Self-study
I started studying with the core curriculum 2-ish weeks ago and wanted to take a PT to see if I made any progress compared to my diagnostic. The 7sage explanations have been super helpful. Although progress early on is encouraging, I'm ultimately aiming for a mid-170s score, so please share any tips!
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congrats! prepare for your score expectations to go through the roof now. as a tip I'd say, at this point you are missing so few questions a test that it may be hard to analyze trends on certain question types you're missing based on a single test. compare over many tests instead, and then drill that question type (hard questions) and analyze every question you get wrong. if you aren't already, paraphrase before you look at the answer choices by identifying the assumption the author makes in the text. that alone made my score jump several points because I stopped falling for trap answers b/c I knew what I was looking for. 7sage's stimulus analysis is really helpful in this regard because of their section on 'notable assumptions'. sometimes after a section/test I go through every stimulus to check whether the assumption I identified matched theirs, & if they picked up on something I missed.
& lastly don't get discouraged if you have score swings (I used to but had to work myself out of that). as long as my average score is going up, I've grown to be OK w that instead of aiming for the same number on every exam.
@Marcus91 thank you so much! I appreciate it :)