How do you ANALYZE your practice tests?

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<p>I've read in a lot of the discussions on CC that one of the best ways to improve your SAT score is to take bluebook practice tests and go back and analyze them, even the right answers.</p>

<p>My question is,
how does one go about doing this -- what do you mean by "analyze?" What do you mark up on the pages? What do you make sure you look for? Do you write down what kind of question it is? Or do you just read the answer explanations, and that's it? </p>

<p>Another thing is, how do you analyze your blue book tests if they do not provide answer explanations for the majority of the tests?</p>

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<p>I see what I did wrong, Why I did it wrong, and then I leave it and try it again the next day. If I get it wrong again, I repeat process.</p>

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<p>For Math:
I take all questions I got wrong, guessed on, or solved in a very roundabout way, and I redo them. I take my time, and really try to immerse myself in the math. With hard math questions, there's always something you have to notice, and once I notice it (whether it's the application of a special right triangle theorem, substitution of fractional decimals, etc.) I know I'm done with the problem</p>

<p>For reading:
I reread the parts of the passage that are around the questions I got wrong or guessed on and try to find the line that supports the correct answers, and the lines, or lack thereof, that contradict the other four answer choices. I know I'm done when I'm 100% sure that the four incorrect answer choices are incorrect BASED ON THE PASSAGE and the one remaining choice is correct BASED ON THE PASSAGE.</p>

<p>For writing:
I look at the questions I got wrong, the questions I thought had multiple errors, and the questions I guessed on. Doing these questions again is pointless, so I do two things with them. I infer the rule governing the incorrect grammar, the correct answer choice. I then look at the grammatically correct choices that I thought may be incorrect and determine why they're correct and infer the governing rule. With hard sentence correction questions, there's usually a trick, and it's good to notice those tricks. For example, the four incorrect answer choices will have very subtle grammatical mistakes and the correct answer choice, while it has no mistakes, it has the clauses reversed. Or, the correct answer choice will have a semi-colon connecting two simple clauses, and all others will be "more sophisticated" sentences using commas.</p>

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<p>ooh that sounds like a very good idea...too bad i already took the SATs. they were painful. >.<</p>

<p>my strategies: wrong? must be the book's fault. :) i would get frustrated if i think otherwise... and that = ugly</p>

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<p>i would like an answer to this too</p>

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<p>Honestly, I review all of the questions when I review my practice tests. I look at college board's explanation for the problem, which is usually the best way to get to the answer, and try to think like them.</p>

<p>I don't do practice tests more than once after analyzing them, I think it's kind of pointless.</p>

<p>It has helped me so far.</p>

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<p>College Board's price for obtaining the answers is so steep :( </p>

<p>Is there any other way to get answer explanations without spending the money?</p>

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<p>I use Supermemo for everything that I get wrong.</p>

<p>It's a tedious program, so don't use it unless you have several weeks.</p>

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<p>What's "Supermemo?"</p>

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<p>yah collegeboard is such a monopoly lol</p>