How come this is never asked?

<p>Yes, the collegeboard only has a certain number of TYPES of questions - just like what you said mozmeister. Maybe other people don't notice it, but I sure do. The week of the PSAT, for example, I took 2 or 3 practice tests. Guess what? There was a passage on one of my practices that was the exact frame of the one on the PSAT. It had the same answer formats and everything, so what might have been a potentially difficult passage (had to do with a south american, female writer struggling with past and present cultural bonds in america or something) turned into a super easy one. I was able to get a 78 on the CR with large thanks to having seen the passage and its questions analyzed beforehand. </p>

<p>The tests won't ever repeat questions, but they will repeat the types/topics of questions. The same thing goes for the answers to those questions. On that PSAT passage the questions were all exactly the same only different information like names/countries was substituted in.</p>

<p>Are you a gimmick or just retarded?</p>

<p>It's given that you need to review your wrong answers after taking practice tests. There is almost no point, otherwise. This question is never asked because it's common sense. I can't believe you spent all this effort in trying to prove 99% of previous advice-givers wrong, by pointing out the incredibly obvious...</p>

<p>I really don't understand the entire point of this thread. You said you had a question which people are trying to answer but I think you just wanted to make a statement(which you explained in the post you wrote to me) but whatever. ;)</p>

<p>Going back and analyzing what you did wrong is NOT memorizing. Your goal is to see what questions you get wrong, analyze why you got them wrong, and how to get them right in the future. I don't know why you keep saying to memorize processes.</p>

<p>I think mozillameister essentially means to say that the test is basically the same test with different material in it. All the concepts are pretty much the same, the format is pretty much the same, etc. The only things that are different are the numbers, the passages, and such... Thus learning how to approach each question will benefit someone greatly. Practically you should just learn the tactics to approach all the types of questions on the test... and thats why people use the CB blue book because its from the actually test company, thus the patterns of the types of questions are the same as the actual test.</p>

<p>I agree that that is what he is trying to say, I'm just confused because he mentioned that he was asking a question.</p>

<p>mozilla -
there is this stickkkky ;) that might have answers yo are looking for:
Xiggi's</a> SAT prep advice.
If it seems too massive for lurking, slink straight to xiggi's posts there.</p>

<p>Honing of strategy skills is a great goal!
Especially when you are way ahead in tactical ones.
How do you make people start explaining to each other what you meant when you said something you might not meant or meant to ask but just said it instead of letting somebody else guess your question even if you already guessed the answer? :D</p>

<p>One should definitely always review questions he missed, rework them a second time without knowing the correct answer, and then read any solutions/explanations that might be provided along with the questions. I actually recommend that my students review some questions they answered CORRECTLY as well, since those may well represent good guesses, and even when one answers a question correctly, there still may be nuances or other insights she can gain from the question.</p>

<p>The PRINCIPLES and general methods of solution are the most important to understand and internalize, not the actual answer or sometimes even the specifics of the solution. In theory, once a student masters all of these (and vocabulary, mathematical facts and formulas, grammatical rules, proper pacing, etc.), she is well on her way to a 2400.</p>

<p>But I'm sure all the CCers already knew all of this. :)</p>