① Where my mind veered
When you read the stem, which way did your reasoning go - and why? This tells you whether you're fragmented in your FACTS or your UNDERSTANDING.
Content gapI never truly learned this
Missed the discriminatorKnew the facts, didn't spot the pivot
Fell for the distractorTempting wrong answer pulled me
Misread / processRushed, careless, time
Knew it, second-guessedTalked myself out of it
BlankedCouldn't retrieve under pressure
② The ONE fault
Reduce it to a single sentence - the one error in your understanding.
③ The pivot - never again
The single discriminator + the mechanism that locks it. This is what you carry into the next question.