How to trust your brain over your instinct?

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<p>I’ve done three practice tests in the princeton review.</p>

<p>Every time so far, the mistakes I make tend to be ones I saw coming.
For example, on CR, I’ll have two answers left, see one answer which is in the passage and one which matches the question better, and then pick the one which matches the question instead of going for the facts, because they seem too obvious or too insignificant to the whole passage. I can’t seem to get above 750 because of that.</p>

<p>How do I stop choosing the answer I want it to be?</p>

<p>On maths, the only mistakes I make are just careless, seeing what I want to see when I check my answer.</p>

<p>When it comes to words, and you have narrowed it down to two answers: one which you know the meaning of, which isn’t exactly what you are looking for, but in that direction, or the one you don’t know and could mean the opposite for all you know?</p>

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<p>By practice. Ignore your inner voice and just choose. The more correct answers you will get, the more confident you will get and have no doubts. I had this when I just started preparing. As the time went by, I had less and less intuition vs logic fights.</p>

<p>Math… You have to train yourself to be more attentive. Write every single calculation you do. Underline the most important words in the questions. Always look back to them after you solve the problem.</p>