I get that practice and being selective with which questions to answer is key, but I seem to always end up in one of 2 boats.
I am worrying about time and miss questions in the first passages
I run out of time and have to really rush the last passage.
When I do blind review, I get significantly higher on my scores, but I just don't how to train/practice this better. The videos are good and all, but my issue isn't really with the logic of the questions most of the time, it's more so pacing.
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hey I had the same issue with RC just a few months back when I really ramped up my studying for the august test and what I started doing was capping my time for each passage and the questions within it. I have time and a half so each passage should take me no longer than 13 minutes to get through with about 1.5 per question, and so if I found myself spending more than 1.5 minutes on a question I would take my best guess and come back to it if time permits. The thing that really helped me though was doing untimed drills and giving myself more time than I needed to find the correct answer but still giving myself a capped limit on how much time I could spend while still being able to prove each answer correct (like 20 minutes for example). And I would then get better and need less and less time after that. I hope you find this useful or it helps!
two things helped me improve my timing on RC: untimed drills and color-coded highlighting for questions. I did some untimed drills focusing on the hardest passages. I feel this helped improve my stamina and comprehension. I also decided to use the color green for anything in the passage that is mentioned in the questions. So I read the questions first, notice if they mention any topics (like a field of study, a name of a critic, an animal species, whatever), and then I highlight those things in green. I don't use the green for anything else, so this helps me find info faster.
@blueorbit2400 that's great advice. I've only ever read the full stimulus first while making my low res summary so this might be a game changed. My last RC section I missed like 4/5 "stated" questions bc I suck at finding them quickly