Hi everyone!
I'm writing the October test and hoping for a 170+. I feel like I'm close but really need to improve my timed accuracy. For example, my two most recent PTs were 168 timed and 173 BR & 166 timed and 177 BR. If you've been in a similar position I'd love to hear how you improved!!
Thanks in advance :)
@Michelle2001 Practice reading for structure untimed so you train your brain on what to look for. Honestly RC is my most unpredictable section so I'm still working on this.
@Michelle2001 On the questions I don't understand I spend like 10 minutes on them so I have more specific feedback to give myself. I was definitely guilty of writing "read more carefully next time" but you really have to make yourself understand before moving on. I also include strategy suggestions in my wrong answer journal, for example I skip must be true questions if I don't see an obvious answer right away then come back to them and diagram at the end.
I've also been here! I was stuck scoring the same for months and was so frustrated but now my most recent PTs were in the 170s. These are the things that really helped:
I wrote out the approach to every LR question type in a step by step list to remind me what I should be looking out for. I printed it out and reference it while I'm drilling. Now I feel much more confident about "where to look" when approaching a question. (disclaimer for this: obviously not every question will follow a template but I just use it as a general guide)
I did untimed drilling for weeks -- going through each question painstakingly slow until I could justify why each answer choice was wrong/right
I started re reading my wrong answer journal before each time I studied so I was reminded of what mistakes I made and how I planned on not doing the same again
I went back to the core curriculum and redid all of the conditional reasoning lessons because formal logic was (and still is) my biggest weakness
I hope this helps & you got this!
For those that got caught up on D...what would you do to not get tricked by something like this in the future? I'm trying to wrong answer journal but it doesn't seem helpful to say "read more carefully next time".
I did misinterpret E to be too vague to satisfy the condition /known to pose only a minimal risk ... but I'm struggling to think of how I can avoid doing it again in the future.
If anyone has any advice I am all ears :)
@8M_M8 I write down the strategy I use when approaching each question. For example, for NA questions...
Identify premises/conclusion & support (this is helpful for every question type)
Find the "gap" between the premises & conclusion
Try and guess the "bridge" between the premises & conclusion in my own words
Look through the answer choices are try the negate/destroy test on the answer choices that look right