The volume is the universal shock, it's not that the material is impossibly hard, it's that there's SO MUCH of it coming SO FAST that old study habits collapse. What saved me was switching from passive studying which is re-reading, highlighting, which feels productive but isn't. to active recall and spaced repetition, which let me actually retain things long-term instead of forgetting last month's material. The other half was accepting I couldn't learn everything to 100%, so I learned to triage high-yield first. Consistency beat intensity every single time, steady daily work crushed heroic all-nighters. You will not master it all, and that's normal, not failure.
