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the exam grind is real and I am not okay - samuelhere - 07-07-2026
so I have been staring at compliance regulations for three weeks straight trying to prep for this thing and I genuinely hit a wall yesterday. looked up every possible shortcut including whether someone could just do my CRCM exam for me because my brain simply refused to absorb another word about the Community Reinvestment Act at 11pm on a Tuesday. the material is not hard in theory but the sheer volume of it is something nobody really warns you about beforehand
ended up calling a friend who passed it last year and she basically told me to stop trying to study everything and just focus on the high weight topics which honestly felt like someone turning a light on. still exhausted but at least I have a direction now. if you are in the middle of CRCM prep right now just know you are not alone in feeling completely overwhelmed by it, it is a lot and the struggle is very real