Self-study
i've been working on my weakest section, rc. every time i do a passage and get something like a -7, i am frustrated. it's because i'll go through my incorrect answers and either realize my mistake was dumb or i'll figure out why i was wrong and why the correct answer was right. then i'll pledge to not make that mistake again. i'll go into the next section with confidence and get a similar score. but then, i'll feel like oi really learned from my mistakes again! how do i just answer more questions correctly the first time around?
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Are you identifying what's wrong with the answer you picked prior to looking at 7Sage's explanation in the review process?
@BenjaminSegal yes, as in when i get it right during blind review. sometimes no though, because i'll get it wrong during br and then understand
@ktacklesthelsat ok this may sound odd, but there's a sort of intermediate review you can do. Let's say you get it wrong on BR. Don't look at 7sage's explanation immediately. Given that you know the answer you picked is wrong, try to sniff out why that is. Perhaps you overlooked a small word, but more than likely you failed to see the relevance of a phrase or word, you failed to see the implications of the answer, or unpack its logic correctly. If you can come to a conclusion about where you went wrong, then you can reveal 7Sage's explanation. See if your thinking tracked. If it didn't you're probably missing some tools in the tool kit. Just looking at someone else's explanation and things clicking into place isn't the same as actually struggling through the proper analysis. You're creative. Put your thinking hat on and go in odd directions. It's like the difference between being handed the solution book that comes with the Rubik's cube, and solving a Rubik's cube through trial, error, and accumulating strategy.
during the actual timed section/test, are you glancing back at the passage to check if what you selected has support? that could help on the first pass, as I suspect you're doing that during blind review
@Marcus91 i'm doing my best to do that. i just took a section where my main goal was to do that and got -4, but there were still questions where after i learned what the answer was i was like how could i have possibly gotten this wrong? it wont happen next time