Mock exam practice · Wrong-answer notebook + time allocation
Many people solve a past exam hard, score it, check only whether each answer was right or wrong, and move to the next session. But a score only tells you your current ability; it does not raise it. The real study begins after scoring.
After this card, you will know how to analyze wrong answers, using past exams as a tool for finding weak spots rather than checking scores, and how to allocate time in the real exam.
You solved one past exam and finished scoring. What is the best next action for raising your skill?
Scoring is a thermometer that tells you the temperature now. But if you only take the temperature and use no medicine, the fever does not go down. The real value of a past exam is not the score but showing where you fall apart. So the study starts after scoring.
Try sorting wrong questions by reason. ① Did not know the word ② did not know the grammar ③ ran out of time ④ knew it but slipped. Split this way, the prescriptions differ. For ① and ②, fill the knowledge; for ③, fix time strategy; for ④, fix the habit of reading questions. If you lump them as "just got it wrong," you cannot see what to study.
The purpose of a wrong-answer notebook is not to copy things over neatly. Write only the core of the missed question briefly (the word or grammar you did not know, the choice that confused you), and a few days later solve that question again without the answer to make it meaningful. If you solve it again and miss it again, that is your real weak spot, so put your time there.
The real exam is a battle over time as much as ability. Listening speed is fixed by the audio, so in reading set an allocation in advance, such as how many seconds per question, fast at the front and time saved for the long passages at the back. Time yourself with the real exam time from the moment you practice on past exams, and once this allocation is in your body, you will not waver in the exam room.
A past exam is a tool for finding weak spots, not a test for checking your score.
Scoring tells you your current ability but does not raise it. Sort the reasons for mistakes into words, grammar, time, and slips to split the prescriptions, note wrong answers briefly, and solve them again a few days later to pick out your real weak spots. Decide your exam time allocation in advance and practice with that time from past exams on, and you can turn what you know into points in the exam room just as it is. On the Minimum Pass Track, quickly fix only the wrong answers in high-point types; on the Full Score Track, bring every wrong answer and slip to 0.