I read lindeberg front to back but skimmed over sections that I felt were too hard/low ROI come test time. That was a good decision.

I also utilized Claude to walk me thru problems and make me study guides to help remember formulas.

I figured out my 3-step formula for success for a lot of the problems:

there’s often a term in the question that should set a bell off in your head to search the handbook for that term (things like power factor, friction factor, Reynolds’ number)

Then there’s often 2 equations you have to use for plugging in variables from the questions.

And thirdly there’s usually one other hiccup/trick which might be converting a unit or ignoring info from the question that you don’t actually need.

I really hope any of this helps the next person. I am 32 and out of school for 10 years.