- Joined
- Oct 2025
- Subscription
- Core
Admissions profile
Applications
Discussions
@juooper I am probably the worst to give advice as I took almost two years of studying to get here lol but I started to keep track of questions that I took exceptionally long time on. I realized my initial impulse was more often correct than not. So if I took longer than two minutes on a question, I would just pick my best gut instinct, flag the question, and move on. By giving myself that out, it relieved a lot of pressure and I had more stamina for the rest of the test. If you are in the high 160's, you are probably in the same boat as me and small tweaks in strategy are probably the best way to get a couple of extra questions right before your test.
I don't understand how AC B can be reached without AC A. How would the people who occupied the site used plants in ways no other people did at the time, unless the archaeologists are able to determine whether the plants were cultivated or were wild?
Is it simply we don't know if the archaeologists be able to determine it in this specific scenario? But it is fact, nonetheless, that it's either cultivated or wild?
Am I missing something?
@Isabella! I have done mostly drills and sections! It is easier to do a couple of questions throughout the day using the 7 Sage app. And I do the drills untimed to fully allow my brain to work through the problem and each answer choice. This is where I have found accuracy training to be the most helpful. Try and make a game out of how many you can get right in a row (5 right, 10 right, 20 right, etc.). If you try and do accuracy training with sections or practice test, you'll get too caught up on the final score.
Couple of tweaks I started to do though:
1. Read the question stem first and identify what you are suppose to do in plain English (I know this is hit or miss, people on both sides swear by reading/not reading the stem first, I found it grounded me between each questions, see if its works for you)
2. Take way longer than you think on the RC passage and TRY HARD to not look back at the passage (unless of course its asking for a specific word or sentence)
3. Catch yourself when your are glossing over or skimming and just go back and read the sentence word by word, make a translation in plain English in your head (it will cost more time later if you don't understand what you have read)