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

Great discussion here. One thing I'd add that hasn't come up: sleep the night before is genuinely more important than one more study session. I went in fully rested for my SL and felt sharper on the practice test questions than I expected. Don't underestimate recovery time.

Quick update for this thread: just cleared 78% on my most recent SL practice set. The sl lead generation has been my main resource and the difficulty feels right — not easy enough to give false confidence, not so hard it's discouraging. Sitting for the real thing in 3 weeks.

Honestly I'm in the same boat as you, so take this with a grain of salt — I'm on week 3 of my own SL prep, also working full time, same 1-2 hours after the kids are down. Five weeks at that pace should be fine for the knowledge stuff, but what's eating my time is the situational judgment scenarios, not the straight recall questions. The "pick the BEST response and the WORST response" format messes with me because two of the answers always feel right.

Quick question for anyone further along than me though — which part actually tripped you up most on the real thing? I keep going back and forth on whether to grind the customer conflict / de-escalation scenarios or the team coverage and scheduling math. I've got the product and policy stuff down cold at this point, but those judgment questions where you're ranking responses feel impossible to "study" for in the normal sense. Did practicing them actually move the needle for you, or is it more of a you-get-it-or-you-don't thing?