The Practice Question Plateau: When You are Doing 100 Questions But Not Improving

You are doing the work. Thirty questions a night. Full mocks on weekends. Hundreds of questions logged.

But your score is not moving.

Why More Questions Is Not The Answer

The plateau does not happen because you are not doing enough. It happens because something is broken in how you are processing them. Candidates assume the fix is more volume. But the score stays flat because volume without reflection is just busywork.

How The Plateau Actually Breaks

When you get a question wrong, most candidates read the explanation once and move on. That is where the plateau begins. The explanation is where learning actually happens. If you skim it and keep going, you miss that moment entirely.

The fix is straightforward. Sit with each wrong answer. Ask yourself where your logic broke down, whether you did not know the rule or misapplied it to the scenario. Tag your mistakes by type. Over time, patterns emerge, and those patterns tell you exactly what to study next.

Then revisit. Each week, pull up the previous week's mistakes and try them again. A shrinking pile of unresolved errors is the only reliable sign you are actually improving.