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i thought the first RC was hard and the difficulty kind of blindsided me, but the rest of the sections felt relatively straightforward. am praying first RC is the experimental section lol
wow i'm literally in the same boat as you –pt'ing 167/168 but scored 161-163 on my last few tests. i'm taking the test saturday, so what i've been doing this week is doing section/question type (4-5 star) drills and blind reviewing them. tomorrow, i'm planning on only reviewing my wrong answer journal and my flashcards/notes/the core curriculum for question types i have trouble with.
maybe make problem sets out of LR question types that you struggle with most using questions from the 80s tests and review them? i agree with tahurrrrr on not doing anymore PTs and taking a break. take a day off –don't wear yourself out before test day.
@mfedak390 said:
Were you guys asked if you were an EU citizen?
yep!
seconding lattechoco, keep refreshing proctoru when you get the error page y'all! i was eventually able to schedule (i did have to refresh one page 5 times lol)
hi all! i'm struggling with overconfidence errors in RC – my range for timed RC goes from -3 to -6, and during BR, i usually only manage to catch half of the errors. today i took preptest 71, got 5 wrong in timed RC, and didn't catch any of them in BR, so i'm a bit concerned.
most of my mistakes stem from falling into trap ACs, while the others seem to be coming from, oddly enough, some level of underconfidence (?) i.e. i look at an answer, think "no way that's it," and pick another answer after overanalyzing, only to find out my initial guess was right. in any case, i finish RC with around 2-3 minutes to spare, so i think i'm having some serious issues with accuracy. i've tried using the remaining time to come back to flagged questions and review the stimulus again, but i still get them wrong. that, or the questions i get wrong aren't ones i flagged.
any advice on how to study would be appreciated; for what it's worth, i'm taking the august test. thanks so much!
edit: forgot to mention i write out VIEWSTAMP for each passage on scratchpaper, if that's helpful.
foolproofing logic games, doing question stem and conditional logic flashcards, revisiting weak spots in lr and doing practice sets, reviewing wrong answers for prior practice tests, to name a few! i'm planning on reading articles from the economist and books on logic like a rulebook for arguments (just ordered my copy heh)
i second (or fourth? lol) just mercy!
re: history, "unbecoming british: how revolutionary america became a postcolonial nation" by kariann akemi yokota and "empire of cotton: a global history" by sven beckert may be of interest! "silencing the past: power and the production of history" by michel-rolph trouillot too, perhaps, though that one's more about how power functions in writing historical narratives. also, i took a course on early u.s. history (1763 to 1898) in college and would be happy to email you the syllabus if you'd like.
(my fun read these days is anything zadie smith-related –just started her essay collection "changing my mind.")
@jonathankorger285 said:
I've read quite broadly on a number of topics. Below are some recommendations from each category. Some of these are quite difficult and could be borderline inaccessible depending on your training. If you can get through some of these, it makes RC seem like an article out of Sports Illustrated Kids.
Philosophy
Kant's Critique
Lacan's Ecrits
Anything by Kierkegaard
Dialect of Enlightenment Horkheimer Adorno
History:
Europe: A history (1400 page, absolute beast)
The Rise of the Third Reich
The Origins of Political Order
Economics
Capital
Keynes' TEIM
Or alternatively, Hayke's Road to Serfdom
Hernando De Soto's mystery of capital
Social Injustice
Scarcity by Shafir and Mullainathan
Happiness for all
The broken ladder
Bonus picks
An anthology of essays, maybe Hitchens Arguably
A book with a controversial premise: I picked against empathy by bloom
A guilty pleasure, I like Cormac McCarthy or Steinbeck for these purposes
cormac mccarthy does not miss... the ending of "the road" made me put the book down and stare at the ceiling and contemplate my life for twenty minutes.
happy holidays! is the zoom link in the post the same for this saturday?
interested!