Breaking into 170s?

avectravail13

I’ve been consistently scoring in the high 160s, and am looking to solidly make it into the 170s by the June test date. I’ve found on my last 3 PTs, I would’ve gotten 172-173 but switched some of my answers from the right choices to the wrong ones at the last second (second guessing myself). Any tips?

MattyCzar

Personally, I find I've progressed the most by wrong answer journaling, as well as getting enough sleep the days leading up to a test. I found I was also getting some questions I changed wrong, so I stopped changing my answer from one I wasn't sure on to another I wasn't sure on. That's become my general rule going forward, with the extra minute or two, review one or two flagged answers, but don't change them unless you're willing to bet money that you're changing it to the correct answer.

Cant Get Right

I use an instant replay rule standard for changing my answer on review. In sports, a referee's call can be overruled, but only after careful scrutiny. The footage review must affirmatively prove the call was wrong in order to change it. Revealing uncertainty or ambiguity is not enough. So defer to your original choice unless you can affirmatively overturn it. This is an important rule to check a major bias: We feel much more productive in review when it results in a changed answer. As your situation reveals, this is not necessarily the case.

Caveat on all this: You have to balance this with looking at questions where you did change your answer to a right one. It is all too easy to overlook the questions where you correctly changed your answer. You could be losing some points from switching your answer while netting a total gain.