"How many mocks?" is the wrong first question. The right one is: *how many reviewed mocks?* An unreviewed mock is a score with no lesson attached, and twenty of them teach less than six properly reviewed ones.
The honest numbers
For most aspirants over a two-to-three-month window:
- 8 to 12 full timed papers is the productive ceiling.
- One full paper every two to three days — daily full papers buy familiarity at the price of review time and sleep.
- Below six, the interface and pacing never become automatic. Above fifteen, scores plateau and anxiety rises.
These are full papers. Subject drills and section practice sit outside this count and happen daily.
The review half of every attempt
Budget review time equal to half the paper's duration, immediately after submitting:
- Sort every lost mark: concept gap, process slip, or time pressure.
- Note which *units* bled marks, not just which questions.
- Write the two changes you will make in the next paper. Two, not ten.
The result screen on this platform shows section-wise accuracy, time spent and the ranked position, and every attempt is autosaved — so the review data is there the moment you submit.
Spacing beats stacking
Two papers with an error-log review between them beat three back-to-back papers. The review changes what you practise next; stacking mocks just repeats the same mistakes at the same speed. If you cannot say what the last paper changed, you are grinding, not practising.
A simple schedule
- Weeks 1–4: two full papers per week across different subjects, plus daily short drills.
- Weeks 5–8: three papers per week in exam-time slots, error log between each.
- Final two weeks: two papers, then stop adding. Re-read the log instead.
Start from the paper library — filter by subject and year, attempt any previous-year shift under real rules, and let the leaderboards show where each first attempt stands. The scoring and timing rules are the ones explained on the exam pattern page.