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

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.

The Anki flashcard tip is something more people need to hear. I have a ABA 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.

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 ABA exams are weighted by domain, and knowing which domains carry more weight changes how you allocate study time.

Just wanted to pop in with an update since I've been following this thread. I took a practice test last weekend and scored a 74, which honestly surprised me because I wasn't feeling great about the material going into it. Still need to work on the ethics section but everything else is starting to click.

I'm planning to sit for the real thing on July 19th so I'm basically right at the halfway point of prep time. Your schedule has been really helpful for structuring my weeknights, I'd been kind of scattered before finding this. Thanks for posting it.

This is almost exactly what I did, and I'll say the schedule thing was the hardest part for me to get right. I've got two kids and I was commuting 45 minutes each way, so those early morning slots before anyone woke up became my study time. Didn't touch the content until I felt like I actually had a system in place. The free aba hair scalp care questions were honestly some of the most useful practice I found because they're specific enough to actually test your knowledge instead of just making you feel good about yourself.

One thing I'd add is don't skip the application questions even when you're tired. It's tempting to just do the easy multiple choice and call it a night but those scenario-based ones are what the actual exam leans on. I wasn't spending more than 90 minutes most days and still felt prepared. You just have to be consistent more than you have to be intense about it.