so i decided i finally want to get my technician license after lurking around this hobby for like two years watching youtube videos and stuff. i bought one of those gordon west study books at a hamfest a few months ago but honestly i opened it once and it kind of overwhelmed me and i put it down. my neighbor who is licensed told me just to memorize the question pool but that feels like cheating somehow? i dont know. im mostly confused about the electrical theory parts like ohm's law and stuff, i was never great at math. the rest of it seems okay i think. is there a good order to go through the material or do people just kind of do random practice tests until they feel ready. also how long did it take most people to actually feel ready to sit for the exam

dont overthink it honestly. the question pool is public and the actual exam questions come directly from it word for word, so yeah youre basically memorizing answers and theres nothing wrong with that, thats how everyone does it. hamstudy.org is really the best free tool out there, just do practice tests every day for a couple weeks and you'll start seeing the same questions over and over. the electrical theory stuff like ohm's law you really only need to know enough to answer maybe 4 or 5 specific questions, its not like they make you derive anything from scratch. i studied maybe 3 weeks casually and passed with only a couple wrong. the gordon west book is fine but i found just hammering the practice tests more efficient personally

yeah hamstudy is what everyone recommends and for good reason but i'll add one thing -- when you get a question wrong dont just move on, actually read why the right answer is right. took me a little longer than some people but i felt way more confident on exam day because i actually understood most of it instead of just guessing. the electrical theory isnt as scary as it looks, for ohms law theres literally like a triangle trick where you cover the thing you're solving for and it tells you the formula. someone showed me that and it clicked immediately. anyway good luck, the exam itself is not hard if you put even a few hours into it, you got this