What is your studying like ?
Watch the videos and do the very limited questions on ExamCompass ?
I am doing Net+ after just passing the 2nd A+ exam. I failed the first exam and my studying was i read the book by mike Meyers and watched Messers videos repeatedly, should of been enough right ?
Messers sec 501 is 13 hours, 45 minutes, 33 seconds long if you watch them all at normal speed, thats 13 hours, 45 minutes, 33 seconds of information and things to remember coming at you. Break it down and take it slow, you watch the videos and you are like oh i know this, but what you are thinking is oh this is familiar, but you dont actually remember it at all, you know you have studied this before. After i failed A+ the first time i started researching how to learn, because why not haha and i thought i had done enough.
So im using forced recall and spaced repetition to study, which have been shown to be one of if not the best ways to learn and remember things.
So my advice, is create your own flashcards, i use Anki as it syncs up on my phone, pc and tablet, and is free (on android and web). I bought a question book and copied all the questions into Anki (2 days well spend in my opinion) and i also created sub folders for all the topics based off the objectives to make my own notes and ask myself questions from the book. I am waiting for the passport book to arrive, so untill then i am watching Messers videos and making notes from what he talks about, after 2 days im only watched 13 of his videos and made myself questions from there.
Then once i have wrote out all my notes i study them and study them and then study the practice questions and back and forth and so on. For A+ i post in this sub asking for things to study up on that may come up on PBQ's and make sure then i start adding them in the mix, as i have answered all questions a good few times it all clicks and starts to fall into place.
Hope this helps
This works for me and it may not work for you, and i am not endorsed by them
ANKI , you can use any flash card app i like anki as it syncs between my PC and my android phone.
I have read the Network plus passport book and made notes in the form of questions that i can ask myself via flashcards, the easier things it asks you less and less and the harder things it will ask you every day until it sticks. I also typed up some exam questions i found online and from a book i have (took ages, but i argue worth it) all in their corresponding sub chapters.
So i studied the Anki flashcards until i felt confident on all the topics and then i purchased Jason Dions practice exams on Udemy. I likes this as it gave me a different wording and angle to learn from. Any questions i got wrong i typed out into Anki as a form of studying along with re-reading the book on that topic, and with watching professor messers videos a few times i passed last December.
i found a good video here that will explain the science and reasoning behind this way of studying.