Taking Series 65 on Saturday (Jan 31, 2:30 PM CT) — Are my scores and strategy enough?

I am a recent college graduate with a finance degree. I’m 21 years old taking the Series 65 for the first time. It’s been a long road of on-and-off motivation, but I finally set a hard date: January 31 at 2:30 PM Central. I’m not currently working for a firm, but I plan to use this license as strong leverage to get a financial advisor role. Failing isn’t really an option in my head because waiting another 30 days would hang over me mentally.

I’m using Kaplan. I read the License Exam Manual cover to cover. I’ve done a large amount of QBank questions and now I’m focused on the simulated exams.

So far:

• First 2 simulated exams average: 71
• Next 2 simulated exams average: 78.5
• Combined overall average across 4 exams: ~76
• Taking another one right after posting this

I’m reviewing by section and focusing on my weak areas, which seem to be:

• Retirement plans
• Securities regulations
• Administrative provisions / remedies
• Basically, all the heavy regulation content

I’m also doing more QBank in those areas, but I’m surprising myself with how many I’m missing there.

Timing is not an issue for me.

I finish the first 70 questions in about 35 minutes, take a 5-minute break, and finish the full 140 in about 1 hour 20 minutes.

My main concerns:

1. Do these scores suggest I’m adequately prepared?
2. Is “spamming” simulated exams the right strategy this close to the test?
3. Are the real exam questions similar in style to Kaplan QBank/simulated exams?
4. I’m starting to instantly recognize some QBank questions from repetition — is that hurting me?

Please let me know if you have any other questions. Thank you very much for any and all feedback.