Seth Masia wrote:

Buy the books and study at home. Use Kershner or Machado, which are
reasonably entertaining and very thorough. You'll need FAR/AIM and the Gleim
book is useful for last-minute test prep. Think about getting the written
out of the way early.

Some people can visualize things from reading and study well enough to do this;
others can't. If you find that you're having trouble understanding the material,
it may be best to wait to take the written exam. When you actually do something
in the plane that you've read about, it makes it clearer. This was particularly
true for me with instruments.

Back when I took the test, the FAA asked that you review the questions that you
missed. This was only possible if you had the Gleim book for the version of the
exam you took. Dunno if that's still true.

George Patterson
Give a person a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a person to
use the Internet and he won't bother you for weeks.