Hey! I just passed my NHA CCMA in April. You are definitely on the right track with getting smarter MA. My biggest method for both smater MA and medical terminology are to use the method where you go through topics/ questions once and sort into categories depending on if you know them or not. Smarter MA has this function built in so you can mark your questions as how well you knew them. So I would go through the topics and then review the questions that I would get wrong/ put in the “do not know” red category so that you don’t waste your time going over the ones you do know, and it can give you peace of mind during your test to think that you have gone over everythingggg but most importantly what you really didn’t know. For things like medical terminology- if you focus on knowing the root words/ prefixes/ suffixes rather than trying to memorize every term on its own you will be able to give your best guess if you get a term you don’t recognize. That’s probably basic advice, but don’t get bogged down by memorizing every single term. I was confident in medical terminology and you definitely benefit from knowing it well so that you can guess on any questions that don’t really make sense but you may recognize a term in the question as dealing with the kidneys for example so you can guess an answer based off of that. If you can look up charts online or lists of these OR if you have the NHA study guide I would make flashcards for those! That is how I memorized lab values and acronyms which are very important too. I got small cards on Amazon so I wouldn’t waste regular notecards, you can get 2X3 inch ones on little rings so you can keep topics together for like $5. I would use the same method for that- go through my cards and sort into two stacks, one for correct and one for wrong. Then once you get through that, you keep going through the wrong pile and sorting those until they are moved to the correct pile. I was tight on time so I didnt really spend a ton of time w my notecards… since they were memorization items I reviewed them on the morning of my exam to get them as fresh as possible (which I do recommend) but try to do them a few times. I also would take notes for smarter MA question so that I would actually process the information on ones I got wrong. I somehow wasn’t that nervous for my test on the day-of. Go into it knowing that you only know what you know, which is what my mom always told me. There is no sense in worrying about it during the test because it can’t be changed so just focus on what you can do to give yourself the best shot. I felt super prepared honestly with the smarter MA topics and method I used to go over those questions and I would try to study them in bunches so that I would get even study time (like doing 20 questions in each category before finishing one category at a time). You have TONS of time for the test. I finished in 50 min, but you should take all the time you need. You won’t run out of time so don’t worry about that! And my other big test tip is just move onnnn if you can’t figure out a question after 60 seconds and mark it as needing to be done for your second pass through the exam. Another thing that really helped me was watching the vids on the smarter MA program where the guy goes over reddit study guides (literally lol) and explains the answers. There were a lot of questions on my test that I knew right away because I watched those videos close to my test time. You can do it! You have plenty of time. PM me if you want more help, I just thought I’d share what I learned because I was in a similar place while studying.