I'm consistently spending 2-3 more minutes on the reading and think the culprit is that I'll jot notes throughout the paragraph. Curious if anyone else starts writing their low res summary during the paragraph instead of after? It feels natural to me but think it's killing my timing.
@AndrewPhillips Yea, it's unlikely you'll have enough time to actually write out notes physically on paper. I recommend practicing this as a purely mental thing -- basically just taking ~5 seconds to recap the point / purpose of a paragraph before moving on to the next.
This was to be an untimed drill, focused on accuracy, not speed. How am I supposed to experience Blind Review where every question is flagged for BR? Only one of my answers was wrong, but as expected I "took too long" on all of them, so they're all circled. Should I really spend another half an hour on it? I ... I guess that's for me to decide ...
@ToweringTextbooks Though here's perhaps a more interesting and more useful question: how much should I worry about questions I get right on the first take and then get wrong on BR? On test day those won't matter. But I'm wondering about the logical harm I'm doing to myself by convincing myself that a [right] answer must be wrong.
@ToweringTextbooks If you do a drill untimed (and actually take it without caring about the time), then I would skip BR. BR is basically an opportunity for you to do the question untimed, so you already did it.
@ToweringTextbooks A follow up for myself and anyone else who might benefit from it: I was today-years-old when I learned that you can mouse over the little information (i) icon next to the circled question number and find out why the question is marked for BR (including whether you got it wrong, or whether you took a long time, or whether you changed your answer several times, or just left it flagged).
So I think my new personal plan for BR will be to re-attempt each BR-marked question, and then after choosing an answer make sure I didn't choose the same wrong answer as my actual take. If I did choose the same wrong answer, do it again.
@ToweringTextbooks You can also go into your settings and change it so that only questions you got wrong are flagged for BR! Just found that out last week and it's been a game-changer for me.
@Kevin_Lin Is there any way to ensure that the passages showing up on my drills are not the same passages that I already practiced with in the lessons?
@Apenzer We're working on a fix for this! Unfortunately right now I think you'll just want to complete those drills (even if just skipping past them) and create a new one.
@LizbethL I'm the same way, I understand what the question stem is asking for, but I always have trouble understanding the passage clearly, especially the wordy and confusing ones.
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12/14! 13/14 BR.... lets gooooo!
9/14
BR: 11/14
timing is still bad FAHHHHH
if you got the passage w 12 questions… group hug
How come I only had 12 questions? What are people talking about with 15 questions?
Do people get different passages?
You got 11/15 correct
13/13, this was the motivation I needed!
9/13 :( and BR 13/13 :) HOWEVER my timing is horrid :(((((((((
11/12 ayeee
14/15, i love spotlight passages
First 14/14! I'm making progress. RC has been kicking my ass, compared to LR.
Way over time, though. Not sure how to get that down - hoping it just comes with time and experience.
9/16 then 11/16
@JoshuaFedrick Same here!
I'm consistently spending 2-3 more minutes on the reading and think the culprit is that I'll jot notes throughout the paragraph. Curious if anyone else starts writing their low res summary during the paragraph instead of after? It feels natural to me but think it's killing my timing.
@AndrewPhillips Yea, it's unlikely you'll have enough time to actually write out notes physically on paper. I recommend practicing this as a purely mental thing -- basically just taking ~5 seconds to recap the point / purpose of a paragraph before moving on to the next.
RC used to feel like a black box to me. This series has been so helpful.
15/16, 4 min under time. But the question I missed I didn't flag, so I likely wouldn't have gotten it if I went back through and reviewed.
This was to be an untimed drill, focused on accuracy, not speed. How am I supposed to experience Blind Review where every question is flagged for BR? Only one of my answers was wrong, but as expected I "took too long" on all of them, so they're all circled. Should I really spend another half an hour on it? I ... I guess that's for me to decide ...
@ToweringTextbooks Though here's perhaps a more interesting and more useful question: how much should I worry about questions I get right on the first take and then get wrong on BR? On test day those won't matter. But I'm wondering about the logical harm I'm doing to myself by convincing myself that a [right] answer must be wrong.
@ToweringTextbooks If you do a drill untimed (and actually take it without caring about the time), then I would skip BR. BR is basically an opportunity for you to do the question untimed, so you already did it.
@ToweringTextbooks A follow up for myself and anyone else who might benefit from it: I was today-years-old when I learned that you can mouse over the little information (i) icon next to the circled question number and find out why the question is marked for BR (including whether you got it wrong, or whether you took a long time, or whether you changed your answer several times, or just left it flagged).
So I think my new personal plan for BR will be to re-attempt each BR-marked question, and then after choosing an answer make sure I didn't choose the same wrong answer as my actual take. If I did choose the same wrong answer, do it again.
@ToweringTextbooks You can also go into your settings and change it so that only questions you got wrong are flagged for BR! Just found that out last week and it's been a game-changer for me.
Are you guys focusing on accuracy or time right now?
@SophiaWood accuracy all the way
13/13 but over time
7/15 then 10/15.. I suck at RC clearly.
13/14 but my timing was HORRIBLE!!!!! If anyone has any time saving tips (besides more practice) please help a girl out :(
well shit
I had one passage be from the lesson I had already done (about Korean Americans and their workers union) and one new passage (about Homer)
@lindsayo A fix should be in within a week so that these drills don't pull from stuff you've seen before.
10/13... 13/13 in BR!
@Kevin_Lin Is there any way to ensure that the passages showing up on my drills are not the same passages that I already practiced with in the lessons?
@Apenzer We're working on a fix for this! Unfortunately right now I think you'll just want to complete those drills (even if just skipping past them) and create a new one.
@Kevin_Lin Ok, thank you!!
10/13, but 13/13 on BR. I spent way longer on the passages but it's definitely less time than I spent during the problem-analysis type passages.
8/13, getting better but still not great:( didn't do blind review but I should have
@IsabelleSantiago I got the exact same score.
Dude, I sucked at this Drill. Anyone else? I need to read the passage more thoroughly.
@LizbethL I'm the same way, I understand what the question stem is asking for, but I always have trouble understanding the passage clearly, especially the wordy and confusing ones.