so i decided i want to get my technician license and ive been looking around online and theres like a million different study options and i honestly dont know which ones are actually worth using. i downloaded something called the hamstudy app i think and also someone at work told me to just memorize the question pool but that seems like a lot. the pool has like 400+ questions? or is it less than that i cant remember. anyway im not sure if i should be trying to understand the theory behind everything or just like brute force memorize answers. some of the electrical stuff is going over my head a little, the ohms law questions and stuff like that. been at it for about two weeks on and off. is there a smarter way to do this or did most of you guys just grind through the whole pool

hamstudy.org is honestly the best thing out there for this, the app and the website both track which questions you keep getting wrong and kind of focuses on those. just use that and youll be fine. the pool is 426 questions but the actual test is only 35 so you dont need to be perfect on everything. for the math stuff like ohms law just learn the actual formula, its way easier to understand it than try to memorize like 6 different variations of the same question. V=IR and you can rearrange it however you need. took me maybe 3 weeks of casual studying before i felt ready and passed with a 32 out of 35 first try.

yeah what he said about hamstudy. i'd also say dont stress too much about deeply understanding every single concept for the tech exam specifically, some of that stuff like the band plan questions or the phonetic alphabet ones you really do just kinda memorize. the theory helps later when you go for general but for tech the test is pretty forgiving. also check if there's a local club near you doing a license class, i did one at my club and having someone explain the antenna and propagation stuff in person made it click way faster than reading it. the ARRL tech manual is fine but felt a little dry to me personally, hamstudy got me most of the way there.