Anyone found good free CCC study resources besides the obvious ones?

Quick data point: I spent 8 weeks studying, 2-3 hours a day, and passed with a 86%.

The section on CCC exam took me the longest to feel confident about. Eventually I just drilled practice questions until I could answer them without hesitation.

What testing center did you end up booking? Some of them have much shorter wait times than others right now.

Failed first attempt, came back to this thread. The consensus on ccc practice test being the make-or-break area is right. Focusing almost exclusively on applied questions this time around.

Great discussion. One thing nobody mentions: sleep the night before matters more than one more study session. Went in fully rested for my CCC and felt sharper than expected.

Same boat here — I've been grinding through study materials for the past couple months and the free stuff is genuinely hard to find. Most of what shows up in search results is just landing pages for $300 courses that may or may not be worth it.

Quick question for anyone who's further along: which domain is actually the hardest to nail down? I keep going back and forth between Career Development Theory and the Counseling Skills section. The theory stuff I can memorize okay, but applying it to case scenarios in a timed setting trips me up every time. Like I'll recognize that something is a Holland code situation but then second-guess which intervention actually fits. Is that something that gets easier with more practice tests, or is there a specific way people are studying those application questions?

Also curious if anyone's found good case study breakdowns anywhere — the kind that walk through the reasoning, not just give you the answer. That's the piece I feel like I'm missing.