How it works
A focused way to prepare
Four things, repeated. The useful part is the second one, because it is the part most preparation leaves out.
Attempt, review, practise, check again
1 · Attempt
Answer, and say how sure you are
You pick an answer and record your confidence. On some questions you also choose which description of your reasoning is closest to what you did.
2 · Review
See the step worth changing
Not a restatement of the correct answer. The review points at the move that decided it, which is the part you can do differently next time.
3 · Practise
Work on that one thing
Practice is chosen around what the review found, so a session has a subject rather than being another undirected set of questions.
4 · Check again
Meet it again on a different question
A correction that works once may not have transferred. The same idea comes back later, somewhere else, which is where you find out.
What a review actually says
A council trialled a four-day week for six months. It reported that staff took fewer sick days over the period, and that output on measured tasks was unchanged.
Which statement is best supported by the passage?
- The shorter week improved staff health.
- Fewer sick days were recorded during the trial.
- Output fell because staff worked fewer hours.
- Other councils would see the same result. (the answer this candidate chose)
Which of these is closest to your reasoning?
It looked like the obvious conclusion from the result.
The passage reports one council over six months. D applies that to councils it never measured. One thing to check on the next question is whether the option stays inside the group the passage actually describes.
The answer was B. Being told so settles one question. The useful part is the last paragraph: a specific thing to check on the next question that looks like this one.
One attempt is one attempt, though. A single question cannot establish that you always do this, and Verantrix does not claim it does. A pattern needs several attempts before it is treated as a pattern, and until then the review stays about this question.
Where this fits
It is built to sit alongside whatever else you are doing. If a course or a tutor is working for you, keep them: this is aimed at the part that is usually missing, which is noticing that the same reasoning error keeps costing marks.
Training is where that work happens, and simulated exams are where you find out what survives a clock.