Self-study
I've been taking practice tests every week for the past 6 weeks or so, and timing has been the one constant issue I've not been able to fix. This week i tried taking 2 LR sections backwards (starting with the final question and ending with the first.) my logic was that since the second half is hardest, i can dedicate more time to those questions and comfortably rush through the second half, as opposed to having to rush thru the harder second half. I scored surprisingly well using this method, and I did not struggle with time, I was able to answer each question confidently. However, I'm unsure if this method is actually helping or if I'm just getting better at time management. Anyone have any thoughts/ experience with this? pls lmk, taking the test in june!
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tried this, didn't work for me. I think it didn't because you assume that all the questions toward the end are hard, but that's not the case - some are easy. so you overanalyze, spend a lot of time, which cuts into your time for questions 1-18. and there are a good number of hard questions sprinkled in from 9-17. a better approach, for me at least, is to zoom through questions 1-10. I try to finish them in under 7 minutes. I predict the answer, if I see it, I pick it, flag it, and move on without reviewing the other AC's. that leaves you 28 minutes to do the remaining 16 questions which will likely be harder. you'll finish with 5 minutes left on clock, and then you can go back & review all your flags to make sure your predictions actually led to the best answer for the question.
If it works for you it might be worth doing, the problems with this strategy is you might eat up a lot of your time working on harder questions that you still are likely to get wrong, whereas if you did the easy ones first you can get a lot of free points. If you spend 10 minutes on 4 hard questions and thereby don't have enough time to adequately solve 10 other easy questions, it's not worth it. Also, by jumping into harder questions right away you forego a "warmup" to get into logic thinking mode. It might be worth doing questions 1-5 then 16-25 then the middle questions. But do whatever you find to be best ofc.