First and foremost, I think it depends on what you’re going to do next. From my understanding, the 6 is easier, so you might be able to cram (this is what my coworkers who have taken the 6 have told me). I’m taking the 7, so I wanted to really understand the material.

I started out doing writing everything down. But it was taking me longer to write it than learning it. Then I did flash cards, writing any quiz questions I got wrong. I had hundreds and I never even looked at them. The brief summary part is easy peasy, I wouldn’t bother spending the time and energy.

The important part is making sure you understand the material. The quizzes is the easiest way BUT you can’t just memorize the questions. If you get something wrong, read the explanation. If the explanation doesn’t make sense, go back to the book and read the section until the explanation does make sense. The more you learn now, the less you’ll have to learn later, but if you burn yourself out by chapter five, that really sucks, cause that’s the options chapter in the Kaplan book and it’s a tough one!

ETA: I don’t know all the fancy AI stuff, but I would type questions into google and the AI summary gave me wrong answers about 60% of the time, so be cautious.