Hi guys, trying to stay rational here: does any of you have a similar experience when practicing the 5lb → I watched the class videos and tried the questions by pausing the video, understood it all and it went quite well mostly. Then reread my notes and started the 5lb practice chapter for e.g. primes and divisibility. Everything I do is wrong! I have 2/10 (for example) right answers. I don’t feel I’m entirely elementary school level but any tips on what is going wrong? Maybe I’m not deliberate enough in my practice? I both want to do better during practice but also to remain sane, so any tip is welcome. Thanks!
If you’re touching quants after a long time then you can be a little rusty at first , just give it time and practice everyday if you can ! Also, spend time on clearing the basics and try to maintain an error log. It may seem very overwhelming at first but in due time you will see the benefits of the error log.
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Hi HoldMyBeer, thanks for this and thanks for the reassurance. Although we’re not in therapy here, it still helps 
So I learned about the errorlog when at first I wanted to study for the GMAT then changed to GRE because it’ just more user friendly and understandable imho. Back then I would log the question number, the time spent (I’m not doing timed practice atm) and tried to write what the reason was I made a mistake. Categories were: lacking theory, reading error and can’t think of a different one now. Do you have a recommendation on how to effectively make this error log, also to have useful stuff at hand for my tutoring sessions? Or would you make is as i described above. Also sometimes I just don’t follow the explanations in the 5lb book, any tips on that?
Before summer I studied hard but was working and finishing another Master’s at the same time. So I can’t say I’m entirely new to the math but it’s the first week after summer break I’m restarting. However, it feels like I started from scratch…
Here is a good post on how to do error-logs although, its not targeted at GRE but it offers very good tips on how to maintain one ! https://gmatclub.com/forum/the-error-log-129501.html.
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