So I've been at this for about four months now and I'm honestly starting to question whether I'm cut out for IT. Failed Core 1 the first time with a 620 (passing is 675), studied harder, failed again with a 648. I'm using a mix of Professor Messer's videos and a study guide I picked up on Amazon, but something clearly isn't clicking.
The thing is, I feel like I understand the material when I'm reading it. It's when I sit down for the actual exam that I freeze up on the weird edge-case questions about hardware compatibility and networking troubleshooting scenarios. A friend told me I should be doing way more IT practice test questions than I am — I'm doing maybe 50-100 per session but mostly reviewing the same ones.
Has anyone else hit this wall? I've got about six weeks before I can afford to pay for another attempt. What actually worked for you? Any exam tips for the scenario-based questions specifically would be huge right now.