The welcome flow asks for two things and then gets out of the way: your exam date, and a placement check.

If you have booked, put in the real date. If you have not, put in a target — you can change it whenever you like, and the whole plan rebuilds around the new one.

This is the single most useful thing you can tell us. With a date, your Game Plan works backwards from it and adds a taper at the end so your recall peaks on the day. Without one you still get a plan; it just paces you instead of counting down.

A twenty-five-question check across every area of the exam, untimed, with no grades in between. See "The placement check" for what it is doing and why it is worth the twenty minutes.

You can skip it. If you do, your readiness meter simply stays locked until you have answered enough questions in ordinary practice.

You land on your dashboard with a plan and, if you did the placement, a first read on where you stand.

The best next hour is the study guide. It is the whole textbook, it is free on the trial, and everything else in the product exists to make what you read there stick. Read a chapter, highlight as you go, and let the flashcards and questions build on it.

The trial takes no card and does not expire. Your date, your pace and your exam can all change later without losing anything.