okcpa2015 said —> By no means did I do 300 in one sitting. — When reviewing I would wake up and do as many as possible in an hour. Head to work. Do about 25 before I started working. Do as many as I could at lunch. Then review when I got home. Can't eat the elephant in one bite… —
Psychologically, this technique is called “chunking”, In programming, project management, accounting and the sciences it's called “stepwise refinement”. In a computer program, if you know what a “block of code” is, then that's a cohesive “chunk”, which would probably represent one *step* in an algortihm.
Chunking can be used for memory or reading comprehension or both.
The idea is like – if you bought a pizza, could you eat it all at once? No. If you tried, you'd end up with it on your face and shirt and probably choke to death. Instead, you'd cut the pizza into slices and then take a bit at a time. So too with the MCQs. Suppose there are 100 in a chapter section. Cut it into four study sections. Do 25 at one sitting; 25 at another and so on, until you do all 100. Try it again, and you'll see improvement. Eventually all 100 will come easily, since you will know what you're doing at that point.
In game theory, this would be considered a war of attrition, as – no matter how fast you eat and digest – the pizza will gradually “atrophy” and eventually be all gobbled up. Once you know 10 MCQs, you inevitably have 90 left; learn another, and youonly have 80 left, and so on. Eventually, you'll get them all done.
Chunking is not really a problem solving strategy, so much as a project management one. But – as you learn how to solve the problems – you build up your endurance to handle a greater number of them.
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