Originally Posted by
EMBFlyer
If they tell you to know your flows, call-outs, limitations and memory items before you show up, know them. You don't have to know why you're touching a switch at this point, just know you have to touch it and when.
Just go in with that stuff memorized cold anyway, if you can get your hands on the materials.
Often I see the advice that they'll teach you what you need to know at the schoolhouse so you shouldn't try to study ahead, but I strongly disagree with it. You'll have plenty of your attention occupied by higher-level more abstract knowledge that requires some reasoning and has to be taught by an instructor with examples, discussion, etc. So, for raw facts that are simply memorized, you'll make your life that much easier by reducing what comes of the firehose because you already, uhm, drank up beforehand.
But there is a possibility of getting burned by studying stuff at an airline undergoing an episode of quick-changing SOP's. So if you're gonna use someone's pre-made Quizlet or whatever, make sure it's recent and have someone vouch for it that's already there.