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Learning goal: make every mistake pay you back by logging it the way a director reviews dailies.
On a film set, the crew watches the day's footage every night. Not to feel bad about the bad takes, but to make tomorrow's takes better. Your misses are footage. This log is the screening room.
The habit
Within 48 hours of any practice, review every question you missed or guessed on. Misses from a mini assessment land in the table below on their own; name why you missed each one and the play you'll run next time. For misses outside a mini assessment, like an official Bluebook test, keep the same habit in your notebook. The log only works if every miss gets a reason, including the embarrassing ones. Especially the embarrassing ones.
The log
Name the miss
In the "why I missed it" column, use one of these five categories. Naming the miss is half of fixing it.
- Rushed it. You knew how, but you moved too fast. Fix: the two-pass play.
- Misread it. You solved a different question than the one asked. Fix: mark what the question asks before you start.
- Concept gap. You genuinely did not know the material yet. Fix: flag it for a lesson day, and tell your coach.
- Careless slip. Right method, one small arithmetic or copying error. Fix: slow down on the last step and check with Desmos.
- Trap answer. You picked the choice designed to look right. Fix: prove it on screen before you commit.
Once a week, look for repeats. Two "concept gap" rows on the same topic is not a failure, it is a finding. Bring it to your coach and it becomes next week's lesson.