So I’m starting my retakes now and just wanted to see how you all usually approach restudying. Do you re-watch the lectures? Or just read and do the homework problems again? Thanks!
Mamabear's story sounds like it is a third possible reason for a retake being harder– you study so hard that you kill testlet #1 and therefore get a difficult testlet #2? Something like that. Plus there's the basic every test is different theory, and you just happen to get a harder one on the retake.
I just worry, jrd, that the current plan only continues the same pattern you were on for all of your first tries, and therefore will yield the same result. I want you to give yourself the best chance of passing.
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Your plan of giving it everything you've got for the first week and then deciding sounds reasonable. Rescheduling will cost the same today as it will 6 days before the test, right? You should have a pretty good idea of where you are at that point.
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I guess I also wonder what is different about your studying this time than the last time you took it. If you didn't change your studying, should you expect better results? I studied for my retake significantly better than the first take and I was also dual studying BEC and AUD at the same time originally because I had them scheduled only two weeks apart (dumb, I know).
Yes the rescheduling fee would be the same 6 days out.
I didn't take any kind of notes last time around and rushed through everything just trying to get the Becker Promise. I also did not complete all of the sims. This time I am taking notes after reading the chapters and writing down everything I miss on the homework. I was weak in the area of sims last time so I am going to print the solutions out to those so I can really study them while I'm doing them.
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