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*dp1234 writes:*
Seeking suggestion regarding strategy to review
error log, to get maximum result in least time:
1. After attempting a set of questions, immediately review the incorrect ones. And then after one week or later attempt the accumulated incorrect questions. OR
2. Review the
error log at the end of day and re-attempt the incorrect ones.
I usually go for (1) above. If any one has other suggestions or feedback please share your thoughts.
Hey
dp1234,
First of all, there are different approaches that tend to work for different people so I suggest getting different feedback and trying it out to see what works best for your mindset, and what leverage is your strengths. For example, I get bored very easily so doing long sets of questions is almost a nonstarter for me so I would do 10 question quizzes to test myself on the topic. That’s probably two Spartan because it’s hard to for example hit every idea concept and type for words problems for example but it does work for fractions and roots and smaller topics like that.
My approach was quality versus quantity. When they say quality, I don’t mean quality of questions but I mean quality of focus and mistake eradication. My rule was that if I make a mistake, I must not make it again. So making one mistake was enough of a pattern for me to start investigating and pursuing the root cause, I did not need to make 10 mistakes to spot a pattern.
So again, may or may not work for your personality and study style, but any time I would make a mistake, I would print out the question and I would write out in a couple words the reason I made a mistake and what mitigation steps I have put in place that will preclude me from making this mistake again.
I would then have a stack of 10 or 20 papers for the week and I would review them every day. Now I would not solve them or attempt them because I knew the solutions and I knew the answer choices but instead my task was looking at the question, recognizing the mistake where I made the mistake and telling myself why I will not make this mistake again, so for example if you’re working on quant, and I made a calculation mistake, I would do a secondary check on an important step or I would remind myself that I made this calculation mistake so I would slow down. And generally, because I put a mitigation step in place which while perhaps slowing me down on the test would result in higher accuracy. I almost never made the same mistake again except a few careless mistakes which I allowed myself to keep making until the very end mostly because I did not know how to deal with them. (those were unique to my brain so it’s not worth going into those 😂)
And I would review that stack of mistakes daily, every afternoon or every time I ate lunch.
I would then drop most of them except the most annoying or concerning ones and those would go to the next week the rest would go into archive. I would sometimes pull out some of them from archive for a review later but again I would not solve the questions realistically because I remembered how to solve them so I would maybe walk through solution steps and how to make those steps correctly but I feel like the purpose of mistakes for me was more about showing the treacherous spot rather than re-attempting a question I already know how to solve.
And I appreciated every mistake because every mistake I could uncover it during my preparation and prepared for meant it would be one less mistake I would make on my Real Exam.