I’m under the school of thought that says we aren’t robots. I haven’t researched it in a while (in college I learned a lot about it), but everything that I read said indicated quality is better than quantity. I went to bed early to wake up early to study level 1. This way I wasn’t tired after a day of work – although a hard schedule to get on at first, my retention increased dramatically. When I studied on weekends, I’d study a few hours. Do some cardio exercise, study some more. Than take a couple hour break, go out with friends etc, then come back A lot of “Learning” occurs in the background, so I always wanted to thoroughly review and then give myself adequate time to absorb it. This kind of strategy is how I studied less than almost everyone in college, yet graduate top of the class. Don’t know how well I did on Level 1 given I only prepared for 3 months and by the second test session, I was too exhausted to grade my exam based on probabilities like the first exam. But regardless of outcome, I still think smart studying instead of alot of studying works much better, just compared to peers who took the test and studied way more, yet knew way less.
May want to check out Cal Newport’s blog on how to study effeciently.