The schedule is 8-5ish Monday-Friday. When you are off (at night, or Saturday and Sunday) you are off, they don't care where you are. They don't, however, provide non-rev travel unless you have at least 5 days off. Those 5 day windows SOMETIMES happen during your CPT/SIM schedule. The first four weeks is ground school (all the written tests are a breeze) followed by the oral exam. The next four weeks (depends on the individual schedule you get with your sim partner) is all cpt/sim. You will have 6 sessions in the GFS (touch screen cockpit layout) followed by 8 sim rides. After that, LOFT, then OE. You will be bounced around duing OE until the date your base award takes place.
The ground school instructors are great guys, but a little frazzled by having to teach a new class every week. Everyone is really nice and trying their best to help you out by providing personalized attention when you need it.