Same problem, I definitely think it's because drills are generally done with fewer questions and you may spend more time on each question giving your brain a break between sets. Still working on this but something that has helped is mentally breaking up a LR section into 5 separate 5 question drills (like in my head telling myself "ok I have done 5, which is just 1 drill, time to move onto another 5 question drill, and so forth). To me this removes the pressure of a whole section, while allowing me to focus more on the question without thinking too much about how many more I have left. BUT this is not an approach that works every time lol. It just makes a large LR section more feasible mentally.

Hey, I had the same problem on my first attempt and especially with RC, these are some things I have done to work on it.

1. For RC, pretend like whatever the passage is saying is the most interesting thing you have ever read in your life. Lowkey toxic way of approaching it, but gaslighting yourself into thinking the topic is so interesting makes you want to understand it better and also helps with timing.

2. The second thing I did was truly honing in on understanding the passage before I even moved onto the questions. Sometimes this might mean spending up to 5 minutes just reading and re-reading the passage until I have a very firm grasp on what it is talking about and then only will I even move onto the questions. using this technique, I have been able to bring down my RC timing while maintaining accuracy (because I won't need to spend as much time reading the question, the right answer will quite literally show itself when you understand the passage well).

3. With LR, I try to do the first 15 questions in 15 minutes, leaving 20 minutes for the remaining 10 ish questions at the end (which are generally harder).

4. General tip: Reading the Economist/Espresso (the free version for students) regularly, and doing puzzles on a daily basis also helps keep my brain sharp has also helped. The other thing I noticed also was that spending less time on social media, and avoiding doomscrolling definitely helps with focus and fixing your attention span and being able to understand the convoluted passages that RC sections present.

Hope this helps, and good luck!

so I was able to get to the answer after writing out all the conditionals, but it took me over 7 minutes to do so... I am at a loss on how to improve my speed when doing these translations because there's no way id be able to answer it without guessing on the actual test, like I find that my brain just goes to mush whenever there's a question with so many conditionals like this, help!!!! How do I get faster at this???