AFC study plan
AFC · Give each week a clear focus.
8 weeks · About 6 hours per week
Education & Exam
Map the full Education domain into a one-page outline of its subtopics
Define every key term in the Education domain in your own words
Draft 20 original recall questions on Education fundamentals
Set up a spaced-repetition deck seeded with Education terms
Your checkpoint
One-page Education outline plus a 20-card spaced-repetition deck
Education & Exam
Explain the Education domain's core frameworks aloud without notes
Compare and contrast the main instructional or learning models covered
Work 15 practice items and log each miss with its root cause
Rewrite your weakest three explanations from memory
Your checkpoint
Error log of 15 practice items with root-cause notes per miss
Exam & Experience
Outline the Exam domain's structure and testing format
Identify the highest-weight subtopics and rank them by expected yield
Build a timed practice set and record your baseline score
Diagnose your three most frequent error patterns
Your checkpoint
Baseline timed practice score with a written error-pattern diagnosis
Experience & Exam
Map the Experience domain into its component competencies
Draft concrete examples from your own background for each competency
Rehearse each example aloud in under two minutes
Cross-check your examples against Exam-domain expectations
Your checkpoint
Written bank of at least eight personal experience examples
Experience & Exam
Refine the weakest experience examples using a structured story format
Practice responding to follow-up questions on each example
Run a half-length timed Exam-domain set and compare to baseline
Update your error log with new misses
Your checkpoint
Revised experience bank plus a half-length timed score comparison
Ethics & Education
Outline the Ethics domain's principles and decision rules
Apply the ethical framework to five written scenarios
Identify common ethical pitfalls and how to avoid them
Revisit Education-domain weak spots flagged in your error log
Your checkpoint
Five written scenario analyses applying the ethics framework
Ethics & Experience
Resolve ten ethics practice scenarios and justify each choice
Rehearse experience answers under time pressure
Review all error-log entries and re-test the missed concepts
Consolidate a one-page cheat sheet across all four domains
Your checkpoint
One-page cross-domain cheat sheet plus a re-test of prior misses
Education & Exam & Experience & Ethics
Take two full-length timed practice exams under test conditions
Review every miss and close remaining gaps in the error log
Recite your experience examples and ethics rules from memory
Finalize a test-day timing and pacing strategy
Your checkpoint
Two full-length timed scores with a completed, closed-out error log
Milestones
Week 2: Can explain all Education-domain core frameworks from memory without notes
Week 4: Baseline timed score recorded and eight personal experience examples written
Week 6: Ethics scenarios analyzed in writing and Education weak spots re-tested
Week 8: Two full-length timed exams completed with error log fully closed out