After failing CISSP once on time management (not knowledge), I rebuilt how I practice. Three things that actually moved the needle:

1. Timed sets over untimed review. 25 questions, 30 minutes, no pausing. Untimed practice taught me the content but not the pacing, and pacing is what fails people.
2. Log the reason for every miss, not the right answer. Mine bucketed into “misread the qualifier”, “two plausible answers”, and “genuinely didn’t know” — only the third needs more studying.
3. Rotate domains daily instead of finishing one domain before starting the next. Interleaving is uncomfortable but retention is much better a month out.

The free question banks I use for the timed sets are here: https://www.examcert.app/

Direct domain drills I keep going back to: https://www.examcert.app/exams/cissp/ https://www.examcert.app/exams/ccsp/ https://www.examcert.app/exams/cisa/

There is also an AI explainer that walks through why a distractor is wrong, which helped more than the answer key: https://ai.examcert.app

Curious what other people here do for the last two weeks before an exam — full mocks daily, or spaced short sets?