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Credential study
A plan built from the exam content outline, questions that cite their source, and a loop that chases what you keep missing.
Studying without a question bank you trust
Rana is six years in and sitting an advanced critical care credential. She has three twelve hour shifts a week, two evenings that are genuinely free, and a content outline from the board that runs to a few dozen sections. The failure mode is not laziness. It is studying whatever the app served up tonight and finding out in month four that a third of the outline never came up.
The outline is the fix. It is the only document that says what the exam covers and in what proportion, so it is the document the plan gets built from, and the document every practice question points back at.
| The move | What you ask for |
|---|---|
| The plan | The outline split across the weeks and hours you actually have |
| The session | Questions one at a time, explanation after each, section named |
| The loop | Tonight weighted to what you missed, from your own miss log |
The plan
The file in this Project is the content outline for the credential I am sitting. I am Rana, a critical care respiratory therapist. I have nine weeks, three evenings a week, ninety minutes an evening, and two of those evenings fall after a night shift so keep those light. Turn the outline into a week by week plan. Weight the weeks by how much of the exam each section is worth according to the outline itself, put the heaviest sections early, and leave the final week for review only. Give it to me as a table with week, sections and the outline weighting, and name the outline section for every row.
The session
Questions Claude writes are not board questions and it has no view of the item bank. What it can do is drill one section at a time and make every explanation traceable, which is the part a paid question bank usually will not give you.
Ask me ten multiple choice questions on [name the outline section]. Use only the outline in this Project and the reference documents I have uploaded. Ask one question, wait for my answer, then tell me whether I was right, explain why, and end the explanation with the document name and page it came from. If a question you want to ask is not covered by the uploaded sources, say so and skip it rather than writing it from memory.
The loop
Rana keeps a plain file called misses. One line per question she got wrong: the section, what she picked, and the reason in six words. It goes back into the Project at the end of each week, and it is the only input the next session needs.
Here is my miss log for the past two weeks: [paste the miss log]. Group the misses into themes rather than reading them back to me. For the three biggest themes, tell me which outline section each sits in, what the underlying gap probably is, and then set tonight's ninety minutes to close the largest one. Ask me one diagnostic question first, before you decide what the gap is.
I am going to explain [name the topic] to you as if you were a new graduate on my unit. Here is my explanation: [paste your explanation]. Compare it against the reference documents in this Project only. Tell me what I got right, what I stated more strongly than the sources do, and what I left out, with the page for each correction. Do not add anything the sources do not cover.
What this is not doing
It is not predicting the exam, it is not a replacement for the board's own reference list, and an explanation with no page is a guess in a lab coat. When Claude cannot point at anything, that is a flag to go and read the source section, which is the study you needed in the first place.