In your opinion, what is the best way to improve? Right now I'm just really slow to make inferences during games, if I make them at all. A lot of the time it takes me the entire 35 mins just to get through the first two games.

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I will review the LR section, I have not however, been as diligent as you suggest about why I have been wrong - maybe that's it, because when I see the correct answer I'm like yup, but maybe or should I say obviously I need to know why.

Yeah what I do is keep an actual wrong answer journal and I'll go back and just write in detail about why I was wrong and why the correct answer was right. It can be a bit time consuming but it helps you to be aware of the mistakes you're making. I know for me personally I often make a lot of the same mistakes over and over again so I know that if I can nail those down I can begin to start scoring around -2 or -3 on the entire section, where right now I'm around -7 on both sections of LR combined.

I've taken the actual thing twice and have scored a 146 and a 153. This past week I took my two first practice tests since the November exam and I scored a 154 and a 161 and the biggest key to my improvement has been just immersing myself in the core curriculum for the LR section. Before this I studied with the Loophole book and that was good for building my foundations, but the core curriculum for this course has tied it all together. I think truly understanding what the test wants you to do and how it wants you to think, at least on a basic level, is the key to breaking through to the 160s. Also, going back and reviewing all of your wrong answers and writing down why you were wrong and why the correct answer is right is a big part of gaining understanding too.

My last three PTs went 163-159-165. I usually stay in the 161-166 range at this point but sometimes I'll get blindsided by something and put up a 157 or a 159. Just try to review and see what kicked your a$$ on a particular test and try to weed out that problem through drilling.

From NJ/NY and I'm interested!