so i've been wanting to get my tech license for a while now and i finally decided to just go for it. my neighbor is a ham and he's been bugging me about it forever lol. anyway i downloaded the question pool PDF from the ARRL website i think and its like... a lot. like way more than i expected. someone told me i should just memorize all 423 questions but that seems insane, do people actually do that or is there a better way to study the actual concepts behind it? i dont really have a background in electronics at all, i work in IT so i kind of understand networks and stuff but ohms law and all that is pretty fuzzy for me. is the hamstudy.org thing worth using or should i get an actual book

hamstudy.org is honestly how most people do it these days, just grind through the practice tests until youre consistently hitting 80% or better and youll be fine. the actual exam pulls straight from that question pool so there really are no surprises. that said if you have zero electronics background it might be worth at least skimming one of the study guides just to understand WHY some of the answers are what they are, otherwise youll pass the test and then be completely lost when someone asks you a real question on the air. the ARRL handbook is overkill for tech, but the gordon west study books are pretty approachable even if theyre a little dated

I passed mine about 6 months ago and used hamstudy exclusively, took me maybe 2 weeks of studying for like 20-30 min a night. The math questions freaked me out too but honestly theres only a handful of them and once you see the patterns its not bad. Ohms law stuff just comes up a few times and the numbers they use in the question pool are always the same so you kind of just recognize them after a while. dont overthink it, the tech exam really isnt that hard compared to general or extra