10/15 then 14/15 - for passage two, I really needed to read the question more closely because I chose the answers that related to the entire passage rather than the specific paragraph like the question was asking
I need to work on my timing immensely but at least I got all but one right when I didn't think about timing. Right now, it's taking me nearly twice as long to answer the questions. One thing at a time!
#help For some reason, I got a critique passage and a prob-analysis passage on this set. They threw me for a loop at first bc I was so confused on how they were phenomenon hypothesis passages. How do I make sure I actually get a phen-hypo drill?
12/13 on 2 five star difficulty passages - not bad by any means. Timing is going to be tough. I keep trying to apply the reading strategies we've learned but I do go slower on the reading than I (and 7Sage, apparently) would like.
6/13 and then 11/13, like what is it??? I feel that when I read faster and don't take as long I might be able to get most accurate answers than if I take my sweet time to think about it
i felt incredibly confident during these two passages, when I got to blind review 11/13 questions were circled and I felt really defeated thinking that meant I got almost all of the questions wrong. After I pressed submit I saw that I got 8/13 questions right the first time!! I don't know all the reasonings for why 7Sage chooses questions for blind review but that really made me second guess myself. I changed almost all of my answers even though I had originally got them correct. Is there a way to change the settings for blind review? I don't want this to happen again, or I'll probably stop using blind review.
@IsabelleSantiago You can change BR settings in Settings -> Preferences.
I recommend against turning the settings so that only incorrect is marked for BR. If you do that, then you'll know that everything recommended for BR is wrong, and you'll just know you should change your answers for those even if you don't really understand what's wrong with the one you chose.
I think the better approach is to recognize that just because something is recommended for BR doesn't mean that it's wrong. So you don't need to change your answer just because it's recommended for BR.
@Kevin_Lin I switched my blind review so it only shows me the questions I got wrong. Once I see that I missed a question, I go back and carefully analyze all of the answer choices, then choose the one I believe must be correct. During the review, I read through the explanations to understand why the option I selected was incorrect. I also study the explanation for the correct answer and make sure it aligns with the reasoning that led me to choose it, so I can clearly connect the logic behind the right choice. Am i wrong for doing this?
@Sabercat48 I don't think there's anything wrong with this in the sense that this is a reasonable approach to studying and using your time efficiently. Many people can usefully study even without doing BR; they just look at what they got wrong and try to understand the explanation for why it's wrong and how they should have been thinking.
But the BR score that results from this kind of review is likely going to be inflated, because often when you get something wrong, you were only considering one other potential answer, which is the correct one. So knowing that what you picked is wrong can help you correct that question in BR, even if you never would have changed your answer had you reviewed it without knowing that it was wrong. This means the BR score wouldn't really reflect your current untimed potential in the same way that a totally blind BR would. But as long as you recognize this, there's nothing wrong with doing this more limited type of review.
Phew, now that I was not expecting. Got not one, but TWO level five difficulty passages, one on Maize and another on the Slave Trade and oof, that was some great practice. I was 5m over on the slave trade one, and 2m over on the Maize one, BUT I only missed one question total, literally the last question on the Maize one. Overall, super happy with that. More so because I actually understood WHY they were right. Definitely felt good doing.
@Gregmjr Interesting observation! My goal score is a 175 and both of my suggested passages are 5 star passages with above 3 star questions. I also have been acing all the other sections so far so maybe that is a part of it. Didn't do as hot on this one though...
@Gregmjr Agreed. I was also confused because both passages were 5 star and I only had 13 total questions where some people say 15 or another number. Only 4 questions were level 3 with all other questions being 4 or 5! Not only did this absolutely crush me (I am exhausted), but I took much longer than they wanted me to across the board. I was 12 total minutes over time in the first passage (reading+questions) and 8 minutes over on passage 2 (reading+ questions).
Now, I wasn't necessarily trying to make time and my biggest issue with RC is already time, but THIS WAS VERY HARD. Everyone's comments here are confusing me!
I thought nothing could be worse than LR, but I was sadly mistaken. Spent 26min on a lvl 4 passage, got 4/8, then 10min on a lvl3 passage and got 4/5. I fear I'm not cut out for this :(
It's like I read the lvl 4 passage and think I understand it, then the questions are just about the most absurd parts of it and are extremely tricky!! Do I not know english or is this test just evil?
@calliekoskovich If you hover over the timing for a passage, it shows you the breakdown of how much time spent reading vs answering questions. Not sure if that's what you meant...
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10/15 then 14/15 - for passage two, I really needed to read the question more closely because I chose the answers that related to the entire passage rather than the specific paragraph like the question was asking
I need to work on my timing immensely but at least I got all but one right when I didn't think about timing. Right now, it's taking me nearly twice as long to answer the questions. One thing at a time!
6/12 then 10/12 feeling slightly better
Are you guys worrying about time yet? I worried about time and I got a 6/12… did the BR at a slower pace and got a 10/12
#help For some reason, I got a critique passage and a prob-analysis passage on this set. They threw me for a loop at first bc I was so confused on how they were phenomenon hypothesis passages. How do I make sure I actually get a phen-hypo drill?
@dianatilapia2 This is weird -- I'll look into this.
@Kevin_Lin Hi, just wanted to report that I experienced something similar! I got 2 CritDeb passages instead of PhenHyp passages
I got every single question for the second passage wrong..
