Diagnose
Start with mixed questions. Mark each miss as a concept, setup, algebra, or time-management error.
Prepare for the exam, not just the homework: build accuracy under time pressure, review mistakes by cause, and use targeted practice to recover points.
An exam plan connects evidence from practice to the next study decision. Diagnosis shows the gap, priorities set the order, simulation tests performance, and correction makes the learning durable.
Start with mixed questions. Mark each miss as a concept, setup, algebra, or time-management error.
Work first on high-frequency skills where a small improvement can recover several points.
Practice complete sections with the same calculator and time constraints as the real assessment.
Redo every missed question from a blank page, then explain why the corrected method works.
Six to eight weeks for a full course, and the first week should be diagnosis rather than revision. You cannot prioritise what you have not measured, and most people revise what they already know because it feels productive.
Working under the real conditions, then reviewing by error type rather than by total score. Sort every mistake into definition, setup, calculation, interpretation or timing, and revise the category that appears most, not the topic that feels hardest.
By topic until you can complete a method unprompted, then by paper. Papers are for practising selection and timing, and they waste time if the underlying method is not there yet.