u/Ok_Philosophy_3258

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Go/ Not Go for the EXAM

I’d like your opinion. I’m currently scoring around 80–85% in both adaptive mode and practice tests, and I’ve made significant progress in understanding the underlying logic.

However, I have one concern that affects my confidence. At this point, I feel I almost know every answer in the Q&A, which makes me unsure whether I truly understand the material or if I’m answering correctly simply because I’ve reviewed the questions many times.

Since I don’t feel there’s much more, I can gain from the Q&A right now, I’m wondering whether I should move to Pocket Prep to cross-check my knowledge and enhance my confidence, or just go ahead and book the exam for next week. I’d appreciate your opinion on this.

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u/Ok_Philosophy_3258 — 5 days ago
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I would like to share that last period I'm trying a different methodological approach for the Q&A to better prepare for the exam. I am not sure whether this approach fully makes sense, but I believe it is important to prepare at the highest possible level.

To that end, I have customized practice tests covering all domains BUT including only the “Difficult” and “Expert” questions as at the moment I can easily answer the rest question levels. So my overall score was only 62.5% (596 total questions: 373 correct and 223 incorrect).

Now, I will review the incorrect questions to better understand the underlying logic. Some people say the questions on the actual exam are easier, while others say the opposite. Ultimately, it makes sense not to rely on others’ opinions and to focus on preparing as thoroughly as possible for yourself.

I'm planning to sit for the exam by the end of May or early days of June. I've read many topics here in the forum for different sources of preparation e.g. AIO, study guide, Review Manual 16, Peter Zerger’s YouTube videos, well I've read all those things, and I must say that are all useful in order to take the knowledge, but nothing more.  After that, you must focus only with the Q&A in order to understand the ISACA mindset. So that's the reason that I have strangled myself for the last 4-5 months. I hope this approach will lead me eventually to highest scores but again as I've read, many have achieved highest scores on Q&A and on the actual exam fail and some other the opposite. What to say.. no pattern. Do you think that i should also try a different test engine for crosschecking my knowledge, or to stay only on that?

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u/Ok_Philosophy_3258 — 26 days ago