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Will my math score increase just by continually taking the practice tests and "real tests" ?
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No.
The idea behind taking practice tests is not to diagnose yourself (although that is a useful boon), but to learn from your mistakes. Granted, those last problems are the hardest. Yet, that should in no way mitigate the value of thoroughly going through them and understanding why you got each one wrong. Go through it thoroughly enough so that if you were to change every number in the problem, you could solve it in 30 seconds.
As you begin to get better at solving math problems you'll notice your error pattern will shift from a lack of knowledge to an abundance of mistakes. Maybe you'll distribute wrong, or solve for the wrong variable, or confuse radius and diameter. Then, you work on your strategy, using prep books--I recommend Rocket Review, others have recommended Grubers.
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