Do you bounce around the games section to optimize your time? For instance if you’re better at sequencing games do you knock them out first to save the extra time for the other games?

When you find yourself making mistakes, what’s the problem? Misinterpreting the question or rules or just not figuring it out in time? You can get them on untimed review so your grasp of the logical concepts is fine, it’s just a matter of time management.

The whole “sufficient failed, rule irrelevant” and “necessary satisfied, rule irrelevant” concepts do help narrow down what actually matters in the games. Each question normally hinges on the interpretation of only one of the rules, so being able to identify and execute faster saves you time.

Posting just so people can access this without having to PM. Happy to answer any clarifying questions anyone may have. Happy studying!

On top of what's below, I made and memorized the flash cards here: https://quizlet.com/_8iw236?x=1qqt&i=c0dx3

I found that memorizing the flash cards helped speed up my response times to identifying and addressing question stems.

I went through the core curriculum and took three PTs, scoring between 152-157. After those first three PTs (152-157) I drilled what I was missing With timed/BR’d 15 questions sets and I took three more PTs (160-167) and took another look at the analytics. I was able to refine my studying and my skip strategy to better serve me. The PTs you take leading up to the real deal should be in the 80s. There is a huge difficulty disparity between the 60s/70s and thé 80s. The last three i took before taking the real test were 165, 165, and 166. Always 23/23 on LG and varying LR, consistently like -7 on RC.

LR:

I used the analytics to identify which LR questions I was missing the most and put some extra work into them. I used the problem set function and did drills of 15 questions (varying difficulty) for a few weeks until I started to learn the patterns of those specific question types. There are patterns not only in the question stem but also the answer choices, often with trap answers. When it came to test taking, I had to develop a good skip strategy for LR so I wouldn’t waste time. My worst question type was PSA and principle questions, so unless they were in questions 1-10 I just skipped them and came back after I finished. I also skipped questions that I didn’t seem to understand after reading the question stem. What I noticed was that when I came back to the question after finishing the section, something clicked and suddenly the question made sense. Saved me a lot of time rereading the first time.

LG:

Im a pretty mathematical person, so LG came naturally to me. Not to say I didn’t have to learn how to do them, but I think learning was easier for me. For LG knowing when to split the game board is super helpful. To do this you kind of have to play hypotheticals with the master game board, and if, based on one of the rules, there are only 2-3 possible set ups, I’d go ahead and split. Makes it so much more visual and easier to understand. If I found myself stuck on a LG, I often found it was because I was misunderstanding the question or the rules. There is ZERO interpretation in LG, it’s a black and white choice and you can always be 100% confident in your answer if your set up is right and you actually understand the rules. Try to identify which games are challenging for you, what about them makes them challenging, and practice with that isolated issue. 7Sage tags on thé problem set function makes searching for specific question types easy. Going 23/23 on LG is the easiest way to break into the 160s, and it’s very achievable.

RC:

When it came to RC, I figured out which passage types I was better at (law/science) and tried to go through those first, because I knew I would need the extra time for the humanities and misc sections. For the comparative passages (passage A & passage B) I skipped them by default because they were always such a time sink for me. I noticed reading a bit slower actually helped me because it made me have to refer back to the text less frequently, saving time. If you’re stuck on a question that you’ve read 2-3 times already, just learn to skip. Skipping is a life saver and overcoming the pressure of skipping is such a time saver. When you skip efficiently you WILL have time to come back, and more often than not you’ll understand the question the second time around.

@ took me about 14 months but I was working full time so there were a lot of days I didn’t study

Sent a bunch of messages out - If I have missed one of you in the PMs please let me know! :)

@ it was 14 months :) I started April 2019. I’ll PM you how I studied tho!

@-1 if you go to the "Resources" tab on the header, click "Problem Sets" and you can create your own problem sets. I suggest watching the tutorial video, it helps explain how to maneuver the system and filter what you want to work with.

@-1 you're the second person to say look for tone indicators so I will definitely keep an eye out for that. I think I need to dedicate a lot more time to RC as well just so I feel more comfortable/confident with them. Thanks!

As far as my LR improvement, over the course of about three weeks I just drilled LR questions by type in timed sets of 15 (15 strengthen, 15 NA, 15 SA, etc.) and repeated types I had issues with. Through this I really started to figure out the patterns in not only the question stems but the answer choices and trap answer choices. It also REALLY helped for me to read a question, recognize that I don't know what's going on, and skip it. I have found that having a good skip-strategy allowed me an extra 6-7 minutes at the end of the section and when I re-read those questions, something clicked and I suddenly knew what the questions stem was saying.

Lots of people say drill level 4/5 questions because if you're good at those you'll be good at every questions, but I disagree. The level 1/2/3 questions have the exact same patterns and questions/answer types than the harder ones. If your drills include all level questions I think you will be much better off and you will figure out the patterns much easier than by muscling through exclusively level 4/5 questions.

Does "a large proportion" not translate to "most" (51-100)? Even in JY's example, the /CA did not outweigh the CA + DMG (97 vs 100). Can someone please explain where I'm going wrong?

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3 years of confusion below and this is still in the weakening category for some reason.