@zubairs no apologizing! Are you working while studying for the exam? If not, I think it's totally do-able in 3 weeks. If so, prepare to not sleep lol.
Tax will be tough, and law because some of the law things probably will not seem “natural” to you since you've grown up under a different system.
I have a huge advantage because I work mostly in tax at my current position so some of the rules are second-nature to me. BUT all the really hard rules the software does for you… so I still had to memorize that.
My method of studying when I am in crunch time is to watch the lectures quickly, give myself one day between lecture & then work the MC, and memorize what didn't “stick” by reading the answers to the questions and the rationalization of what is wrong/what isn't wrong. I never have memorized any of the mnemonics or lists of things because I find I work better almost going “backwards” by just knowing what types of things will get asked and being able to know the material in such a way that I can rationalize through it to the answer.
So, all that being said I don't know if I, personally, would wait through that whole first week to work ANY MC. I would go after a topic, work MC, and go after the next topic. Essentially giving your brain time to absorb all the rules.
So my study time looks like this: (when cramming)
First day: Go through about 3 topics (A,B,C) reading/taking notes/absorbing (I saw one person using becker not using the lectures went through & still marked up his book from the software & I thought that was a brilliant idea if you are wanting to use the Becker book to study. I haven't seen any of the Ninja material except the flashcards so I'm not really sure about them).
Second day: Go through one topic (D) reading. Go through 2 topics (A,B) w MC. Study 2 topics (A,B) things not understand.
Third day: Go through one topic (E) reading. Go through 2 topics (C,D) w MC. Study 2 topics (C,D) things not understand. Re-work MC 2 topics (A,B) questions I missed yesterday(NOTE: on the re-visit I only work the problems I missed, NOT all of them, that would be crazy). Revisit things I SUPER not understand from those 2 old topics (A,B).
Fourth day: Go through 2 topics (F,G) reading. 2 topics (D,E) MC. Study D,E things not understand. Re-work C,D MC missed yesterday. Revisit things still not understanding.
Fifth day: Read H,I. MC F,G. Study F,G. Re-work D,E. Study D,E.
Sixth day (saturday): Read J,K. MC H,I. Study H,I. Re-work F,G. Study F,G & then do 1-2 groups of 30 of those “review” things you can do in Becker where it gives it to you random. In this “review” I try to do it how I would in a test & keep it in that time limit. That's why I typically do 30.
Sunday: Whatever strikes your fancy (aka force yourself to work those dang SIMS) hahaha
This plan can be strung out over days & just use that format according to the time you have and what you can get through, or if you aren't working you can add more topics per day that you are going through. This way though, you are getting more immediate feedback & by re-visiting topics 3 days in a row like that, you are getting that study benefit of actually putting it into LT memory without having to hard-core MEMORIZE, which is hard to sustain. I also would say that some days I am just really grooving in the MC & actually “enjoying” it, so I might mess up my plan and work more MC topics than I have read and then the next day have to read more to make up for it so I have enough for MC the next day.
Also keep in mind the only time I ever sustained that sort of schedule was for FAR and that was bc I was a crazy loon and my husband cooked all meals for me 🙂
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