When you say memorise when it came to practice questions, is that the weekly practice questions or when all the workshops finished and you started doing regular practice questions? Thanks for your clarification!
What I did when I was on the course was I definitely did attempt the weekly practice tests at the end of each week. Bear in mind when I say memorise I don't mean memorise the
question and answer itself, what I mean is attempt the questions closed book under timed conditions, analyse what you got wrong and go through all the questions (including the ones you got right) and make sure you understand the key concepts behind the question. You can't just memorise the ULaw question patterns and expect to pass. Yes, they are similar to the SRA questions to some degree, but ultimately I've found that to pass you really need to know and apply the concepts behind it, not just be able to answer the same ULaw questions again and again. Just doing loads and loads of practice questions doesn't necessarily mean you're getting the most out of them either - what I found most valuable with practice questions was the process of getting to exercise my memory and see if I can recall from memory the legal concept, apply it to a fact pattern, analyse my feedback and reflect on what I actually understood / memorised vs what I haven't.
If you read my previous posts you will find that what I regret not doing more is more practice questions on top of the weekly practice tests. I wish I had regularly gone through more practice questions on a daily / weekly basis rather than having a massive backlog of questions to go through two months before my exam. Doing the weekly practice tests is was a must for me personally I'd say - you really need to push yourself out of the comfort zone and just attempt those questions even if you are rubbish at them. Don't worry about 'wasting' these questions - when I re-attempted some of these weekly practice questions one month before my exam I had already completely forgotten them all. So definitely don't feel like you need to save up all your questions till all the workshops have finished and you're in full revision mode. You can start exercising your application muscle much earlier in the course. Alternatively you might find that practice questions don't help you at all and if that's the case you can do fewer, but just make sure you practise enough overall before you actually sit the exam, whether that's spread out across 5 months or concentrated in the final 2 months. Which approach you want to take is up to personal preference. I know people who got through the ULaw question bank slowly and steadily and scored Q1, and I also know people (including myself) who spammed the question bank only towards the end and also scored Q1. But the only reason I say I regret not doing the questions earlier is because in retrospect I feel I could have reinforced my memory on certain topics a lot better if I had exercised my application muscle earlier instead of having to build that skill up only really in the last two months.
I think we learn more unconsciously than we like to give ourselves credit for. There were some topics where I had to sit down and MEMORISE by writing stuff down on a piece of paper just to test if I could recall it from scratch, but a lot of the content I didn't really learn this way as well. A lot of it I found that the more practice questions you do and the more times you go over your notes / flashcards, you will somehow naturally store that piece of information at the back of your mind, and the next time you encounter a question testing you on that legal concept, you will find that it will come much more naturally to you and you should increasingly be able to answer them with ease.
However I did also rely quite heavily on just hard memorising certain parts of the FLK using my flashcards. I think you will need to do a bit of trial and error to see what works for you. You could perhaps try reviewing your notes / flashcards on just the dry FLK (i.e. shut your book and try to blurt out whatever you can remember / carve out time review your flashcard decks everyday), then you can test whether you've actually got it seared into your memory by attempting practice questions. When you attempt a practice question and you cannot recall what is the legal concept behind what would be the answer, just make your best guess and move on. If you get it right, try to figure out how you made the right guess. If you get it wrong, figure out what is the gap in your memory - tag the flashcard and review it again tomorrow, in 2 days' time, in 7 days' time etc to see if by that time you've got that seared in your brain. By doing flashcards you are doing active recall + spaced repetition. Then attempting practice questions means you are doing active recall a second time round - which should reinforce your memory on that piece of fact even more. And once you find your groove you just rinse and repeat. But like I said on my previous posts, you need to pay some attention to the parts of the FLK that aren't as heavily tested in the ULaw question bank as well - so you also need to make time to review flashcards / notes for the other details which you haven't seen come up in a ULaw question.
