It dawned on me in the last few weeks of this semester what was going wrong with the stat class. The formulas are easy to solve, so chapter by chapter, so I had no problem; until the tests. When it came time to apply what I had learned in a cumulative format, I was lost. I panicked.
Reading a problem during a long math test and not having any idea where to start is a singularly unsettling feeling.
Next stat class (next semester), I have to spend the time thinking and less time solving. When Bloom came up with the six levels of behavior in learning, he determined that most of the time we are tested only at the first level, where recall is the most important skill. It's much easier to take these tests when I am at a higher level.
When I was studying Japanese, I wrote Kanji over and over. I wrote them so much I can remember a great deal of it, even today. I wrote them until they were internalized. I allocated enough time to fully synthesize them. My stat class, I just tried to get the right answers, and move on.