Best free resources for CAADE prep — what's actually worth your time

Good thread. One thing I'd add: don't try to cram the night before. I did 2 hours the night before my CAADE and I think it hurt more than helped. Your brain needs consolidation time. Light review or full rest is better.

Good thread. One thing I'd add: don't try to cram the night before. I did 4 hours the night before my CAADE and I think it hurt more than helped. Your brain needs consolidation time. Light review or full rest is better.

Same experience here. The caade pharmacology of substances was what finally made it click for me — specifically the way it explains the reasoning rather than just giving answers. Took me 3 weeks of consistent practice but scores went from 69% to 87% by exam day.

Really helpful breakdown, thanks for sharing. I'm at week 2 of my CAADE prep and the study guide section is exactly where I'm struggling too. Going to try the approach you described and see if it moves my scores.

Congrats on putting this together, wish I'd found something like it before I started. I passed last month and honestly the one thing that made the difference for me was drilling pharmacology questions until I couldn't get them wrong anymore. Not just reading about the drug classes, actually testing myself on them. I'd been rereading my notes for weeks and it wasn't sticking. The free practice questions forced me to actually recall stuff like withdrawal timelines and which substances hit which receptors, and that's exactly what the exam went after.

If you're short on time, skip the passive review and go straight to question banks. Seriously. You'll figure out your weak spots in one session instead of guessing at them. I wasted a good month highlighting a textbook when I should've been doing practice tests from day one.