Best method for reviewing practice tests?

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<p>What do you guys do to ensure that you learn from your mistakes and improve for your next practice tests? Also, how long do you guys usually spend reviewing? A day or two until the next practice test? What I usually do is spend a day doing 3 timed sections from the blue book ( one Critical Reading, one Writing, one Math), and then two days for review. I really want to improve, so can you guys please tell me what you all do for review?</p>

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<p>I cut out my missed writing and math problems and compiled them into a notebook, making a portfolio of errors I’m prone to make. Then I flipped through it time to time and after a while I recognized where I made silly mistakes, effectively ending their occurrence.</p>

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<p>Wow, that’s a really good method travismarie. I’ve tried making lists of mistakes, but I’ve been having trouble consistently doing it. I’ll try making that portfolio.</p>

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<p>Thank you cheerioswithmilk, it really worked for me. Here’s an example from my book: <a href=“http://i.imgur.com/MhVg7.jpg[/url]”>http://i.imgur.com/MhVg7.jpg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>bumping this for my replies</p>

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<p>It depends on how consistently you are doign this. for me, I take an hour a day from watching tv to rewiew one section. I do this for 3 days. then on the 4th, i take a full on test. We learn from our mistakes by redoing them consistently. But with more practice, youll see a pattern between the problems, and how to approach them.</p>

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<p>Thanks for the link travismarie, it was really helpful.</p>

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<p>@ Travismarie, where do you cut the questions you got wrong from. Do you cut the questions from the BB? If not, where do you get them from?</p>

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<p>I went to a prep class that supplied print outs of SATs. But you could use the Blue Book too. It’s not like you’re ever going to want to retake the tests.</p>

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<p>travismarie, that was a brilliant idea, im going to do that from now on</p>

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<p>Props to travismarie for creativity.</p>

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<p>Oh, and after you are done grading a section…go back to the questions you got wrong and try them again without any official explanation to help you. Read the passage and see if you can figure out by yourself why you were wrong, or attempt to do a math problem again using a different approach. Try this, and then check the explanations…this helps you to play more of an active role in getting better, rather than reading why something is wrong and then letting it go through you without sinking in.</p>

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<p>yea, I now always rework each section after looking at the explanations. I also explain to myself how to solve each problem in math, and how to deduce the answers in critical reading and writing, pretending that I am a tutor. I think it help to learn if you explain out loud to yourself how to solve all of the problems.</p>

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<p>Haha I like travismarie’s idea, but I can never bring myself to cut out parts from my BB or from practice tests.</p>

<p>For me, after checking answers, I’ll paste a post-it note on the front of that test and write the question numbers of the questions I did wrongly. Usually I review CB’s answer explanations for ALL writing questions, math questions that I’m unsure of/took a longer time to do, and CR questions that I did wrongly.</p>

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<p>I like to use Khan Academy to review incorrect math answers. I don’t like the BB explanations.</p>