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The one-week plan
- Day 1: Learn the official format and take a short baseline set.
- Day 2: Review ethics, fairness, confidentiality, and proportional escalation.
- Day 3: Complete timed typed scenarios and audit unfinished answers.
- Day 4: Record video responses and review your openings.
- Day 5: Practice personal and reflective questions using real experiences.
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The one-month plan
Week one establishes format familiarity and a baseline. Week two focuses on recurring reasoning patterns. Week three increases time pressure and mixed practice. Week four uses full simulations, targeted correction, and lighter final review.
- Use three focused sessions and one longer simulation per week.
- Keep an error log with categories such as assumption, vagueness, timing, and disproportionate escalation.
- Re-answer selected scenarios after 48 hours without reading your old response.
- Include video practice every week rather than postponing it.
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What not to do
- Do not collect dozens of frameworks and switch between them.
- Do not judge progress only by an AI score or word count.
- Do not practice exclusively untimed.
- Do not ignore the official sample test and technical requirements.
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Your final readiness check
You are ready when you can reach a defensible decision quickly, explain uncertainty without freezing, finish both typed questions, and deliver a coherent one-minute response without relying on a script.