I'm going to critique this on a page by page basis:
I can see you've been doing the exercises digitally, while that's allowed, I feel like you would find it far more beneficial and actually easier doing them on paper.
Super-imposed lines
For the most part on the initial superimposed lines it looks pretty good. The fraying is only on one end for almost all the lines except for one. Remember fraying on both ends is a sign you aren't taking enough time to position your pen correctly while fraying on one end (the one your line finishes on) is perfectly fine and will improve over time. Your lines do seem to be arcing a little bit though. This might happen because you are not mostly using the shoulder pivot. But
it can also happen when using the shoulder and in this case it can be fixed by trying to arch consciously to the opposite direction.
Ghosted Planes
Your lines aren't wobbling, they are pretty smooth. Exercises like these you are going to want to be using as a warm up for when you do other more difficult and complex exercises throughout draw-a-box so you will get better over time with hitting both points more consistently.
Ellipses
The overall shape of each ellipse looks pretty good, its something people can struggle with but you seemed to have got it down. However, you do really want to be touching the sides, having the ellipses touch the sides of the space they fit in. You seem to be having just a little bit of trouble with your smaller ellipses, It looks like you might have been rushing them just a bit. Try to keep up your effort with these ellipses too, trying to be just as confident with your lines - ghosting as many times as you need - the same rules apply for these as the bigger ellipses.
Ellipses in planes
The general shape of most of your ellipses look pretty good here. The objective of the exercise is to touch the sides of the shape, not distorted to fit the shape (not an egg), but an ellipse that touches the sides of the plane. Your ellipses do seem to be pretty ellipse shaped only a few distorted ellipses, but most of the time they don't touch the sides.
Funnels
You want all you ellipses to be touching each other and on one of your funnels they aren't aligned. That line that you draw down the middle of each funnel should be able to divide each ellipse symmetrically.
Two Point Perspective
Not much to say on this, looks fine, can't really improve on this one unless you misunderstood something but you seem to understand the idea.
Rough Perspective
You lines seem both slightly better and slightly worse here. I can see a little bit of a wobble to your lines but a lot of them have lost the arc so that's good keep going. You don't hit both points when ghosting but that'll improve its completely normal. You also seem to be getting pretty close to the point so well done!
Rotated Boxes
Looks great, not perfect but really good for a beginner. You'll see after you do the 250 box challenge you'll improve loads on this and you'll get more instructions on how to do this better.
Organic Perspective
Your definitely overlapping which is important. Looks good!
Next Steps:
I'm marking this listen complete. I think you should move on to the 250 box challenge. It'll give you tons of practice drawing boxes and improving your line quality. Along with this like I said before do exercises like the superimposed and ellipses in ghosted planes consistently to improve on the stuff mentioned.
A lot of my students use these. The last time I used them was when I was in high school, and at the time I felt that they dried out pretty quickly, though I may have simply been mishandling them. As with all pens, make sure you're capping them when they're not in use, and try not to apply too much pressure. You really only need to be touching the page, not mashing your pen into it.
On the flipside, they tend to be on the cheaper side of things, so if you're just getting started (beginners tend to have poor pressure control), you're probably going to destroy a few pens - going cheaper in that case is not a bad idea.
In terms of line weight, the sizes are pretty weird. 08 corresponds to 0.5mm, which is what I recommend for the drawabox lessons, whereas 05 corresponds to 0.45mm, which is pretty close and can also be used.
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