Free resources got me further than the paid subscription ever did, here's what I actually used

Paid for a well-known prep platform for three months and barely opened it past week two. What actually stuck: a public pattern-based problem list, a subreddit that posts a weekly discussion thread per topic, and just re-solving problems I'd already done a week later without looking at my old solution. Zero dollars, way more consistent than the subscription I kept meaning to cancel. Not saying paid tools are useless, just that the free stuff did more for me because I actually used it.