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About Review
MAIN GOALS
to assess understanding
review can reveal issues you hadn’t considered before, or weaknesses in your understanding
to assess processes
review can help you evaluate which skills and habits are strong, and which ones need more work
Effective review is critical to your im-
thoughts, being attracted to the wrong
problem. In particular, it can be helpful
provement. It helps you understand
answers, or simply just wasting time
to think carefully about incorrect an-
issues more deeply, and it helps you
thinking about issues that ultimately
swers—what makes them wrong, and
figure out what you’ve mastered and
were not important.
what type of thinking would lead to
what you need to learn more about,
them being attractive.
and what’s working and what’s not.
Such self-awareness is not neces-
sary for getting a top score—one can
3) During review, always make sure
In general, you should think of your
be a top-scorer without having any
you think about process, and match
review not only as a chance to think
sense of why or how. However, such
up your actual experience with “ide-
about the particular problems that
self-awareness is absolutely essential
al” actions. This can be helpful even
you just solved, but also as a chance to
for improvement. If you want to get
with questions you got correct—think
think more generally about the test as a
better, you need to be able to accu-
about the most efficient and effec-
whole. How does one particular prob-
rately assess yourself. Here are some
tive ways you could have diagrammed
lem match your understanding of that
more specific tips to help ensure more
games, thought of Logical Reasoning
question type, or how does it differ
effective review:
arguments, and so on, and always work
from your understanding? If it differs,
to shrink the gap between actual expe-
what does that reveal? Is there some-
1) Get in the habit of marking questions
riences and that ideal.
thing missing in your understanding, or
for which you are uncertain of the an-
is it incorrect in some way?
swer, or questions which took you too
4) Keep track of the problems that
much time, as you are doing your drill
cause you the most difficulty. Return
Perhaps even more importantly, you
work or taking your practice exams. Pay
to them periodically throughout your
want to use your review to think about
particular attention to the questions
prep and keep re-solving them until
your general processes—the habits you
you thought you got right—the ones
they no longer seem difficult. Periodi-
utilize while solving problems. Even for
you didn’t mark as uncertain—but that
cally think about the collection of dif-
the questions that you get correct, you
you ended up getting wrong. These can
ficult problems as a whole, to see what
want to think about the specific steps
be very useful for correcting bad habits
the list tells you about your strengths
that led you to getting to that right
or misunderstandings.
and weaknesses, and about how you
answer, and just as importantly you
ought to allocate your focus and your
want to think about the mis-steps that
2) During review, always make sure
resources.
led to you having the wrong types of
you understand every aspect of every
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