my study group. The "stop studying 24 hours before" advice is underrated — I bombed an exam once because I crammed until midnight and couldn't think straight in the morning.

This is such a solid schedule. One thing I'd add — when you're doing practice questions, don't just move on after you get something right. I spent way too much time in weeks 3-4 just checking "correct" and clicking next, and it didn't really stick. What actually helped me was treating wrong answers like a puzzle: why did the test writers put that option there? Usually it's because it's almost right, or it tests a common misconception. Once I started thinking that way my scores jumped way faster than when I was just grinding reps.

For the meridian and anatomy sections specifically, I found the free acc meridian theory anatomy questions really useful for exactly this reason — the explanations break down why the distractors are wrong, not just what the right answer is. That's the kind of active review that actually transfers to the real exam. It's slower than just doing 50 questions in 20 minutes, but honestly you'll get more out of 15 questions done that way than 100 done on autopilot.