How many weeks did you actually study for RSS? Be honest

What helped me most with practice test specifically: stop thinking about it as a topic to memorize and start thinking about the types of decisions it's asking you to make. Once I shifted to that frame, my RSS scores in that section jumped about 13 points within a week.

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

The advice about understanding why wrong answers are wrong — not just memorizing right ones — is genuinely the best RSS advice in this thread. Rebuilt my prep around that and it made a real difference.

Honestly? 6 weeks is plenty if you actually use them. I work full time too and I did about the same as you, an hour or two after dinner most nights, sometimes nothing on the weekends because life happens. The trick for me wasn't cramming more hours in, it was being consistent. I'd do one section a night and then just hammer practice questions until I stopped getting the same stuff wrong. Don't try to read every page front to back. You'll burn out and you won't remember half of it anyway.

What really moved the needle was reviewing my wrong answers instead of chasing new material. I kept a little note on my phone of topics I kept blanking on and hit those again the next night. By week 5 I was scoring high enough on the practice tests that I actually felt calm walking in. So yeah, 1-2 hours a night for 6 weeks got me there, and I'm not some genius who tests well. Just show up every night and trust it. You've got this.