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Flashcards for practice problems. Good technique or bad? 26 May 2018, 08:25
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I've been making flashcards of questions on practice tests and OG problems that I get wrong. I have about 120 total that I've been reviewing a portion of every day. However, I'm not sure this is healthy. I become lighting fast at solving these specific problems so if I recognize a very similar one I can solve it quickly. However, variations of the problems still get me. I fear I'm being too specific, training myself how to solve the exact problem instead of the overall type of the problem. Does anyone else do this, or variations of it? I don't only review these, I do new practice problems as well, but still go through these as part of my daily routine. Should I drop this?
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Flashcards for practice problems. Good technique or bad? 26 May 2018, 08:40
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I've been making flashcards of questions on practice tests and OG problems that I get wrong. I have about 120 total that I've been reviewing a portion of every day. However, I'm not sure this is healthy. I become lighting fast at solving these specific problems so if I recognize a very similar one I can solve it quickly. However, variations of the problems still get me. I fear I'm being too specific, training myself how to solve the exact problem instead of the overall type of the problem. Does anyone else do this, or variations of it? I don't only review these, I do new practice problems as well, but still go through these as part of my daily routine. Should I drop this?
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I don't think it is bad actually. There is some value (exactly what is diff for diff people) but the idea is that you are able to solve certain type of questions. All Quant under Q50 is based on patterns. If you can solve those patterns (even without thinking) you can get a Q49 without issues. Q50 and Q51 are a little trickier but they are a lot harder to get and figure out.

P.S. I would not review them daily but rather weekly instead. I did this by printing out the questions I got wrong and reviewing them every week and making sure I knew exactly how to solve each, esp such word problems as GroupA/B/Both/Neither.
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I've been making flashcards of questions on practice tests and OG problems that I get wrong. I have about 120 total that I've been reviewing a portion of every day. However, I'm not sure this is healthy. I become lighting fast at solving these specific problems so if I recognize a very similar one I can solve it quickly. However, variations of the problems still get me. I fear I'm being too specific, training myself how to solve the exact problem instead of the overall type of the problem. Does anyone else do this, or variations of it? I don't only review these, I do new practice problems as well, but still go through these as part of my daily routine. Should I drop this?


I don't think it is bad actually. There is some value (exactly what is diff for diff people) but the idea is that you are able to solve certain type of questions. All Quant under Q50 is based on patterns. If you can solve those patterns (even without thinking) you can get a Q49 without issues. Q50 and Q51 are a little trickier but they are a lot harder to get and figure out.

P.S. I would not review them daily but rather weekly instead. I did this by printing out the questions I got wrong and reviewing them every week and making sure I knew exactly how to solve each, esp such word problems as GroupA/B/Both/Neither.
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Thanks for the input. What I meant by daily is that I typically break them up into about 7 groups, and review part of them each day, so that I repeat the whole set of problems once per week, instead of all of them every day. I suppose I'll keep going at it
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