I've never studied this much in my life. I knew from reading this forum and Reddit, that someone like myself, will need to study everyday. Score as high as you can on your Academic tests (Double check everything and go slow on the checklist eval....Go slow ?). Those tests can literally be the final factor in wether or not you pass the program.
For nonradar, make sure you know you're phraseology/map before getting to the academy. They are not exaggerating, seriously *know it*. You're going to be surprised how much of a breeze the classroom time is going to be during the non radar portion because of this. Learning to write on physical flight strips after spending months writing on an iPad is gonna feel fucking weird, but you'll adapt quickly. In hindsight, I strongly encourage folks to know the aircraft characteristics chart before coming to the academy. I waited a week out before the test to study and I felt that was cutting it too close. Remember, we were given a huge headstart with zoom training (Know: nonradar map, nonradar phraseology, aircraft characteristics chart)
For radar, our instructors kept hinting at the craziness ahead us, joking/laughing about it while we were in nonradar....As long as you *know* the nonradar map, you don't have to study the radar map. There was literally two navaids on the map, that I needed for something and I learned them on the go during a scenario. The most alarming thing that kept killing me was the radar phraseology. Those first two weeks, I'm still confident my instructors thought I was a dumbass lmao. I admittedly still require more practice, but I got a lot better by the time radar evals came. You will make some wild mistakes in radar and be baffled on why the hell you did that
The hardest struggle during training scenarios (nonradar and radar) for me was to realize it's okay to make mistakes and to stop getting so down on myself. The best reminder I got from my instructor before each run/eval was, "Go in there and do what you know how to do"