What is wrong with my studying strategy? ** Please help **

[parvazi]

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Hi everyone!

My Dat is in 10 days and I keep on getting 19's on every topic both on Bootcamp and Quvalt!
I don't know why I keep on getting the same number over and over again after so many hours of studing.
When I go through my tests, I realize that I have made stupid little mistakes or I have read the question by mistake and lead me to answer it incorrectly.

According to my profile, I need 21+ and I know that I can do this! But these numbers are making me more nervous as I get closer to the actual date. I still have 6 more QV tests to take and would wanna go over BC another time before my test. Is this a good idea or should I take less tests and focus more on reading my wrongs in destroyer/chads/BC and go over bio another time?

Please let me know if you have any recommendations for me? I highly appreciate your feedback <3

 

[Graffix]

If you find that you're getting questions wrong, a lot, rather than keeping a mental note of why you got them wrong, write them down in a notebook. For my DAT i would fold pages in half in a notebook and write every single question that i got wrong down on the left side and answers on the right. Even if I got it wrong for a reading error or carelessness, i would have a physical reminder of where I went wrong. Towards the end of my studying, I had a notebook of every question I had ever missed and this helped me review really well.

It might be a little late to go back and write every question that you got wrong and do something like this... but maybe give writing questions down and why you got them wrong might help clue in some of your weaknesses. Fully understand why you got questions wrong before moving on. I would vote to make sure you know every question you got wrong in destroyer and BC.

 

[Rand627]

Definitely don't go over videos again. At least for me, the conceptual videos help you with background knowledge while actual problem solving helps really solidify it. I wouldn't worry too much about your silly mistakes. When you're taking the actual test you'll be MUCH more hyped up then you are now. If you can channel that extra energy you should be able to sort out through those easy mistakes.

 

[parvazi]

Definitely don't go over videos again. At least for me, the conceptual videos help you with background knowledge while actual problem solving helps really solidify it. I wouldn't worry too much about your silly mistakes. When you're taking the actual test you'll be MUCH more hyped up then you are now. If you can channel that extra energy you should be able to sort out through those easy mistakes.

Thank you so much! I'm going over my destroyer mistakes and it helped me boost up my grades ! should def keep doing this until my test date.

 

[parvazi]

If you find that you're getting questions wrong, a lot, rather than keeping a mental note of why you got them wrong, write them down in a notebook. For my DAT i would fold pages in half in a notebook and write every single question that i got wrong down on the left side and answers on the right. Even if I got it wrong for a reading error or carelessness, i would have a physical reminder of where I went wrong. Towards the end of my studying, I had a notebook of every question I had ever missed and this helped me review really well.

It might be a little late to go back and write every question that you got wrong and do something like this... but maybe give writing questions down and why you got them wrong might help clue in some of your weaknesses. Fully understand why you got questions wrong before moving on. I would vote to make sure you know every question you got wrong in destroyer and BC.

Thank you so much! I have already made two notebooks put of my mistakes, I just went over them again and it helped me a lot