I have noticed that when I try and switch question types a bunch..i.e. take a practice test, that I do much worse than if i can do 2 or three of the same type then move to the next question type, like in the lesson. Has anyone tried to mark the question types first? I know it would be a time sink though..
PS I timed myself marking the question type and it took me 2:30.
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I know some people don't do the marking. But for some reason, I find marking a question type helps me to focus on the task I need to do in a stimulus and to avoid silly mistake.
So its up to you. Not everyone does it. : )
But if you mark the entire section up and then start to do questions, don't you still have to first see what question type it is? So in addition to 2:30 sec you use about :25 seconds as well (this is assuming that it takes you one second to you see your markup and then start reading the stimulus). That brings a total time to 3 minutes. Why not just do it question by question as you go, this way you are not doing anything twice and using less time.
@esteerose I do think it is a bit of a time sink, so I'm not sure if it is a useful habit past when you learning the question types.