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AFC · Give each week a clear focus.

8 weeks · About 6 hours per week

Week 1

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

Week 2

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

Week 3

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

Week 4

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

Week 5

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

Week 6

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

Week 7

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

Week 8

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