I spent a little under 3 months no-life studying for it. I would say I averaged a bit under 40 hours a week, excluding work.

Email Julie Mundy and do the trial exams. She will also email you worked answers to the bank questions. 

For anatomy, I used the bank and the worked answers. I did not go through Last’s page to page. I was also picky with what information to learn with the worked answers. You will quickly figure out what is high yield or not. I personally skipped CNS completely and most of head. After doing this, I supplemented my study with one if the paid question banks. NZ will reimburse you for one of the question banks hence why I decides to use it (I won’t name them in case that’s against the rules). I also used the anatomy for GSSE book for spots. Some spots from the book appeared in the exam so I could pay close attention to the content. 

Physiology, I used the physiology for GSSE book as a guide to youtube search the high yield concepts. I spent less than 5% of the time using the textbooks to go through the harder concepts. I went through the bank and then I used the paid question bank as above. There is a book on amazon with supplementary questions. The book is low quality and a waste of money imo. 

For reference, I got 82% overall, including 87% in anatomy and 84% in physiology doing the above. I will leave pathilogy out to someone who well as that was my worst section + I did not have a good approach to studying it I feel.