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Looking for tips regarding a significant area holding me back. I feel like I have a pretty good understanding of Conditional Reasoning, and when I drill questions untimed or on Blind Review I almost always get 100%. Then in timed conditions, I can't achieve even close to those results. I feel like the only way I can answer these questions is with an abundance of time. What has worked for people in this situation? I usually diagram, but again--that leaves even less time. Would love any and all tips.
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It might be time to practice these questions without diagramming on paper (visualize the diagram in your mind). For some perspective, a high scorer trained in diagramming likely diagrams only 1 or 2 questions on a section. These are ones with multiple conditionals and may require doing a contrapositive in order to connect conditionals together. But for most other conditional based questions, the structure is basic enough that you can see it in your mind with enough practice. For example:
"If A, then B. But B is not true."
Can you understand that the inference is "A is not true" without needing to draw anything out?
"If X, then Y. Therefore, X is not true."
Can you see that the missing assumption is "Y is not true" without needing to draw anything out?
Working with these basic structures purely in your mind is likely going to help you go faster on these questions.