Assessing Your Progress
First, you need to figure out why you got each question wrong. If it was 700+, you got another
lower-ranked question of the same type right, and you were fine with these on your last test,
then your fundamentals may be good, and it may be time to lift yourself into the toughest areas
for this particular question type or content area.
Alternatively, maybe you did know the material but you made careless mistakes.
Finally, something in this category may indicate a fundamental weakness. Is the material some
thing you already studied or something you should know? Return to it. Have you not studied
it yet? Time to start. Is the material commonly or rarely tested? Prioritize the commonly tested
material first. As needed, return to the relevant sections of your Strategy Guides.
Group 3:
You got these wrong way too quickly (more than 30 seconds faster than expected).
Are these really weaknesses or were you just going too fast (and making more careless mis
takes)? Why were you going too fast on these?
If you chose to rush because you knew you didn’t know what to do (in other words, you made a
guess and moved on), that’s fine. Decide now whether you want to study this area further.
If you chose to rush because you thought it was easy and then you made a careless mistake,
remind yourself not to sacrifice a correct answer just to save 30 seconds!
Alternatively, if you sped up because you were worried about time, then you need to fix your
timing problems elsewhere in the section.
Group
4s You got these right way too slowly (more than 30 seconds slower than expected).
These are still weaknesses; it doesn’t matter that you’re getting them right! They’re costing you
points elsewhere in the section— possibly more points than you earned by getting the too-slow
ones right.
Figure out why the timing is higher and how you can do these more efficiently. If the timing is
just a little bit too high on one problem of that type, that may be okay—perhaps the problem
is extra hard and long. If you’re consistently going long, however, then perhaps you struggle
to recognize this problem type, struggle to associate this problem type with appropriate and/
or efficient solving techniques, or both. Also realize that, sometimes, the “solution” is simply to
guess faster and move on. Sometimes, it’s better to get something wrong in two minutes than
right in four minutes.
Don’t forget to make sure that you really did know what you were doing on the ones you got
right; if you got lucky, then move questions from this group to group 5.
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