You finished the practice test, checked the score, felt either smug or doomed, and closed the PDF. Congratulations — you did the part that doesn't raise your grade. The score is a weather report. What you do in the next hour is the climate change.

Sort every miss into one of three buckets

Not all wrong answers are equal, and they don't get the same fix.

Knowledge gap — you didn't know it. The fix is relearning the concept, then a new question to prove the patch holds.

Process error — you knew it but misread, mis-bubbled, rushed, or skipped a step. The fix is procedural: slower reading, a verification habit, a checklist — not more content review.

Cold miss — you knew it, read it right, and still couldn't produce it under pressure. That's a retrieval failure, and it needs timed re-testing under real pressure, not rereading.

The sixty-minute review protocol

The hour, mapped

What a converted miss actually looks like

The conversion step is where most reviews quietly die — reading the right answer feels like repair, but nothing changed. A converted miss is a question you wrote that would have caught you. If the equilibrium miss was a forgotten squared coefficient, the prompt isn't "review equilibrium" — it's "calculate K when the product coefficient doubles," a new item that forces the same move. If the miss was procedural — misreading a multi-part question — the artifact is a ritual: "underline what the question actually asked before answering." If it was a cold miss, the artifact is the same question again, under a timer, in two days. Three buckets, three different artifacts: a new stem, a ritual, or a scheduled rep. The score can't tell you which; the sorting does — and the accumulating list doubles as a running error log that maps your weak areas. By the third practice test, that log is also how you diagnose what to study first in the final stretch.

LearnX handles the bookkeeping half of this loop: after a session inside an Exam Sprint, your misses are already logged, regenerated as fresh practice questions in your Study Units, and scheduled for spaced review — so your hour goes to the repair, not the paperwork.