what I learned from having my entire career ruined by one Transitions question...

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Last night I did a livestream on the second channel.

Like usual, I did "SAT questions until I get one wrong."

Ultimately, I lost on a hard Transitions question.

It was a really niche question, where the word "thus" worked, but the sentence right BEFORE the blank was not a clean cause-and-effect, while the rest of the passage was. Therefore, "thus" or "nevertheless" could have both technically worked, and I (and the chat) chose wrong.

Basically, it was weird.

And the question made me realize something:

This was a concept you NEVER could possibly understand from a YouTube video.

(You probably didn't even understand my explanation of it above lol.)

This was a mistake you could ONLY understand by actually GETTING A QUESTION WRONG and then examining it afterward.

(Like I did lol.)

It's just too ultra-specific and weird for someone to ever understand without trying it.

These are two underrated benefits from doing practice questions:

1) You realize things you NEVER wouldn't learned otherwise

2) When you get questions wrong, the PAIN of missing the questions is actual encouragement to improve

I (and the chat) experienced both of these last night. And you can experience it EVERY time you do practice questions.

So, the next time you're doing questions on a website like Aniko, remember that this is the goal: