Self-study
I feel so frustrated at the blind review feature. When I was first starting, I didn't realize that blind review shows you questions regardless of whether they were right or wrong. I then adjusted it in my preferences. However, I didn't realize that when it says "Flagged" for "Questions that you left flagged at the end of your practice," that it would bring me to my flagged questions with the exact same format as if it was incorrect. I thought it would just keep my flags on the question. Now I just did another blind review session where I changed the answers for the questions I answered correctly the first time, because I assumed they were wrong. This is so frustrating and I wish it was clearer on the UX why it was being suggested for blind review. Now that practice section won't be included in my analytics.. :(
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I know it's frustrating now, but it's far more useful to have some chance of getting questions you got correct recommended for BR. If you know going into BR that everything recommended will be something you got wrong, your BR score will end up inflated, because there will be a lot of questions that you will get right in BR not because you really understand it, but only because you know that your first choice was wrong and so you'll just go with your other choice. Imo this kind of BR is actually close to pointless and maybe even counterproductive, although I know a lot of students prefer to just BR stuff they got wrong.
Ultimately I think it's best to reframe what BR is. It's about giving yourself an opportunity to think through the logic of your choice and gauge your confidence. There should be some questions recommended for BR where you think through each step of reasoning and stand behind your choice. And there should be others where you switch your answer not because "BR tells me this is wrong," but because you think you realize your original line of thinking was wrong and you see a better line of reasoning to support a different answer choice.
@Kevin_Lin Hello, so BR obly showing wrong questions to you? or this feature you need to setup first?
@Kevin_Lin I understand the pedagogical benefits to conducting blind review like that, but this was more of a vent about the fact that I wish there was a clearer way to differentiate why you get certain questions for blind review. It just isn’t natural to me yet to check the ? every time as a beginner to the layout and when I’m assuming that questions will only be suggested because they’re wrong. Thank you for your comment though, and I definitely will start incorporating correct questions to my BR—just good to know going into a BR that there is a chance a question might actually be correct 😭
@Lidiia These are the default settings (which you can change under your preferences):
It's possible to get recommended for BR something you got correct if it's flagged, took a long time, you guessed, or you changed your answer a lot on it.