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

You may be doing thirty questions a night and full mocks at the weekend, with hundreds of questions done in total. But your score is not moving.

Why more questions is not the answer

The problem is usually not that you are not doing enough. It is how you are going through the questions. It is natural to think the answer is to do more. But if you are not reflecting on what you got wrong, doing more questions will not move your score much.

How to get past it

When you get a question wrong, it is easy to read the explanation once and move on. But the explanation is where you actually learn. Spend time on each question you got wrong, ask yourself why, and go back to those questions regularly. I explain how I tracked mine in How to Build Your Wrong Questions Bank.