Identify where you are losing marks
Telling every student to solve the same number of questions or take the same number of exams is not enough. Start by identifying the subjects and question types that cause difficulty in your current TYT practice exams. Knowledge gaps, difficulty constructing a solution and running out of time need different responses.
Place your recent results side by side. Do unanswered questions cluster around one topic, or are calculation errors affecting questions you understand? Choose priorities based on the cause of mistakes as well as the subject with the lowest result.
Use a cycle for basic knowledge gaps
Choose a topic, study it briefly and explain the steps of a worked example in your own words. Then try new questions without checking the solution. If you cannot continue, write down the step where you got stuck rather than immediately restarting the entire lesson video.
For a word problem, separating the information given from what you need to find may help you build the equation. If the equation is correct but the result is wrong, review the calculation steps. This distinction avoids grouping every difficulty under “I cannot solve problems.”
Separate timing practice from learning a topic
Constantly timing a topic you have not yet learned can make it harder to identify the missing knowledge. First find examples you can solve independently. Then use short timed sets to examine where you spend time.
In full practice exams, test small changes such as section order or leaving a difficult question for later. Someone else’s preferred order may not work the same way for you. After the exam, try unfinished questions without time pressure to separate timing effects from knowledge gaps.
A shared principle across subjects
Although Turkish, maths, social sciences and science have different content, all need a check after studying. Misreading an instruction in Turkish is different from struggling to interpret the passage. Confusing a scientific concept is also different from failing to use information given in the question.
Include a few priority gaps, targeted question practice and a later check in your weekly plan. At the next exam, review the targeted error type as well as the total score. No fixed increase within a fixed time can be promised; update the plan using the results you observe.
An example weekly goal
You might select one basic maths topic and one error type in Turkish. Identify the gaps in the first session, work on fresh questions in the next and complete a short review at the end of the week. Adapt this example to your results. If the scope is too large, narrow it rather than abandoning the entire plan.
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