Eric, a question for you re self made flash cards

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yuri: Senior | Next Rank: 100 Posts; Posts: 45; Joined: Sun Oct 07, 2007 3:54 pm; Location: Seattle, WA; Thanked: 1 times

by yuri » Tue Nov 06, 2007 11:43 pm

Eric,

Someone told me I have to make a flash card and put thought and time into it for each problem I got wrong (verbal and math). Well, I have over 200 handwritten colorful flashcards, but here's the deal. I still have 200 problems unsloved in OG, never touched the Verb and Math books (300 each), and the test is on Tuesday. I'm not scared any more, as the level of stress (and throwing chairs and yelling at computer and books) reached its maximum yesterday night. Now I'm just calm and as they adviced in Kaplan's stress thingy "confident". What's your advice:

1) regarding all the unused material I have on my hands,
2) use of all these flashcards in the next 7 days

THANK YOU.

Yuri

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Re: Eric, a question for you re self made flash cards

by beatthegmat » Wed Nov 07, 2007 5:21 pm

yuri wrote:Eric,

Someone told me I have to make a flash card and put thought and time into it for each problem I got wrong (verbal and math). Well, I have over 200 handwritten colorful flashcards, but here's the deal. I still have 200 problems unsloved in OG, never touched the Verb and Math books (300 each), and the test is on Tuesday. I'm not scared any more, as the level of stress (and throwing chairs and yelling at computer and books) reached its maximum yesterday night. Now I'm just calm and as they adviced in Kaplan's stress thingy "confident". What's your advice:

1) regarding all the unused material I have on my hands,
2) use of all these flashcards in the next 7 days

THANK YOU.

Yuri

Hi Yuri:

I'm not super clear on the questions you are asking, but let me give it a shot.

I wouldn't spend any more time putting together flashcards for the remainder of your OG material. Instead, I would simply go through the remaining questions and do a quick analysis (perhaps in your head) of the questions you got wrong.

With regard to the flashcards you have made--I would make a point of reviewing them at least once per day.

Good luck, you're almost there!

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by yuri » Wed Nov 07, 2007 6:06 pm

You nailed it. Thank you for the answers!

You rock and so does this website. It's the nevernding "If only I had more time..."

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by beatthegmat » Wed Nov 07, 2007 6:09 pm

Haha--you just gotta go for it, yuri!

And thanks for the kind words--this community rocks and that's why I love contributing to it!

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