Excellent! Best of luck to you. Stay focused, keep studying this week and kill that test.
Please take the following as friendly, unsolicited advice from someone who has been there, has felt the transition clock ticking LOUDLY, and who wants you to finish up ARE 4.0 so that you do not need to transition:
Once you get SS behind you next week make studying for BS your second job. Be relentless. I would definitely recommend the Amber book as one of your BS preparation resources (Full disclosure: I used the Amber book and I viewed all of Ermann’s free videos on YouTube but I did not take the whole video course. If I had to do it again I WOULD take the whole Amber video course as it would likely have shortened my learning curve considerably). I would NOT rely only on Amber, however. That is too risky, in my opinion. Sure, many people pass BS having used only the Amber course but I would not endorse that strategy. You want to pass BS the first time through so that you don’t have the added pressure of the transition clock ticking in your mind on a retake. This is totally doable. Here is what I did: I read through all the relevant Ballast chapters first and watched all of the free Ermann and Black Spectacles videos available. I dug deep into MEEB for any topic that I needed greater clarification on (that was most topics!) and I found it to be an invaluable resource. Yes, it can be too detailed but that is fine. Better to have too much information than too little. You will judge what level of detail or comprehension to study to. As always, get the concepts first and any formulas/calculations second. I used the Amber book and Ballast for practice questions/exams to gauge my comprehension. I dug deep restudying any areas where I missed questions or for areas which were not yet fully clear in my mind. Last, I practiced the vignette and alternates and posted my vignettes here for feedback. I don’t know that I would have passed BS had I not utilized all of the above resources. Your milage may vary.
Best of luck. You can definitely do this. It will feel awesome when you get your final big, blue PASS notification!
Oh! One more thing. You may find this link helpful. Lots of good info here:
http://arehelp.webs.com/bs