I have trouble skipping questions. I really do not like how it feels. Some questions are deceptively hard. Some questions are deceptively easy. If I push the door open on any mindset that says "damn, this one is hard, that is okay, I'll come back later," I don't trust my nervous self to know where to draw that line come test day.
I draw confidence from the linear progress of advancing through the test, and if I get to question 20-25 and I look back at a line of answered/not-answered questions that resembles swiss cheese, I will for sure freak out. I prefer to give each answer a very strong "college try" and come back later if I have time just to look at it again. I am a 170-175 scorer and this is what works for me.
Someone (Bailey I think?) on the 7Sage podcast said that they skip around half of the questions on the first pass through any section. Then they go back and scoop up more and maybe flag one or two to go back to at the very end. Going to try this on some PTs. It makes sense especially as you’re getting into the groove.
But how do you know which ones are the "hard" ones? Do you read all of them first, or do you just assume that the long questions are the most difficult?
This is a dumb question, but if we skip a question and don't have time to go back and do it thoroughly, should we fill in a random bubble just to have an answer in there? or leave it blank completely?
I heard a good LR analogy that ironically is also about trees, which summarizes the idea in the last paragraphs: don't sacrifice the forest for one silly tree
Will you get punished for leaving it blank? Or should you fill in every answer even if you aren't sure (making a quick educated guess)? I hate leaving questions blank and so isn't it better giving yourself a 1 in 5 chance of getting it right instead of no chance? #feedback
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I have trouble skipping questions. I really do not like how it feels. Some questions are deceptively hard. Some questions are deceptively easy. If I push the door open on any mindset that says "damn, this one is hard, that is okay, I'll come back later," I don't trust my nervous self to know where to draw that line come test day.
I draw confidence from the linear progress of advancing through the test, and if I get to question 20-25 and I look back at a line of answered/not-answered questions that resembles swiss cheese, I will for sure freak out. I prefer to give each answer a very strong "college try" and come back later if I have time just to look at it again. I am a 170-175 scorer and this is what works for me.
Yes, I really need to start doing this!
THIS IS SUCH A GREAT ANALOGY THANK YOU
Those are macadamia nuts, which are delicious nuts. A coconut is also delicious, but is not a nut.
macadamia nut → delicious
coconut → delicious
coconut → /nut
Someone (Bailey I think?) on the 7Sage podcast said that they skip around half of the questions on the first pass through any section. Then they go back and scoop up more and maybe flag one or two to go back to at the very end. Going to try this on some PTs. It makes sense especially as you’re getting into the groove.
But how do you know which ones are the "hard" ones? Do you read all of them first, or do you just assume that the long questions are the most difficult?
This is a dumb question, but if we skip a question and don't have time to go back and do it thoroughly, should we fill in a random bubble just to have an answer in there? or leave it blank completely?
I heard a good LR analogy that ironically is also about trees, which summarizes the idea in the last paragraphs: don't sacrifice the forest for one silly tree
Will you get punished for leaving it blank? Or should you fill in every answer even if you aren't sure (making a quick educated guess)? I hate leaving questions blank and so isn't it better giving yourself a 1 in 5 chance of getting it right instead of no chance? #feedback
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Strong argument by analogy!