Good at hard questions, terrible with the easy

by **SYW** Sun Oct 07, 2007 5:05 pm

What should a person do if they are doing well at 600 -800 level questions but somehow doing horribly at the easy questions 300- 500. What should I focus my time on to help my situation

Thanks for any feedback

by **StaceyKoprince** Mon Oct 08, 2007 10:14 pm

You have to figure out why you're making mistakes on lower-level questions. You might have some holes in your fundamental knowledge (maybe you're missing some math or grammar rules, so you get them wrong on easy questions), you might be making careless mistakes (are you trying to do too much math in your head?), or you might "tune out" a bit when you think a question is easier and fall into traps.

Figure out why you're making these mistakes and then you can figure out what to do to combat the problem - but you can't know what to do till you figure out why it's happening. Keep a log of your errors - problem number, what you put, why you put it, and why you were wrong. Find the patterns. Then, if you're having trouble figuring out what to do about a specific bad pattern, come back, give us the data, and ask your question again!