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

I actually failed the first time by a few points. Total gut punch. But passed on the second attempt with a comfortable margin.

What changed: I stopped trying to memorize answers and started actually understanding the material. Specifically on CLL exam — I went back to basics and worked forward from first principles.

Also switched from reading to doing. Less time with the textbook, more time on practice questions with detailed answer explanations.

You've got this. The second attempt is always better because you know exactly what the exam is like.

Appreciate everyone sharing their experience here. I'm 4 weeks out from my CLL exam date and feeling more confident after reading this. The consensus on exam prep being the hardest section matches what I'm seeing in my practice scores — going to put extra time there this week.

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

I just passed CLL last month so I'll share the one thing that actually moved the needle for me. The practice tests are great for getting the format down, but what I was missing was understanding why the lean principles connect the way they do. So instead of just memorizing definitions, I started taking each wrong answer and writing out in one sentence why it was wrong. Sounds tedious. It wasn't, and it forced me to actually think instead of pattern matching.

The other free thing that helped more than I expected was just teaching the concepts to my coworker who had no idea what lean was. If you can explain value stream mapping or pull systems to someone who doesn't care, you actually know it. I didn't believe that until the exam, where half the questions were scenarios and not straight recall. The recall stuff you can cram. The scenario stuff you kind of have to internalize, and explaining it out loud got me there faster than rereading anything ever did.