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Dec 2022
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Episode 22: How long should you spend pr...

Orion Taraban
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This is the million-dollar question. Unfortunately, it's difficult to answer categorically, as there are a lot of individual differences between students. That said, there are ways that students can answer that question for themselves with greater specificity. The key is to get greater clarity into one's baseline performance and one's target scores. In this episode, we'll discuss how to do just that. Oh, and most people spend between two and three months preparing for the test.

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