My overall study performance this week remained Medium (pretty poor). To be frank, I wasn’t able to study properly this time:
Target Schedule: Every day from 8:00 PM to 10:30 PM (2.5 hours)
Reality: Study time was irregular — some days 1 to 2 hours, some days a bit less, but whatever I studied during that time, I made sure to cover it properly with solid quality.
Exams & Advanced Math: I had a few exams lined up, so I had to temporarily put Advanced Math on hold.
Consistency & Discipline: I lacked consistency, my discipline slipped, and I couldn’t dedicate time to separate calculation practice.
The only silver lining was that whatever percentage concepts and questions I covered — including some really deep and conceptual problem types — I made sure to solve and understand them with total clarity.
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Here are a couple of conceptual questions I focused on this week using the Ratio & Base method:
Base Shift Concept: If salary A is 20% more than B, by what percentage is B’s salary less than A’s? (Understanding why the answer isn’t 20%, but 16.66%).
Successive Change: If the price of a ticket increases by 20% (1/5) and sales increase by 20% (1/5), what is the overall percentage change in revenue? (Using 5 to 6 twice to get 25 to 36, a 44% net increase).
Since the overall report turned out poor this week, I’ve created a Weekly Progress Sheet to keep myself accountable. Going forward, I will publish this tracker every week to share exactly when and how much I studied.
