I think everyone basically has their own way to do it. I am a similar age to you so I have also been out of full time education for a good decade (after uni).
I am doing 1 hour when I wake up, 1 hour at lunch and 1-2 hours in the evening. It is a LOT to take in and get to grips with so when you make you schedule you have to work hard at sticking to it.
You just need to find what works best for you really.
Thanks Keeflyer,
I don't work and live in the south of france, so for me I will be going at this full time. the plan since the post is the following
Morning 9-12 Study
Lunch 12-1
Afternoon 1-4 Study
Once i finish at 4, i plan to move away from the books and relax as much as possible, then later in the evening at about 7pm time is go through and read note from the day.
I plan this for Mon - Fri with weekends being for me and the wife apart from the evenings where i can do some question bank work.
this WILL and most prob100 change as could be far to much
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