14/14 I'm him
9/14 then 11/14.... okay ;-; but second passage was horrendous 5 difficulty took me FOREVER
12/13 on 2 five star difficulty passages - not bad by any means. Timing is going to be tough. I keep trying to apply the reading strategies we've learned but I do go slower on the reading than I (and 7Sage, apparently) would like.
@JoeMicsan oh yeah.. 10/13 for me but suuuppeerr slow. Whatever your brain is doing, I need to do too!
6/13 and then 11/13, like what is it??? I feel that when I read faster and don't take as long I might be able to get most accurate answers than if I take my sweet time to think about it
11/15... not bad...
i felt incredibly confident during these two passages, when I got to blind review 11/13 questions were circled and I felt really defeated thinking that meant I got almost all of the questions wrong. After I pressed submit I saw that I got 8/13 questions right the first time!! I don't know all the reasonings for why 7Sage chooses questions for blind review but that really made me second guess myself. I changed almost all of my answers even though I had originally got them correct. Is there a way to change the settings for blind review? I don't want this to happen again, or I'll probably stop using blind review.
@IsabelleSantiago You can change BR settings in Settings -> Preferences.
I recommend against turning the settings so that only incorrect is marked for BR. If you do that, then you'll know that everything recommended for BR is wrong, and you'll just know you should change your answers for those even if you don't really understand what's wrong with the one you chose.
I think the better approach is to recognize that just because something is recommended for BR doesn't mean that it's wrong. So you don't need to change your answer just because it's recommended for BR.
@Kevin_Lin I switched my blind review so it only shows me the questions I got wrong. Once I see that I missed a question, I go back and carefully analyze all of the answer choices, then choose the one I believe must be correct. During the review, I read through the explanations to understand why the option I selected was incorrect. I also study the explanation for the correct answer and make sure it aligns with the reasoning that led me to choose it, so I can clearly connect the logic behind the right choice. Am i wrong for doing this?
@Sabercat48 I don't think there's anything wrong with this in the sense that this is a reasonable approach to studying and using your time efficiently. Many people can usefully study even without doing BR; they just look at what they got wrong and try to understand the explanation for why it's wrong and how they should have been thinking.
But the BR score that results from this kind of review is likely going to be inflated, because often when you get something wrong, you were only considering one other potential answer, which is the correct one. So knowing that what you picked is wrong can help you correct that question in BR, even if you never would have changed your answer had you reviewed it without knowing that it was wrong. This means the BR score wouldn't really reflect your current untimed potential in the same way that a totally blind BR would. But as long as you recognize this, there's nothing wrong with doing this more limited type of review.
@Kevin_Lin I understand. Thank you!!
Phew, now that I was not expecting. Got not one, but TWO level five difficulty passages, one on Maize and another on the Slave Trade and oof, that was some great practice. I was 5m over on the slave trade one, and 2m over on the Maize one, BUT I only missed one question total, literally the last question on the Maize one. Overall, super happy with that. More so because I actually understood WHY they were right. Definitely felt good doing.
@JohnBlessing Dang! I want to be like you when I grow up!
Did worse on the level one difficulty passage than I did on the level four difficulty passage.... Make it make sense :(
I feel like 7sage adjusts the difficulty of the questions based on goal score.
I am seeing some commentary on here for 1 and 3 star questions.
I had 2 and above with mostly 3 to 5 star questions.
Is this the case for others?
@Gregmjr Interesting observation! My goal score is a 175 and both of my suggested passages are 5 star passages with above 3 star questions. I also have been acing all the other sections so far so maybe that is a part of it. Didn't do as hot on this one though...
@Gregmjr I think they do as well. I've only gotten 5 star passages so far.
@Gregmjr Agreed. I was also confused because both passages were 5 star and I only had 13 total questions where some people say 15 or another number. Only 4 questions were level 3 with all other questions being 4 or 5! Not only did this absolutely crush me (I am exhausted), but I took much longer than they wanted me to across the board. I was 12 total minutes over time in the first passage (reading+questions) and 8 minutes over on passage 2 (reading+ questions).
Now, I wasn't necessarily trying to make time and my biggest issue with RC is already time, but THIS WAS VERY HARD. Everyone's comments here are confusing me!
Passage one was so challenging, or maybe science in general is hard🥲
9/15 arghhh
I thought nothing could be worse than LR, but I was sadly mistaken. Spent 26min on a lvl 4 passage, got 4/8, then 10min on a lvl3 passage and got 4/5. I fear I'm not cut out for this :(
It's like I read the lvl 4 passage and think I understand it, then the questions are just about the most absurd parts of it and are extremely tricky!! Do I not know english or is this test just evil?
I'm really worried about RC now. Got 10/13 on level 4 passages. I hope practice helps me improve in RC.
Does 7 Sage adjust the question level based on what your goal score is? I had all 3 star or above questions even though I got 10/13
@HilarySackor same
11/11 but the difficulty was only level 1 and 3 so not completely sure of my improvement yet
Anddd I am humbled.
12/13 again. there's always one.
12/14, my best do far. Im happy with the little progress I have made so far
Is there a way to see our total time vs. total goal time for a passage/question set?
@calliekoskovich If you hover over the timing for a passage, it shows you the breakdown of how much time spent reading vs answering questions. Not sure if that's what you meant...