Logs - How and when to review problems I got wrong?

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I have a directory of 10-20 A4 pages of problems I have got wrong.

For every problem I get wrong in a CAT or any other problem, in e.g. OG/Verbal/Quant Review/KnewtonQuestionBank, I log it in a word document so it can be reviewed later.

However, the number of log pages has grown. And I have long backlog which I need work with to not fall behind pre-assessments, lesson preparation, homework, videos, extra OG practice, CAT-practice etc.

All this kind of work "ahead" has postponed the walk through of all the logs I have created. Now, I am planning to walk through all the logs at once when I am finished with all the Knewton ordinary sessions.

And finally the problem is to know how the logs themselves are best reviewed to not fail with a similar problem again. I guess it is not sufficient to just redo a failed problem once, maybe redo it once per week? And what if I failed on a problem because of I had to stress through the problem, and now I can get it night? :S

Anyone who keep logs and can tell from experience what works, and what does not?

What is a bit worrying is that it feels like I have never a chance to go back and look into why I failed on a specific problem...
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by arora007 » Sat Feb 26, 2011 11:44 am
Firstly Its a fantastic thing that you have logged all your problems/mistakes while practicing. bkw I am going to share my story over here... this very specific and good question. My father was a scientist and there was stress on Science and Math at home, this was probably the reason I was really weak in English grammar, English in general.

Since I identified my weak area as Sentence correction, I started following the posts of a couple of experts on this forum. I infact started copying the problem, copying a few lines of important explanation. and a generic takeaway. Then I would mark the problem, the solution and the takeaway in different color-codes. The compilation became big and I realized that its difficult to review it daily, the review became a weekend affair...(any new data reviewed daily for a week before it became a weekly review) however, I would just need to glance on the green colored takeaway and I would recall the kind of mistake I made.

One thing that clearly helped me in the long run was. Following these experts' expert comments (the key takeaways) and secondly was the collation of few good threads.

1/ I would firstly ask you to segregate the problems', their solutions and the Key Take aways.
2/ Plan a definite time each day to review( the time when your mind is fresh...typically mornings!).
3/ Start reviewing with the key takeaway
4/ Look at the question and try to solve, If you are able to solve, great... from next time on you just need to review the takeaway only.
5/ Use some notation/colorcode for takeawys which you have imbibed and absorbed, digested half cooked and still raw
6/ Once in a while try solve the question.

I hope you will see the difference.
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