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Why are the hard questions easy and the easy questions hard?
Continue practicing. As someone who was once in your shoes, you will get faster. First focus on understanding the reason your answers are correct, and speed will come soon after.
it will trust the process!
He says "who cares" to indicate it's irrelevance to the question. There is no explanation available for that answer choice. Also, this course is 70$. If you really want in-depth and perfect study materials, fork out the $60 an hour to a tutor.
Was also shocked by that and especially after seeing the time target of 1:10. Figured it was a 2 or 3 at least.
I'll do my best to explain. The argument is that the news station is biased since they showed twice as many interviews of people against the freeway than for it. So D weakens the argument that they're biased because if twice as many people are against the freeway, you can make the assumption that the news station isn't biased because if they're interviewing people where it's a 2:1 ratio of against/for the construction, it shows that they didn't cherry pick interviews and were in fact just interviewing people randomly and the ratio ended up being the same. I believe I chose E the first time around (3 months ago)
The website crashed sometime this morning for about 3 hours. Maybe the progress wasn't saved?
Pretty sure if you go to prep tests and click "obsolete format" it'll give you 3 part exams. Once you choose the exam you want to take, click on the drop down menu and itll give you the option to take it with logic games, without logic games, etc.
I'm interested. Currently in the high 150's to low 160's.
Replying to your question, I totally worded that wrong. What I should've said was that I space out the timed tests that I do like I only do 1 timed test per week instead of the 2 or 3 that I previously did. I've also recently started doing some untimed tests on the older exams (PT's 1-20) instead of drills.
For me, I space out the timed tests that I do because I also experience this. But doing more timed tests is the only way to build stamina. Also, eating during the allotted 10 minute break helps too. I usually can't because I'm so anxious but the few times I have have helped greatly. Past that, the only other thing I can think of is getting so good at the questions that you don't even have to think about them.
Switch from V1 to V2. When you click "syllabus" about half way down the screen when you initially open it, you should see in the middle it says "switch to v2." That should work.
I did 85-90% of the curriculum and then started taking practice tests. Currently have done 6 PT's and am only really going back to the LR lessons on the questions I got wrong more often than not. You can check your analytics after the PT's to see what you're good/bad at currently. But yeah, I'd make sure to not spam PT's because they are a finite resource.
Interested!
Long Island, but willing to study virtual
I've only done 5 PT's so far so take this with a grain of salt. On this last PT tho, I got my current best timed score of a 161 with my best RC section as well of -8.
So I do the low resolution summaries for passages that are on topics I don't like (art) or understand (also art) so I can at least have some basic structure and comprehension of what's going on. For topics I am aware of or find interesting, I skim the first and last 2 sentences of each paragraph. That way, I get a sense of the structure of the passage, the main point of the passage, and then the questions that refer to specific lines in the text are a given since you just use context clues surrounding said sentences. The main issue for me in the "infer" and "imply" questions. Those actually require some understanding of the text and at least in the PT's I've done, I haven't seen an infer or imply question that references lines in the text so it makes me have to skim and find where the inference is being drawn from.
Also, reading the questions before the passage has done wonders for me. A lot of the passages are intentionally dense and full of words no normal person would use and I've found that you don't even really need to understand or read any of that to get a large portion of the questions right.
Skipping passages with only 5 questions too. Unless it's a really short passage, I skip it until the end since it has the least amount of points possible for a potentially high amount of time invested.
That's my experience and strategy so far though and I still have a few more months of prep. All in all, consistent practice is the main thing you can do to get better and BR.
Interested!
Check the question difficult after the fact to see if they're consecutively difficult questions. It could also by a psychological thing where you continue thinking about the previous question despite being on the next one. I do this far too often where I'm distracted by potentially getting that one wrong and then will over think about it for the rest of the test.
Know the currents, understand the depths, and observe the movement of each fin. In the realm of strategy, as in the vast ocean, mastery lies not in catching fish, but in the art of swimming with them - Sun Tzu
I take back what I said 2 lessons ago.
These are the easiest questions thus far, besides argument part.
Even though I got this wrong due to reading the AC's improperly, these are a breath of fresh air.
2: MP is main point which is pretty much the same as main conclusion (I think)
This couldn't have come at a better time.