Focus more on the forest and less on the trees. The individual questions are only worth reviewing to the extent that they give you insight into what strategies are working for you and what categories you need to devote more time to. So the emphasis shouldn't be on making sure you understand the individual questions you've missed - though that is worthwhile - it should be on distilling the test into 3-5 concrete actionable steps. If, upon review, it turned out you were missing questions because you were spending too much time doing brutal algebra and not employing simple strategies, such as picking number and working with the answer choices, that's one thing. If you were missing questions because you simply require more practice in a given category, that's quite another. And, of course, there could be a blend. It's possible that after one test, your action steps will look something like: 1) remember to pick '100' as a starting value for tough percent change questions, 2) do drills to improve at rate/work questions and combinatorics, and 3) remember to try the assumption negation technique for tough "assumption" question in Critical Reasoning. Then, once some time has passed, you'll repeat the process on the next practice test. Wash/rinse/repeat until you're hitting or exceeding your goal score.Blackkings wrote:This Might Seem like a simple question, but what is the best strategy for reviewing my CATs. In the past, I would review every question right and wrong and add them to my error log. This process didn't help much since I'll never see these questions again, and it is also very time-consuming. I wanted to know if I'm doing this process right or does anyone have any tips on how to improve this process?
