Just over a month before the exam and time to step up the studying.  I made it through final exams at school and am now ready to dedicate much more time to the CTP exam.  Right now I am almost finished with chapter 3.  My goal is to get through 2-3 chapters per week. I know it is going to be a little bit of a struggle with the holidays but it is something that has to be done. 

I’ve stayed committed to my studying time at work on Friday afternoons for the past two weeks.  I’ve read the chapter and highlighted the answers to the questions at the end.  When I’ve come to a difficult to understand concept I took a note of it so I can go back at a later time and review it so I can get a better understanding of this material.

Unfortunately, I intended on getting a lot of reading done this weekend but I spent a lot of time preparing for Christmas.  Now that I’m mostly caught up on my holiday to do list studying should be much easier.  I’m going to come up with a schedule that I will have to hold myself to for studying so that I don’t feel so overwhelmed. 

Over the next few weeks my biggest obstacle to overcome is going to be myself.  I know that I have issues with procrastination.  I need to hold myself accountable from here on out and make sure that I set accomplishable goals to keep myself on track.  I start back to school one week before the exam so I would like to have the good understanding of the material. 

My biggest take away so far in the preparation for this exam is the importance of taking a very large amount of information and splitting it into smaller more manageable pieces.  I even applied this idea to my classes this past semester and it makes the subject so much easier to understand.   Studying for the exam will be go very smoothly if I can stay focused on taking each chapter and breaking it into smaller pieces that will be easier to understand and review.