In the beginning, do you prioritize understanding foundations a lot or just enough?

kiazcmuletakiazcmuleta Live Member
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Do you recommend getting the core curriculum foundation lessons down as much as possible before moving on to the lessons on logic and reading comprehension (as well as drills and PTs)? Sometimes I get nervous that I’m spending too much time on one foundation section. At the same time, I feel like it’s important and doesn’t make sense to continue with the core curriculum lessons if I don’t feel confident in a certain part of the foundation lessons. I just want to make sure that, although I'm spending time on foundational things I don't get yet, I'm not seeking perfection at those things either. I'm studying full time and only have 3 months, so I want to make sure I'm not spending too much time on foundations.

Did you recommend prioritizing understanding the foundations a lot or just enough?
  1. Did you recommending prioritizing understanding the foundations a lot or just enough?12 votes
    1. Understand the foundations as much as possible before doing anything else.
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    2. Understand the foundations, but you don't need to be good at all of it.
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Comments

  • natemanwell1natemanwell1 Core Member
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    If you're not shooting for perfection, you're gonna leave a lot of material unlearned and that's gonna give you a big risk cause you essentially have no margin for error if you're going for your target score. I think the core curriculum is a bit overcomplicated but if you don't understand that I would definitely finish that. You don't want to start taking tests without the core skills down, that would be like practicing basketball by playing without knowing how to pass or shoot.

  • jack.boczarjack.boczar Alum Member
    14 karma

    You have to have the foundations down like the back of your hand because when the exam comes the writers will pull out every trick and all you can do is rely on your foundational training under the timed pressure. Now, that doesn't mean you should just memorize the lectures on 7Sage; rather, I'd recommend doing practice problems along with the lectures to better ingrain the concepts.

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