Long Term Study Goals (PT's) Forum

[SunDevil14]

In the long term, should you be more concerned with increasing your overall average score rather than successively increasing scores on each test and or reaching target scores on any one given test?

I tend to feel better about having a tight distribution of scores that are slowly inching upward, rather than a wide distribution that may have higher peaks but also lower valleys.

I always try maintain confident and optimistic while studying. I feel less anxious when I score lower than previous, but still increase my overall average for the last month and half. As opposed to relatively high scores followed by relatively low scores.

166, 168, 164, 166 > 161, 169, 159, 170

[20170322]

In the long term, should you be more concerned with increasing your overall average score rather than successively increasing scores on each test and or reaching target scores on any one given test?

I tend to feel better about having a tight distribution of scores that are slowly inching upward, rather than a wide distribution that may have higher peaks but also lower valleys.

I always try maintain confident and optimistic while studying. I feel less anxious when I score lower than previous, but still increase my overall average for the last month and half. As opposed to relatively high scores followed by relatively low scores.

166, 168, 164, 166 > 161, 169, 159, 170

Think about it like whack-a-mole. Take a PT, find your worst area. Drill it like hell. Take another PT. Drill that worst area. Rinse, repeat. Your scores will rise consistently if you do this.

[SunDevil14]

Thanks for the input, as of today I have shifted my focus to PT's and Drilling. First month and a half was more review/prep material.

[Blueprint Mithun]

In the long term, should you be more concerned with increasing your overall average score rather than successively increasing scores on each test and or reaching target scores on any one given test?

I tend to feel better about having a tight distribution of scores that are slowly inching upward, rather than a wide distribution that may have higher peaks but also lower valleys.

I always try maintain confident and optimistic while studying. I feel less anxious when I score lower than previous, but still increase my overall average for the last month and half. As opposed to relatively high scores followed by relatively low scores.

166, 168, 164, 166 > 161, 169, 159, 170

It seems like you're overthinking this a bit. No matter how well you do on a preptest, your approach to reviewing should be to go over each question you got wrong or struggled with slowly and carefully, examining each answer choice. Keep track of any specific weaknesses or patterns. Try to extrapolate a lesson out of your review - is there anything you need to pay more attention to? If you did especially poorly on a section, maybe save it and come back and redo it in a couple of weeks.