When it comes time to prepare for the exams there is one primary source of information that far exceeds all others: the past papers. Certainly, you need to have a foundation in the material before you take them on but my experience is that none of the other available resources are reliably aligned to what will appear on the exams.
One to two weeks before the exams I begin to work through each of the past papers. The official recommendation is to do this under exam conditions. I didn't heed this recommendation. Perhaps I would have scored better if I had. However, in my case I do not believe it would have helped me significantly.
There are two benefits of a live rehearsal. It forces rigorous time management and it provides practice actively articulating key concepts. I never experienced a problem with time management during an exam and felt comfortable articulating the concepts without a rehearsal. Others may not have the same experience and may very well find a rehearsal to be of critical importance.
In the last couple days before the exam, I also compiled a cheat-sheet. The idea wasn't to cheat (I swear I never brought it into the venue or cheated in any other way). Instead my objective was to actively and visually represent everything I needed to memorise for the exam.
In many cases these were lists and sequences that tended to crop up frequently in the exams. I found that by compiling them into a sheet and scanning over them a few times before the exam I was able to retain them at least until the exam started and I could jot them down on the exam materials.
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