There are key factors that could play a pivotal role in maximizing your effort in preparation for TDM Exam. In fact, the following is a summarized version of key points and common strategies expressed in multiple interviews with those who successfully dealt with an intensive exam such as TDM in a short period of time.

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Here is what they did when they didn’t have any courses available:

Planning Part:

  1. Based on the time in their hand they start the selection and deselection processes.
  2. Based on the info from their friends or what they have heard they selected their main source of study. Then categorized the topic into the most important topics, not sure and not important ones.
  3. Then they deselect by filtering out those not sure ones into topics should study and those I would study only if I have time. And as it is usually the case you will never have enough time, so basically it means deselecting those topics which took them a few days, but it was well worth it.

Doing the hard work: Trial & Error;

  1. Getting the whole picture
  2. They all took notes during their study.
  3. They refined their note taking focus and structure time and time again until it felt sufficiently efficient. Moving forward they gained a sense of what the key points vs trivial information are.
  4. Sometimes they had to rewrite the whole note as many a time they misunderstood the point in the first place or at least restructure it to make it clear and to the point.
  5. While time consuming the process of note-taking was, they emphasized, this proved to be instrumental in their revisions to be more efficient and less painful.

Real Deal

  1. They made sure of going through notes at least a couple of times to know them by heart
  2. Time Management on the Exam Day
  3. Being able to convey a short yet complete response

Honest feedback; Lessons Learned from those who passed.

  1. Those who passed had strong academic background to begin with.
  2. Planning ahead of time, allocating ample time and resources.
  3. Despite mentioning a few of those topics they thought were not important turned out to appear on the exam and they have been asked points they felt they are trivial, they all admitted that if they knew where to focus more and what should have been in their notes from the beginning or even better if they somehow had such organized notes handy, it would have cut their suffering, time and energy in half while multiplying their efficiency.
  4. Considering the fact that no courses can eliminate the need for putting sufficient personal effort to memorize key points, when asked whether they would have attended any prep courses had it been available, almost all emphatically said they would have. They reasoned that any well-organized courses can certainly cut the needed time and energy in half by pointing the High-Yield key materials, summarizing them, explaining confusing/ delicate differences in choices, clearing up misunderstandings and possibly providing a structured summary note. This simply enables you to put your personal time and energy to where it should be.