I worked really hard to perfect LG and I thought that I had arrived when I had a few weeks when my LG performance dropped to -0 or, at worst, -1. When that happened, I kept practising and did not become complacent. I knew not to always expect -0.
But what I didn’t expect was to almost forget how to do the games. I started going -4, -5; and that week’s PT was -10.
I don’t know what to do. Is this kind of regression normal? Am I overthinking things?
Good idea! I am interested, thank you
I think I get it now.
Stimulus: Rules routinely unpunished => should never be allowed to go unpunished.
D) sometimes not punishing ≠ routinely not punishing
Currently scoring in the mid-160s with a similar goal. I am interested in joining this group.
I am interested if there is still space. Thank you!
@ You mentioned that you had both good and bad experiences with private tutoring. Where were you looking/who did you hire? I am thinking of trying to find one, and want to know how to find one that will be helpful. Thank you and congratulations!
Interested! Thank you
Thank you!
I've heard that foolproofing the games from PT50 to the present is a good idea, and I am leaning in that direction because a lot of the earlier games do seem to be relics of the past. But I also want to be able to do my full PTs from the newer tests. How should I reconcile this apparent paradox?
Thank you for doing this
Questions that reference a specific term or phrase
I am definitely interested. Let's do this!
The only way this question finally clicked for me is the word 'reserves'. The amount that we are reserving, i.e. leaving in the ground, has remained the same. But we are consuming more. (E) says that we are now capable of extracting more. So, we can still keep the same amount in reserves and extract more.
I simply did not understand the mechanics of the lottery in the moment.
I, for one, strongly considered A, but moved on because I did not see 'good sound quality' as analogous to being inaccurate.
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A similar thing happened to me, I worked so hard on games and did them so regularly that I became very comfortable - almost too comfortable- and I noticed I was scoring much more poorly when I felt confident. I think becoming overconfident can be dangerous when doing games. It is also possible that you are overthinking as well. Usually in the 1 star games, the easy questions can seem deceptively simple - it's easy to think to yourself "can the answer really be this easy?" yes- it can, if you did the work up front and came up with the inferences which I'm sure you're doing.
When you go back to Blind Review - are you still getting the same questions wrong? Make sure when you BR that you start the game from scratch - don't just go over your work, do a completely new game board and make the inferences all over again - this way you can see if maybe you misread in your timed attempt.
Also always triple read the rules - I remember on my June test I had reached the end of the first or second game when I realized something was off so I reread the rules and realized that I misread! so I had to start over - if I hadn't gone back and redone the game I probably would have lost 5 easy points.
I'm sure you'll work everything out! good luck!
Thank you! When I BR, I start fresh and will get everything right. During the section it feels like I am looking at something impossible — the games just don't make sense.
And I know that part of it is needing to be more careful with the rules. I've fallen for negative statements in the rules many times.