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Main ideas / lessons

• Test-taking is both essential and difficult during the entrance-exam preparation year. Many students fail not because they don’t know the subjects, but because they aren’t skilled at taking tests.
• Ignore oversimplified advice (especially from social media/Instagram) suggesting success comes from doing lots of tests without truly learning.
• Taking tests doesn’t replace studying: if you don’t learn the subject properly, practicing tests alone becomes almost useless.
• Use two types of testing throughout the year (both are important):
  • Educational tests (practice immediately after studying)
  • Assessment tests (timed, spaced practice that becomes more prominent later)
• Introduce timed/assessment tests gradually so you don’t feel shocked by exam conditions.
• After every test, correct and review—especially the questions you missed—to diagnose whether the issue is:
  • carelessness, or
  • weak understanding / poor learning.
• Unattempted or “untouched” topics/tests are a warning sign that you didn’t really learn.
• Success comes from anticipating and preventing surprises during the real exam through realistic practice and error review.
• Most failures in timed conditions usually come from insufficient depth in studying, leading to forgetting by test day.

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Methodology / instructions (detailed)

1) Don’t start with tests—start by learning

• First priority: learn the subject well, because test practice without mastery won’t work.
• Entrance exam preparation can be affected by other factors like GPA, but the emphasis is that proper subject learning must come first.

2) Use both educational and assessment testing

• The year should include:
  • Educational tests taken immediately after reading/studying the topic
  • Assessment tests taken timed and scheduled after a gap from when you studied

3) Recommended yearly ratio and how to shift it

• At the beginning of the year, use an approximate ratio:
  • 70 educational tests
  • 30 assessment (timed) tests
• As you get closer to the end of the year:
  • increase the proportion of assessment tests (timed practice becomes more dominant)

4) How to take educational tests

• After reading a topic:
  • take the educational tests right away
• To check your answers:
  • review step-by-step
  • check answers by referring to the book
  • compare your answers with the correct solutions

5) How to take assessment (timed) tests

• Take assessment tests after some interval from studying.
• Example flow:
  • Today you read a math function section → take educational tests
  • The next day → take assessment tests (timed)

6) Keep assessment practice close to exam conditions

• Align the volume of timed practice with expected exam conditions.
• Example:
  • If the exam gives 1 minute per math question
  • practice should match it (e.g., 30 questions in 30 minutes)

7) Use correct test-taking behavior during timed tests

• During assessment tests:
  • do not look at the answer key/answer sheet until the last question is finished
• After completing the timed test:
  • count:
    • how many you got correct
    • how many you got wrong
    • how many you didn’t solve correctly
  • review and record your results (track performance)

8) Identify why you struggle (common causes)

• If you perform poorly in timed conditions (example: “at 2:30 on the test”):
  • in about 90% of cases, it’s because you didn’t learn deeply
  • you studied superficially, so you forgot what you learned by exam time

9) Correct tests immediately and analyze errors

After each test:

• Review correct answers too, because:
  • sometimes you may have gotten it right by chance (e.g., a multi-part calculation where one part fooled you)
• Review wrong/failed answers carefully:
  • If the issue is carelessness:
    • increase practice to improve accuracy
  • If the issue is weak learning:
    • go back to the material and do more tests/reading until the concept is solid

10) Treat “the tests you didn’t take” as the most dangerous

• Unattempted items are especially dangerous:
  • if you didn’t try because you “ran out of time” or avoided it, it indicates you didn’t truly learn
• Some doubt is acceptable if you were close, but serious signals include:
  • missing something completely (no solution idea)
  • having the answer somewhere else but failing to produce it

11) Use results to adjust your study system

• If your performance suggests you couldn’t answer many questions despite doing many tests:
  • your study method is likely incorrect
  • return to the textbook and reassess how you learned and practiced
• The goal is to ensure you reach the entrance exam without being surprised.

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Speakers / sources featured

• Nafis (main speaker/creator of the channel)
• Mentioned entities (not as direct sources with a formal role in the method):
  • Instagram advice pages (criticized as misleading)
  • An unnamed college entrance exam consultant (used as an example)
  • Imam Ali and the Prophet (mentioned as examples of succeeding through preparation and insight)