When running into this issue, sometimes less is more. I would start with consistently focusing on 1 quality hour a day and then build from there.

I typically do an hour in the morning and an hour in the afternoon. Weekends I will take a test and review.

If you feel yourself getting burnt out after 3-4 weeks, take a few days off and re-charge.

Sounds like you are probably in your head about it. You do not magically forget the skill, but instead are probably focusing on the wrong things.

When I get in this funk, I go back to the basics of slowing down and making sure I understand the argument before going into answer choices.

I would tell my parents to take a hike. This test is too important to rush. Taking it when you are not prepared is idiotic. I would know! I took it twice while not prepared and magically did not score in the range I wanted to. Took it for the third time last week after consistently hitting my target range and feel much better. I could see your parents being upset if you are slacking off on studying, but if you are putting in a good amount of effort, just continue to stay the course.

I agree with @ in that telling people you are taking it can be counter productive.

Afternoon! You should not be thinking about this in terms of catching up! You should move on to new sections of studying once you feel like you have grasped the material. Moving on for the sake of following a schedule is counter productive to your end goal.

Greetings,

You are probably in your head about it. RC is one that can have huge fluctuations in general as sometimes we just simply get a passage that does not make sense to us. I would NOT do a PT at all. I would do untimed studying to erase the time pressure and make sure you are thinking through things correctly. This will help you not kill your confidence.

You got this!

I would say do not be so beholden to the time constraint. It is more important to make sure you understand the material as opposed too sticking to some rigid hours studied goal.

Yes that is a great idea! If you can go perfect for the first three with more time and guess the final passage, you can potentially get that to -5/-7

Good bounce back after the "candor" passage. This one reinforced that I do in fact know how to read......

woah went -7 on this passage. Never done that bad on a passage. WTF

Typically you will see easier questions in the beginning and the harder ones the last 10-15 questions for LR. Sometimes they will throw a 5 star question around number 8-10 in LR, and have seen harder games for LG and passages for RC in the beginning as well. So it kind of depends for those sections.

I would just drill logic games. You should be able to foolproof a good portion of the newer ones. With your limited timeframe, I would not do any games on tests earlier than 35. Those have a different flavor.

Greetings Y'all! You are not going to want to hear this, but you need to expand out your timeline on studying. I started at 141 2 years ago and it took me 18 months to get to 157 official. Now I am finally up to the high 160's after 24 months of studying and taking the exam for a third time in January. This test takes time to learn, their are no shortcuts.

For LG just focus on fool-proofing the games

LR focus on getting 100% correct on the first 10-15 questions before really trying to get to questions 15-25

RC I would recommend doing a ton of passages un-timed to learn what RC passages are asking you. It is a different way of reading that still trips me up. I average -4/-6 typically but still get hit with a -10 here and there if I start reading like I am in college again.

Yes!

It took me 10 minutes to realize that answer choice said form not from! lol I was thinking that it was a typo and could not get passed it.

If you are taking prior to August, I would suggest getting LG down and sprinkle in some LR work so you do not forget what you learned.

I usually take 4 min set up per passage maybe longer. I would rather have a full understanding of the passage and go through the questions with confidence and greater speed.

In the same boat as you @-3-1! 141 to a high of 171! Averaging 168 on the last 10 prep tests. Feels so good! You all can do it! Keep working!

What area are you struggling with the most?

Nope, they only look at your highest. They might care a bit if you score high, then really low and apply with the low score as your most recent score.

Are you getting more wrong towards the end? Beginning? Something that worked for me was focus on getting 10/10 for the first ten regardless of time, then move to 15/15, then 20/20. I would guess the rest I didn't have time for. Now I am averaging -5 on LR.

Another thing that helped me was ditching diagramming completely. I got so focused on diagramming and indicator words that I was not even understanding the arguments.

Hope this helps.

I took it in person and liked it a lot more than taking it at home. We had desks that had high side walls so I was not distracted at all.

What worked for me is just doing a ton of them. Also, I noticed that a lot of the times I was picking answers that were way too strong given what was said in the passage.