I've recently hit a plateau in my PTs. In the past month, I have gotten 163-160-162-161 with blind reviews in the low to mid 170s. I'm anywhere from -3 to -6 in LR with my typical section being -5. RC is all over the place but I see myself improving a lot (even if it's not translating to PTs yet). I feel like I need to switch up the way I'm studying in LR. I struggle the most with flaw questions and questions with heavy conditional reasoning. Under timed conditions, I make small mistakes in my diagrams and chains that cause me to get the question wrong. Untimed I feel fine. Does anyone have any tips to grab a few more points? I'm taking October and November and my goal score is a 165+ to be a competitive applicant at my top schools (I'm a splitter). Any advice is very much appreciated!
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I think more of what you're doing will help! I had (still have lol) the same issues of hesitation and what helped for me was to physically write down a plan of attack for the questions that stumped me. I liked to go through the 7sage curriculum and look at the lessons for the question type and base my strategies off of that. Having an "actual" thought-out plan of attack vs just figuring it out helped a lot. Best of luck <3
@isojess1 I'm going to work on that this week! I appreciate your response :)
I have the same problem, following!