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Can a working professional in a demanding full time job clear the CSE exams considering they were working during the entire course of the examination?

So to give you the context, I graduated from law school in 2019 and have been working as an in-house counsel for an e-commerce company since then. Due to my financial obligations and being the sole earning member of the family leaving the job is not an option for me to prepare for this prestigious examination. 

The peculiarity of my situation is not only with respect to the availability of the time but also any guidance & company preparing alongside. Secondly the time constraint makes it difficult to imagine that I would ever be able to finish the entire syllabus atleast not in a year and that takes me to the third issue of testing myself. Since the mains answer writing requires extensive answer checking and feedback and all the available test series for mains are curated for aspirants that could devote the kind of time that is an impossibility for me. To give an example if the tests are scheduled every 2 weeks, it is most probably not possible for me to finish the syllabus every 2 weeks for the next test or get full time to sit for the test in one go. And as per the multiple advises that I have seen in interviews, answer writing should start at the very beginning.

Because of the uniqueness of the issues that a working professional faces considering I will be working during the entire course of my preparation in the journey on the long road of this examination I would be grateful if you would grace me with any suggestions and tips that could help me.

Thanking you,

Looking for Advice

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