I've been chasing this certification for almost a year now and honestly I'm embarrassed it took me this long to figure out what I was doing wrong. First two attempts I scored a 68 and then a 71 — so close but not close enough. I was basically just rereading the same material and hoping something would click.
What actually turned things around was switching to active recall. I started grinding through an SRS practice test every single day for the last three weeks before my third attempt, and I mean timed, no notes, treating each one like the real thing. That alone exposed gaps I didn't even know I had — especially in the reliability engineering and systems safety sections, which I'd been underestimating.
Also finally sat down with a decent SRS study guide that broke down the domain weighting, because I was spending way too much time on stuff that shows up maybe twice on the exam. Passed with an 82 on attempt three. Happy to share more specific exam tips if anyone's in the same boat I was.