Hello! Just wondering if I could get advice from any instructors or high-scorers on how to become better at skipping a question and moving on? Is there a sort of confidence drill that I can do to help build that habit? Over the past few tests, I've noticed a pattern of freezing early in an LR section and spending 4+ minutes on one level 2-3 question and spending 20+ minutes on Passages 1 and 2 on RC. As you can imagine, I'm burning through a lot of time in the beginning/middle of sections, and it's costing me quite a bit of time and points towards the end.

Sometimes I get stuck on a question because of two tricky contenders, but most of the time it's because I know I can figure it out but I panic and start jumbling up my diagrams and refuse to move on from the question. I know that I should just flag it and come back to it, but I don't trust myself to have enough time!

This hasn't always been an issue for me, but I think I recently slipped into a very bad habit of needing to be 100% confident of every correct answer before moving on. How do I learn to trust 70-80% confidence on an answer?

Thanks in advance!

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  • DaliaGolovco Independent Tutor
    41 mins ago

    Sometimes you just need to revisit a question with fresh eyes! Especially if it's one you know you can solve, allow yourself to take a break from it and trust that it will be faster to come back later. Practice doing this with timed drills and sections, until you feel confident enough to do the same on PTs. Good luck :)

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    17 mins ago

    @DaliaGolovco Ahh thank you! Will try that

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