For those of you confused: I will try to explain the motive behind both flagging a question and keeping a wrong answer journal, though I think it should just be called an answer journal #feedback. (My comment below reveals I didn't even know how to do this even though I was aware J.Y. said to flag them). I am also aware J.Y. might just explain this in the next lessons again. I really don't know where I saw him talk about this before. Maybe it was at the beginning of the Logical Reasoning section.
I went back after writing this, and yeah, it's in the logical reasoning section, but I swear there was a video for this concept before: https://7sage.com/lesson/the-importance-of-blind-review/
FLAGGING: Flagging a question simply means you weren't one-hundred percent (or, in my mind: like >95%) confident in your answer. Flagging allows you to quickly come back later on and review something you feel like you had a chance at getting wrong.
During the Blind Review (BR) process, you might find that you flag a large amount of questions. however, this is natural. This will reduce over time for two reasons I personally believe. You flagged a lot because you are either not inherently confident in yourself, or you are at the beginning of your studying journey (or both). As you study and go through more Practice tests (PTs), you will find that you feel you are and are getting more and more answers correct. This will naturally lower the number of questions you need to review later on. If you are one of those people like me, who are not inherently confident in yourself, who flag everything, you will find more and more often that your anxious worries were for nothing, and that will boost your baseline confidence, and those number of flagged questions will reduce. In either case, you will most likely be spending less and less time in the future flagging questions and doing blind reviews. You will simply be trying to hone your skills rather than learning the base process of how to do the questions in these PTs or drills.
ANSWER JOURNAL: Sometimes you flag something you got right. You still review it and solidify your reasoning. If you go through more methodically and find out you were wrong (or feel like you were wrong), you will write out why you now think the wrong answers are wrong and why the correct answer was wrong. Maybe you also write down why you changed your answer during BR, and maybe you also write down why you came to the conclusion you did during the drill or PT. You will then, after BR, come back and find out if your reasoning was correct or not. Writing this stuff down makes you hold yourself accountable for how you solved the question. If you come back after the BR and find out you were using flawed reasoning during any portion of your PT or BR, you shatter that notion in your mind and analyze why you were wrong. If you find out you were right to make a certain assumption or choice, you try and solidify that line of reasoning.
I don't understand how blind review is supposed to take the same time as the test if we need to do all the steps of the blind review and do the wrong answers journal, in that sense should it not take more like time and a half?
#help After taking a prep test, will we receive two scores, one for what we would have received had we not blind-reviewed, and another for our post-blind review outcome?
I still don't understand how we can keep a wrong answer journal during blind review if we have no idea what the correct answer is and if we got it right to begin with. I know it isn't the best practice to immediately look at the answers, but how are you even supposed to know what you got wrong and that you need to review it unless we look at the answers? It makes more sense to flag the question, do blind review, look at the answers and break down what you do/don't understand and then mark that question in the journal for the initial wrong answer and your explanation for the correct one. I've noticed others have similar questions and would like a clearer answer on how to properly conduct blind review in the way it is set up currently. #feedback #help
So we only blind review what we flagged, and not other questions?
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Finished 2 prep tests and when opening them and going over the answers the bottom part for the wrong answer journal is missing.
How do we access this feature after finishing a prep test?
What about when you get a question wrong that you didn't flag?
Is blind review taking place immediately after we finish the timed PT? Can it be done after a break?
Someone tell me why I've been blind reviewing all my questions and not just the ones I bookmarked😭
#feedback when we are doing an untimed drill, should we blind review?
#feedback Also, does that mean we aren't supposed to be blind reviewing every single question?
#feedback: How do you flag a question?
Is it helpful to Blind Review the whole test?
Do you attempt to solve unanswered questions during blind review after completing a timed practice test?
For those of you confused: I will try to explain the motive behind both flagging a question and keeping a wrong answer journal, though I think it should just be called an answer journal #feedback. (My comment below reveals I didn't even know how to do this even though I was aware J.Y. said to flag them). I am also aware J.Y. might just explain this in the next lessons again. I really don't know where I saw him talk about this before. Maybe it was at the beginning of the Logical Reasoning section.
I went back after writing this, and yeah, it's in the logical reasoning section, but I swear there was a video for this concept before: https://7sage.com/lesson/the-importance-of-blind-review/
FLAGGING: Flagging a question simply means you weren't one-hundred percent (or, in my mind: like >95%) confident in your answer. Flagging allows you to quickly come back later on and review something you feel like you had a chance at getting wrong.
During the Blind Review (BR) process, you might find that you flag a large amount of questions. however, this is natural. This will reduce over time for two reasons I personally believe. You flagged a lot because you are either not inherently confident in yourself, or you are at the beginning of your studying journey (or both). As you study and go through more Practice tests (PTs), you will find that you feel you are and are getting more and more answers correct. This will naturally lower the number of questions you need to review later on. If you are one of those people like me, who are not inherently confident in yourself, who flag everything, you will find more and more often that your anxious worries were for nothing, and that will boost your baseline confidence, and those number of flagged questions will reduce. In either case, you will most likely be spending less and less time in the future flagging questions and doing blind reviews. You will simply be trying to hone your skills rather than learning the base process of how to do the questions in these PTs or drills.
ANSWER JOURNAL: Sometimes you flag something you got right. You still review it and solidify your reasoning. If you go through more methodically and find out you were wrong (or feel like you were wrong), you will write out why you now think the wrong answers are wrong and why the correct answer was wrong. Maybe you also write down why you changed your answer during BR, and maybe you also write down why you came to the conclusion you did during the drill or PT. You will then, after BR, come back and find out if your reasoning was correct or not. Writing this stuff down makes you hold yourself accountable for how you solved the question. If you come back after the BR and find out you were using flawed reasoning during any portion of your PT or BR, you shatter that notion in your mind and analyze why you were wrong. If you find out you were right to make a certain assumption or choice, you try and solidify that line of reasoning.
I didn't even know we could flag questions. Damn.
I don't understand how blind review is supposed to take the same time as the test if we need to do all the steps of the blind review and do the wrong answers journal, in that sense should it not take more like time and a half?
Waite, so we blind-review only the questions we Flagged?
#help After taking a prep test, will we receive two scores, one for what we would have received had we not blind-reviewed, and another for our post-blind review outcome?
I still don't understand how we can keep a wrong answer journal during blind review if we have no idea what the correct answer is and if we got it right to begin with. I know it isn't the best practice to immediately look at the answers, but how are you even supposed to know what you got wrong and that you need to review it unless we look at the answers? It makes more sense to flag the question, do blind review, look at the answers and break down what you do/don't understand and then mark that question in the journal for the initial wrong answer and your explanation for the correct one. I've noticed others have similar questions and would like a clearer answer on how to properly conduct blind review in the way it is set up currently. #feedback #help
How do you keep a wrong answer journal during the blind review if you don't know what the answers are yet?
So we only blind review what we flagged, and not other questions?