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The Prettier Your Mistake Notebook, the Less It Works — How to Build a Retest Device, Not a Fair Copy
2026-07-24 18:30:00 · Learning
Question the standard advice to "copy your mistakes neatly into a notebook." Rewriting, transcribing, and rereading feel like studying but have repeatedly been reported among the least efficient methods for retention; what works, the research says, is retrieval practice — recalling without looking — and spaced repetition — retrying just as you start to forget. So design your mistake notebook not as a fair-copy album but as a personal retest device: a three-way diagnosis for selecting which mistakes get in, a format that bans copying model answers, a next-day → 3-day → 1-week re-solving template, a strike-through graduation rule after two spaced consecutive correct answers, and a hard cost cap of 3 minutes per problem, 10 minutes per day — each step with the "why" behind it.
Read moreHow to Actually Work Through a Problem Set — Go Rough on the First Pass, the Real Work Starts on the Second
2026-07-01 18:00:00 · Learning
How much a problem set moves your score depends less on how many questions you solved than on how you cycled through them. Solve everything without timing yourself on the first pass, carry only the wrong ones into the second, and repeat the third pass until they're fully solved. A step-by-step guide — with the reasoning behind each step — to combining the grade-level drills, topic-based question sets, the review list, and the Impact department on passed.jp's English problem set.
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