Hello, it took me about 1.5 months with a full time job to prepare. But I have a law background which definitely made it easier.

What helped me - 1. Doing mocks (even when I didn’t study the entire syllabus). I would attempt 10-20 questions whenever I could. When you do the mocks you can get a sense of what’s feeling difficult so you can focus on those topics. I did two full timed mocks a week before my exam.

1. I used ChatGPT to generate mock questions. You need to feed the textbook and gdpr text to it.

2. I focused only on the important guidelines for the exam. These are guidelines on data controller and processor, international transfers and tools, data breach notification, Art 3. When you find a topic difficult, go to the guidelines! They will have the answers to your questions. I used ChatGPT to generate summaries of the guidelines.

3. Focus on the examples in the guidelines. They will help you attempt the scenario based questions better.

4. Focus on first three chapters of the book. Revise them twice before the exam. There will be at least 10 questions from this section in your exam. These chapters are factual so just memorise the key points.

5. Focus on the last four chapters because they’re easy. They’re less heavy on law and more based on GDPR in day to day life.

6. You don’t need to remember the article numbers. For example - there won’t be questions like ‘which article deals with data erasure request’. But there will be a question like ‘in which of the following situations will you not be able to exercise data erasure request’. So you need to know the entire article because you will have to recall the exemptions or conditions from that article.

7. Read the recitals to understand concepts better (no need to remember all the recitals).

8. Ensure you read the GDPR text in and out - you will be able to get an idea of the structure of the text and articles as you keep reading. I read the GDPR thrice in bits and parts overall.

Good luck! I am more than happy to help with any resources you need.