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Going through the same here but ready to take the test. The key for me was little bits at a time. It is so incredibly boring and the only challenging parts, for me were physics problems. Even those were pretty simple, once you get past the obnoxious way that PADI tries to lump metric and Imperial into the same problem, then does conversions without explaining what they converted.I'm far from a science guy. If that's not enough, I'm a hands-on learner. So this material being self-study sucks! I did OW in a classroom but THIS has to be self study?!! Oh well...back to it.
Same here. I have trouble recalling the exact steps for the 20 skills. Nothing to "self study" until PADI comes out with the new video (discussed in another thread). So I just have some notes I jotted down after our pool sessions months ago. I probably could have aced the 8 written tests just as well with just the home study. Probably didn't need any classroom to do that, though you obviously pick up a lot in the classroom as well. I often wonder how much of the total theory (and other required) knowledge a DM ever really uses--what % of the total learned is used? Maybe seasoned pros can respond.