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Does anyone know how people can get few (like 1 or 2) to zero wrong on RC. I find it ridiculously hard sometimes to attain the necessary information within 8-9 minutes and to answer the questions for each passage.
Are those people just going back and forth between the Q and passage really really fast?
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platypuses are vicious, creatures of the devil.
Tastes amazing too.
The related discussions area strikes again :) But I too was like wow this is great JY is posting a lot oh wow 3 years!
Zombie thread... o.o
Yeah, great thread though, so definitely a good one to resurface.
@jhaldy10325 I was thinking the same thing. I was like, "Wow this is a really interesting discussion ... what this was from... 3 YEARS AGO?!" WHOA!
Wow, you guys are digging deep!
What I have learned is I do better not underlining much at all. I am slowly bringing my RC score down by just reading, and not stressing about what should be underlined. I realize this does not work for everyone, but you just really have to find what works for you.
What helped me improve was pretending I was very interested in the content. I am constantly asking myself questions in my head whilst reading, even if I don't actually care in real life. For example, if the section is about medieval art, for those 8 minutes, I mentally pretend medieval art is my passion. I want to know everything there is to know about medieval art. This active reading helps me retain the information better.
@jpak822271 really, thank you!
took the test on the 10th. I had at least 5 minutes to go back an recheck my answers on one of the RC had about 8 minutes on the second. i am hoping the first was experimental. in either case I had enough time to go back and double check my answers and on two occasions I was able to pick what I felt was a better answer on a second go around. I am extremely pleased with how June's Lsat went. thanks again Jpak
@jackmf419475 Mejia - glad to be of help mate!
jpak822- I think you have seriously saved my June Lsat. I was consistently getting 2-3 wrong on the RC section so I exclusively focused on the LR and AR which I was able to get down to where I feel comfortable for the schools I would like to attend. Problem was that my RC started sliding until I hit a wall this week and got 11 questions wrong. it wasnt until I read your post that I noticed that about a week and a half ago I changed the way I approached the RC. instead of reading for the important information I was following Mark Tenorio's advise and carefully reading every single word. the problem is that you just cant remember everything- and you hurt yourself - by not giving yourself sufficient time to go back to the passage when you have to for specific reasons. After reading your post- I did a few RC sections using your technique, what I originally had been doing. I was done 5 minutes early and was back down to 3-4 wrong. I can live with that. thanks again.
@jpak822271 this is great! Everyone should try to understand more about which RC passages are especially though for them.
Over the past few months, I've been practicing skimming and then attacking questions for the first 2 passages... basically I have an attack plan to read and answer questions for the first 2 passages within 15 minutes (skipping up to 2 detail-except questions, and then spending the remaining 20 minutes for the last 2 passages).
For easier RC sections I now have up to 5 minutes to check over some questions I guessed earlier, and at least 2/3 minutes to check over 1/2 hard questions
This is my plan of attack:
I spend the first minute of the 35 minutes quickly reading the first few lines of each passage to determine my passage order... I usually tackle the following passages as the first 2:
1) Non-humanity diversity (non-art/literature/film) - talks about women's issues, african american and native american racial equality issues, immigrant issues
2) Legal - talking about some system flaw or the way in which the law helps ppl
3) Science - typical dense passages with a lot of details (I basically skim over the details, noting the conclusions and main ideas discussed)
The last 2 I do are:
4) Legal - talks about some theory or reasoning behind the law (very dense passages and hard to understand even if you do spend 5 minutes reading...)
5) Standard humanity - talks about literature, art, economics, politics, philosophy, etc... even if it talks about some african american or asian american achieving/creating sth great
6) Science - ecology or evolution... these tend to be more humanity like in that it talks about some social issues in which something impacts the well-being or understanding of human beings
The reason for doing numbers 1 through 3 first is that their main points and passage structures/flows are quite predictable.. This is why I can skim through 10-30% percent of the passage and still get most of the questions right (the time consuming part is to go back to the question to answer detail questions.. but even if you read in detail, you won't remember it anyway... thus its a waste of time!!!)
ahh I've gotten at least one wrong on every law passage. I probably should just take the hint.
@chadds0638, i love the idea too!
@unhappymeal, I love basin of attraction, i thought that one is not too scientific...:)
@slimjimsquinn-99118, i feel the same
This will sound mean but I'm glad i'm not the only one who runs out of time in finishing the RC section (I always run out of time with a whole passage remaining). I think I'm at a particular disadvantage because English is not my first language (as i imagine is the case with some other 7Sagers) and I am slow at reading even the most simple writings (think Harry Potter). I'm not taking the LSAT until October and I'm hoping my recent subscriptions to The Economist and Scientific American will pay off.
@slimjimsquinn-99118 You didn't like the palytapus reading? i thought that one was alright. The one I hated the most was the riddled basin of attraction.
"Maybe a nice, dirty science passage outlining the death of platypuses due to excessive C02 mixed with its embroyonic polarity gone bonkers? "
Samarth, what you are suggesting sounds like hell on earth. And yes, I would like to participate.
Yeah, please vote (with the "Like" button). I think with some pressure I'll actually make them.
Glad to see a discussion on RC here. Does anybody feel like they need an explanation on any old passage from RC? Maybe we can boil it down to one passage to request the 7sage team for one? Not sure if they will appeal to the request, but its worth a shot. I find JY's grinding through the passages very helpful, and I'm getting greedy for some more especially on the earlier PT's (before PTs 45 etc). Maybe a nice, dirty science passage outlining the death of platypuses due to excessive C02 mixed with its embroyonic polarity gone bonkers?
Just a shoutout to see if others feel the same way...