I'm working my through the Ultimate+ package of the CC and I'm learning a lot so far. In LR, I've been doing all of the available practice questions before moving on and I find that I do well in the beginning but end up getting completely demoralized in the final few sets of the section. For example, I worked my way through all of Necessary Assumption and was going -1 at the worst until practice set 16 and for the final few sets, I was struggling to even go -3. Is this something other people have experienced when they went through the CC for the first time? Do you think this is a product of not the knowing the information well enough or is it because some of these sets require doing five back to back level 4 or 5 questions at once that makes them more difficult than they would be on a PT?
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Sunday, Jul 07 2019
Great explanation JY, this question doesn't seem too hard when you know what to look for
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Thursday, Mar 05 2020
I started studying in July and took my first non-diagnostic practice test in February (with a 2.5 month break in between). I scored a 163 and have improved since then. My diagnostic was a 150 as well. I consistently score -0 on LG so I'm still working to get my LR and RC up. This is purely anecdotal, and it may take others a longer or shorter amount of time, but I think it is definitely realistic to get from your diagnostic to a 160 in less than a year if you put in the work.
Don't worry about the practice tests before 1997, the questions in those tests are used for the problem sets in the CC. I would focus on completing the course first, you don't have to do every problem set in every section. Once you have a good grasp of the concepts, start taking the practice tests.