I am slotted for pathfinder school in a week. Any advice?

Study, don't take the knowledge test for granted. Knowledge is a zero tolerance deal with only a few Military Schools , Jump Master, repel master, Pathfinder are a few of them...... Did I mention Study, don't take the knowledge test for granted.

I'd prepare for Pathfinder in much the same manner I prepared for any of the unclassified courses in which I participated. Study the course(know what you are getting into), study the content(this is a head course and the information is available from multiple sources), discuss the course with graduates(you're ahead on that one) and, last but not least, remember the guiding principle of all Army courses, special skills or not - the purpose of the course is not to produce failure; the course(s)' object is to produce qualified Soldiers. And finally remember that literally thousands of Soldiers have successfully completed the course, if they could do it so can you.

Which one are you going to? Is it a MTT or the one at Benning? But you really have to take it one subject at a time. You should be studying​ nomenclature. They should have the packet on their website or in the welcome packet. It is a very tough course. Ever subject is very intense. It will only overwhelm you. So don't study everything. Just be familiar with the subjects.

Pathfinder School wasn't bad if you studied, I would honestly study till about mid-night, 1AM every night. Day 1 wasn't hard at all, just a repeat of 10days of AA School. You'll be fine if study and ask questions. Good luck!

As everyone else has said, study study study! Do all study halls and study after that until midnight or 1am depending on how confident you are in the current day's material. There is and exam on day 2 and every single day thereafter through day 10. Like any Army course you can fail any test one time and do a retake but the retake will be at like 0600 to be followed by (if you pass) the regular exam for the day at 0800 (that you probably didn't have time to study for because you were studying for the retest). That what got most people (well that and slingloads). Slingloads was harder than air assault because instead of saying "gig" you had to use proper nomenclature i.e. 5K clevis instead of 10K clevis.

SFC(P) (Join to see), you've already received good guidance from CPT Jim Schwebach, CPT (Join to see) and SGM Erik Marquez. Also, I never attended the Pathfinder course, so I'll simply wish you bonne chance.

To all that may be reading this for an upcoming Pathfinder School date, I was an Instructor from 98-2000. I don't know if they still do it or not, but I would give my home phone number (no one had cell phones!) to my students and they were free to call me until 2100hrs (I had young children so I had to set limits!) and ask any questions or clarify any material they had questions about. This helped a lot of students pass homework assignments that in turn would help them pass the tests. Like I said, I am not sure if they do this today, but if they do, take advantage of it.

As a former Pathfinder Instructor, my advise is study and ask any question that you may have. If you don't understand something, chances are someone else is in the same boat. Don't wait until the last minute to clarify anything you are having problems with. Oh yeah, and this may be a simple thing to do, but I saw several students kicked out because of it, show up on time!

Just study hard take as many practice tests as you can make sure you remember how to shoot a good azimuth and are able to memorize simple algebraic equations and conversions

Have fun! And study off course! Focus on what the instructors teach, you will be surprised on how many bad manners you have -if you have done any sling loads in the past- and how it could bit you in your 4th point of contact.