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Do you use your pre-phase to choose a correct answer or use it to get rid of wrong answers? Or a combination of both? Trying to find a new strategy for choosing LR question
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Do you use your pre-phase to choose a correct answer or use it to get rid of wrong answers? Or a combination of both? Trying to find a new strategy for choosing LR question
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I'm going to say that I was "pre-phrasing" after watching webinars on here about it, and I then I got a tutor and we threw that strategy completely out the window. His logic was to use the answer choices as a guide and help the test work to my advantage. I found that pre-phrasing often led me to a red-herring answer or messed me up. This may be an unpopular opinion on here, but that is my 2 cents. Best of luck! Hope you find the strategy that works for you!
I was going through a weird pre-phrase kind testing phase a couple weeks ago, and practicing pre-phrasing by covering the answers and just looking at the stimulus is a really good way to expand your knowledge because you're taking away the crutches of wrong answer choices to help guide you. But pre-phrasing for every single question, I found, doesn't work because test-writers have found ways to exploit that, and they're very good at hiding the right answer by obscuring it or giving something that's a little more creative. What @eugenewrotethis726 says above is pretty much what most people end up doing, though getting to that point requires kind of practicing pre-phrasing/expanding your argument evaluation knowledge, and then moving into a more flexible version of pre-phrasing, where you're not so much pre-phrasing but just so good at understanding the argument that the right answer or potential right answer jumps out at you.
Both. It also depends on the question type. For example, SA has a very specific answer that it can be, so once I've solved the puzzle I go on hunt mode and just look for that answer. Obviously you can't do that for strengthen/weaken or PSA, where the answer could be a range of things. With those, I make my prediction loose and say something in my head like, "I'm looking for something kinda like this." So when I go to the answers, I'm both looking for something like that (loosely, particularly for hard strengthen/weaken) and also eliminating answers that are out of my scope.