Depends on how much time you have to study. I have been studying for 6 months for 1-2 hours per day and I'm in the high 160s. If you study 8 hours a hour, maybe you could increase your score faster. 170s may be unrealistic for a month, but if you push back your test date to August, it may be possible. Every point matters in terms of scholarship money, so I would always always recommend improving your score even if it means pushing back your test date.
I noticed your RC is worse than LR. I had this problem until I started doing prioritized untimed RCs, now I am at -4 to -5 per section and steadily improving. It really helps to do a one sentence summary for each paragraph, identify the overall main idea and purpose of each passage, identity the tone and perspectives, etc. Read up on the lessons in 7Sage, they really helped. Good luck!!
I'm sorry but it's incredibly unrealistic to improve an average of 10-15 points in that time frame short of something miraculous. Maybe you'll have a giant break through or you having amazing endurance and time to study but I think you're setting yourself up for disappointment if that's your target.
Getting this many questions wrong and having time issues points to at least a significant problem in your ability to quickly and efficiently translate the stimulus. You likely have other areas you can work on but it's unreasonable to focus on specifics when you need to improve on the fundamentals that you need so you can properly go through the answer choices.
I think committing a few study sessions to just translation drills (reading the stim, translating it into your own words, and then having half an idea of what your prephrase could be). You don't always need a prephrase when you actually take the test and do drills but it's a good practice to improve your ability to respond to what the question is going to be asking. After that, see how that's impacted your ability and decide if you should keep doing translation drills or move onto other aspects.
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Depends on how much time you have to study. I have been studying for 6 months for 1-2 hours per day and I'm in the high 160s. If you study 8 hours a hour, maybe you could increase your score faster. 170s may be unrealistic for a month, but if you push back your test date to August, it may be possible. Every point matters in terms of scholarship money, so I would always always recommend improving your score even if it means pushing back your test date.
I noticed your RC is worse than LR. I had this problem until I started doing prioritized untimed RCs, now I am at -4 to -5 per section and steadily improving. It really helps to do a one sentence summary for each paragraph, identify the overall main idea and purpose of each passage, identity the tone and perspectives, etc. Read up on the lessons in 7Sage, they really helped. Good luck!!
I'm sorry but it's incredibly unrealistic to improve an average of 10-15 points in that time frame short of something miraculous. Maybe you'll have a giant break through or you having amazing endurance and time to study but I think you're setting yourself up for disappointment if that's your target.
Getting this many questions wrong and having time issues points to at least a significant problem in your ability to quickly and efficiently translate the stimulus. You likely have other areas you can work on but it's unreasonable to focus on specifics when you need to improve on the fundamentals that you need so you can properly go through the answer choices.
I think committing a few study sessions to just translation drills (reading the stim, translating it into your own words, and then having half an idea of what your prephrase could be). You don't always need a prephrase when you actually take the test and do drills but it's a good practice to improve your ability to respond to what the question is going to be asking. After that, see how that's impacted your ability and decide if you should keep doing translation drills or move onto other aspects.