I studied 2 hours the day before the comp early in the day, then took some time off to relax, went to bed early. got up at 0430, got breakfast and chow, then just browsed my notes fromc 0515 to 0700 in a relaxed manner and made my "7 items list". I've read alot of material that says take some time off and get good rest before a major exam and you should do better. it sounds like you are a good student, so one more piece of advice would be to go over your notes and look for areas where you could "pull a brainfart", basically what I call a "brain transpostition error". A very silly example of this since power school was so long ago for me I can't remember a good example, but confusing fast fission with thermal fission would be an example, albeit not a good one. go through your notes, you will find some stuff similar to what I am talking about. anything else i can help you with i will be up all night here at Oconee Nuclear Power plant, good luck! jim