RC advice?

TheMikey

Hey everyone. So I've been going at it with this test for more than a year now. I used to solely rely on the memory method and no notations, but now for the past few months I've been doing Nicole's notation strategy with a small kick of just writing like 1 or 2 words next to each paragraph (e.g. background info, evidence, and so on).

I haven't seen improvement the way I would like to, and RC is the only section holding me back from getting into the 170's. I'm like a machine on LR and LG, but RC just doesn't seem to want to work with me. I miss mostly detail and inference questions, and I usually can always get the bigger picture questions right such as MP and function of a paragraph ones.

I'm starting to get frustrated as even when I do passage untimed, I still cannot go perfect on them and sometimes miss an embarrassing amount. I read for structure, tone, etc. and all of that good stuff but nothing!

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Mellow_Z

I can't speak to this personally, but I know a LOT of people strongly recommend active reading.

https://7sage.com/webinar/active-reading/

Here's a webinar of it. I would also recommend checking out this recent discussion on RC strategies.

https://7sage.com/discussion/#/discussion/10743/stuck-in-the-mid-160s-again-rc-help-needed
https://7sage.com/discussion/#/discussion/10749/my-rc-strategy-that-got-me-to-0