Self-study
I have been making a wrong answer journal for the questions I get wrong as I do drills and PTs. It involves me looking deeply at the explanations, marking why I put the wrong answer down, and any notes (I just used a template I found). My question is, should I be reviewing these wrong answers weeks after after my review process of putting them in my wrong answer journal? And how often should one be doing this?
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There are multiple different approaches, but I would not recommend spending a lot of time rereading your wrong answer journal.
Instead, I would use it for two main things:
Use your wrong answer journal to guide you in what to focus on when drilling. If you can see your mistakes are disproportionately coming from certain question types or a certain mistake that you are making, you can practice with the aim of avoiding making that mistake or review the core curriculum for that question type.
Retake fresh copies of the questions that you include in your wrong answer journal about a month after originally taking them. You want to retake them when the memory of originally taking them has partially faded, but is still there to help you a little. If you successfully solve the question and know why the right answer is right and each wrong answer is wrong, that's great. If you get caught up on it, go back to the wrong answer journal and it should immediately clear things back up if you are being thorough enough with your wrong answer journal. If not, then you should add to the entry when you do get the question to click and make sense.