Alright, so I'm looking for a good explanation about how a person's accuracy will improve under time constraints. Here's where I'm coming from: when I do the questions un-timed I'm getting them pretty much all right with the exception of a question here or there due to mental laziness. Once the clock is on, I'm getting anywhere from 2-8 incorrect. My speed, on the other hand is good. I've been using a stop watch so I push myself to go a little faster than I would during untimed practice. I seem to not be able to consider, for example, all possibilities for a logic game's question or how to even solve some questions, but once the clock is off, it becomes clear to me. So I'm guessing that two things are going on; (1) the stress of speed is interfering with the fluidity of my mind at times and (2) there must be some questions that I haven't nailed down or else they'd be automatic for me like others are. How do I resolve these issues? Is review supposed to help combat the lack of mastery for very specific questions within a logic game? And will continued practice with time constraints help me get rid of some of the stress so that I can think better under the pressure of the clock? I guess I'm just looking for some reassurance that more review, mastery, and timing practice will iron my issues out in light of the fact that my un timed practice is going well.
Sorry for the lengthy question. I just finished 12 logic games.
Timing Practice Forum
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Jeffort
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Re: Timing Practice
Your perspective about how to improve timed performance is accurate. Transitioning high accuracy untimed to high accuracy timed requires a lot of after each attempt review to pinpoint all of your weaknesses/mistakes that came into play with questions you got wrong and also ones you got correct but struggled with.
Thorough review and learning as much as you possibly can from every mistake you make, no matter how trivial or seemingly minor carelessness or whatever in ways to alter your habits/processes and make yourself less prone to making them again IS where all the magic happens that leads to significant score improvement under timed conditions.
How much you learn and improve from each set of practice questions is heavily dependent on how thoroughly and deeply you review to learn everything possible you can from your performance/mistakes on each question you drill. Quick shallow review doesn't lead to much improvement or cause it to happen quickly. The better and deeper the review, the faster you will improve and less materials you have to burn through with timed practice to do it. You want to think about, identify and itemize every single little mistake you made in your entire process from start to finish with every question you got wrong or struggled with.
Don't try to simplify or minimize your mistakes. Instead, do the reverse and nitpick every single step of your step by step thought, analysis and decision making processes from beginning of the question for LR or beginning of game for LG all the way to making your final answer choice decision to identify all weaknesses in the process, not just the final fatal one right before making your final answer choice decision. Tracing your process all the way back is crucial to figure out all the ways you can and need to improve your skills and approaches. Once you figure out your mistakes you work on ways to improve your skills and knowledge to hopefully prevent them from happening again. Some mistakes will be processes errors (didn't go through the right steps of analysis/got careless/hasty) while others will be knowledge/logic/reasoning/understanding/misunderstanding mistakes that indicate more serious foundational issues that need to be worked on. Different types of mistakes have different solutions so gotta get into a lot of detail with a deep honest look at the quality of the analysis you applied to the questions to figure out the best solutions for improving it in every way possible.
The nervousness from time pressure you described is normal at first when getting into timed sections but should go away pretty fast just from getting used to it with more practice.
Thorough review and learning as much as you possibly can from every mistake you make, no matter how trivial or seemingly minor carelessness or whatever in ways to alter your habits/processes and make yourself less prone to making them again IS where all the magic happens that leads to significant score improvement under timed conditions.
How much you learn and improve from each set of practice questions is heavily dependent on how thoroughly and deeply you review to learn everything possible you can from your performance/mistakes on each question you drill. Quick shallow review doesn't lead to much improvement or cause it to happen quickly. The better and deeper the review, the faster you will improve and less materials you have to burn through with timed practice to do it. You want to think about, identify and itemize every single little mistake you made in your entire process from start to finish with every question you got wrong or struggled with.
Don't try to simplify or minimize your mistakes. Instead, do the reverse and nitpick every single step of your step by step thought, analysis and decision making processes from beginning of the question for LR or beginning of game for LG all the way to making your final answer choice decision to identify all weaknesses in the process, not just the final fatal one right before making your final answer choice decision. Tracing your process all the way back is crucial to figure out all the ways you can and need to improve your skills and approaches. Once you figure out your mistakes you work on ways to improve your skills and knowledge to hopefully prevent them from happening again. Some mistakes will be processes errors (didn't go through the right steps of analysis/got careless/hasty) while others will be knowledge/logic/reasoning/understanding/misunderstanding mistakes that indicate more serious foundational issues that need to be worked on. Different types of mistakes have different solutions so gotta get into a lot of detail with a deep honest look at the quality of the analysis you applied to the questions to figure out the best solutions for improving it in every way possible.
The nervousness from time pressure you described is normal at first when getting into timed sections but should go away pretty fast just from getting used to it with more practice.
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InPursuitOfaPassion
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Re: Timing Practice
Thank you, Jeffort! That helps me tremendously!
