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.
@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.
@JuliaS. The drills in these lessons are just pulled randomly from the appropriately-tagged passages available from your drill pool. So that's why different people see different passages.
If you do "Smart drills" or drills created through your Study Plan practice blocks, those are tailored based on LR/RC accuracy over a certain number of past sections.
7/13 -> 11/13. If I would stop picking the trap answer when the correct answer is in my top 2, I would be acing this. It's like during blind review, I read the question and interpret it differently and immediately see why my original answer is wrong - just need to figure out how to do it during the actual thing and not during blind review.
Didn't focus too much on time and definitely took longer than I need to on test day, but I'll take an 11/13 and 12/13 after Blind Review. Bring it on, LSAT.
10/13 so not bad but disappointed in myself that it only went to 11/13 after blind review.
Note for others: I would do horrible on BR because I always assumed I got things wrong, when I didn't. If you put your cursor on the red info circle where it says the question was suggested for BR, it will tell you why it was suggest.
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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
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.
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.
@Kevin_Lin do you guys change drills for different users? I am seeing comments from a few days ago that say they had 15 questions while I had 13.
If you do adjust drills, what is this adjustment based on?
@JuliaS. The drills in these lessons are just pulled randomly from the appropriately-tagged passages available from your drill pool. So that's why different people see different passages.
If you do "Smart drills" or drills created through your Study Plan practice blocks, those are tailored based on LR/RC accuracy over a certain number of past sections.
Untimed, 10/15, then 13/15 on BR. I just feel like some of these correct answers are far-fetched :/
15/16 first try yayyy
this is so stupid. Knowing science is such an advantage
8/15 really sucks this far into training. I have to get better
7/13 -> 11/13. If I would stop picking the trap answer when the correct answer is in my top 2, I would be acing this. It's like during blind review, I read the question and interpret it differently and immediately see why my original answer is wrong - just need to figure out how to do it during the actual thing and not during blind review.
Didn't focus too much on time and definitely took longer than I need to on test day, but I'll take an 11/13 and 12/13 after Blind Review. Bring it on, LSAT.
11/16 -> 15/16
decent time.
10/13 so not bad but disappointed in myself that it only went to 11/13 after blind review.
Note for others: I would do horrible on BR because I always assumed I got things wrong, when I didn't. If you put your cursor on the red info circle where it says the question was suggested for BR, it will tell you why it was suggest.