For me parallel flaw/reasoning is one of my weakest question categories on the lsat not because I cannot solve them, I'm just very slow. I am so slow that when I encounter one on a section or preptest I am better off guessing and skipping rather than wasting the little time I have on it. When I do drills where I have unlimited time I think generally I get them right 80-90% of the time.
My current approach is to diagram the stimulus out on paper and then check each answer choice to see if it matches the structure and form of the stimulus. It's especially tricky for me when the form of the stimulus and correct AC are different because I have a hard time abstracting in my head.
I've been trying to improve by drilling more. I do something like 5 questions at a time medium to hardest difficulty with unlimited time. I think I've gotten better at getting these questions right, but not any better at improving my speed.
Does anyone have advice/tips?
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I think the key to speed on these is to be able to get rid of more 'obvious' wrong answers quickly and only actually check the 2-3 ACs that look most promising. If you can identify mismatches at a glance, you can strike out at least a couple answers on a very shallow dip-- for example, if the stimulus has specific language like "all," "most," etc., just scan for them and strike out ACs that don't have them