Hi Carolyn,

RC can be tough - we spend the majority of our academic career learning to read for detail, but that strategy isn't necessarily optimal when reading dense passages under the time crunch of the test. I'd definitely recommend giving the core curriculum on RC a look. It's relatively short and provides an excellent introduction to reading for structure, which I think is a more effective strategy. In effect, this boils down to two parallel processes: identifying the overarching argumentative structure of the passage and learning to effectively locate details within that structure. Give the CC a a listen for more detail on this!

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Hey Claudio,

Timing is often the biggest battle for Logic Games and it can be incredibly frustrating when you get the material provided enough time, but can't execute it to the same standard on the clock. Usually when there's trouble with timing, a great starting point is to review best practices. Are you representing rules as visually as possible? Are you representing them positively? Are you effectively identifying what the most restrictive rules are and using those to split (where applicable)? Are you being strategic about which answer choices you test or are you brute-forcing? These questions (although not exhaustive) can help diagnose inefficiencies in your methodology.

Echoing Matt above, it's also really important to practice games that you've already done. Foolproofing is an incredibly useful drill for this that I'd strongly suggest you implement. Here's a link to the explanation in the core curriculum: https://classic.7sage.com/lesson/fool-proof-guide-to-perfection-on-logic-games-1/.

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