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Review Your Work

Review = Analyze + Act


On average, we recommend 4 minutes of review for every 2 minutes spent doing an Official
Guide problem. Obviously, 4 minutes might be too much for problems youve gotten right &
fast, and maybe not enough for problems youve gotten wrong & slow.
The following questions can help you to do a thorough analysis as you review. Also, list actions
you can take to improve your performance as you identify areas of weakness.
Analyze
A. Foundational Knowledge
1. Did I COMPREHEND the symbols, text, questions, statements, and answer choices?
2. Did I understand the CONTENT being tested?
B. Recognition
3. Was I able to CATEGORIZE this question by topic and subtopic?
4. Did I make a CONNECTION to previous experience?
C. Execution of Primary Strategy
5. Did I choose the best APPROACH?
6. Did I have the SKILLS to follow through?
D. Secondary Strategies
7. Am I comfortable with OTHER STRATEGIES that would have worked, at least partially?
E. Traps & Tricks
8. Do I understand every TRAP & TRICK that the writer built into the question, including
wrong answers?
F. Assessment & Retention
9. Have I MASTERED this problem?
10. Will I REMEMBER?
As a final note, be sure to study connections between problems. Often, more difficult problems
are really easier problems in disguise, using similar concepts.
Look at the next two pages for ideas on how to act on problems that need more attention.

Quant Review Instructions


You can put all or some of the following on a flashcard.
Re-write question

Which strategy guide covers this question? ________________________ Chapter? ________


What possible rephrase is there?
Show at multiple methods for solving this problem:

What are the traps for this problem?

Lesson/Take-Away
Find a similar problem in the OG: ____________________
Write a similar problem:

Verbal Review Instructions


Follow these instructions for reviewing tough verbal problems.
Sentence Correction
1) Write out the full sentence with the correct answer embedded.
2) Write out the splits (the variations among the answer choices). Highlight the correct
choice & explain why.
3) Consider the following: How are the WRONG answers all variations from the correct
answer? What are all the splits? What split(s) should you have used initially to be most
efficient? What are the principles in conflict (e.g., parallelism vs. concision), and which
one won?

Critical Reasoning
1) Write down the notes you SHOULD have put down notes that would have been fast &
easy to do, and that would have captured the gist of the argument.
2) Figure out if you could have predicted anything about the right answer from the
argument before looking at the choices. What kind of problem is it?
3) For each answer choice, explain why it is right or wrong (in a few words only). Can you
describe how the argument is constructed and how the right answer fits into it (or does
not for except questions)?

Reading Comprehension
1) Write down the notes you SHOULD have put down notes that would have been fast &
easy to do, and that would have captured the gist of the passage.
2) For specific questions: write down the keywords, the proof sentence(s), and the simple
notes you should have taken on the proof sentence(s) to make the thought portable (so
that you could eliminate answer choices holding the correct idea in your head).
3) For all questions: explain why each answer choice is right or wrong (in a few words
only). What tricks did the test writers embed to throw you off for instance, red herring
key words, or synonym switches to disguise the truth?

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