Skipping for the win

AlexRexeger

For the love of all that is holy please tell me how to skip questions. I can skip like nobody’s business with LG but I never skip any LR or RC question. I always finish my sections but I think this is really inhibiting me from getting higher LR scores because I sink the most time on hard questions and I’m noticing in BR that I’m getting a ton of easy ones wrong to make up for lost time. Any advice? #help

10000019

I think there are webinars on skipping strategies. You should look around for one if you want detailed advice.

But here is what I did.
- If the stimulus made no sense to me, I moved on.
- If I thought the question type (specifically parallel reasoning) would be time consuming, I moved on without reading the passage first. I believe once I got better at those question types, I didn't need to skip them at all.

AlexRexeger

I unfortunately do not have access to that webinar anymore because my access expired. Also, I did take a look at it and I didn’t really feel like it was necessarily that helpful. Maybe that’s just me.

Victor Wu

For LR, potential reasons I will skip:
1. I read the stimulas and don’t understand it.
2. I crossed of all the AC.
3. I used POE and was left with one answer choice I don’t feel confident about. I would put a dash next to it to indicate low priority.
4. It’s a SA question. I know I can map it, but at that moment, I’m feeling panicky.
5. I lost focus at the stimulus. I reread it and still can’t gain focus.
6. I’m choosing between 2 AC and both sound good.

Skipping should be a swift and confident decision. If you don’t know it at that moment, then you don’t know it. Better to bank time and use it later when you have a second look.

Hope that helps.

samantha.ashley92

If I have to reread most of the answer choices more than once, I skip the question. If I've gone through my process of elimination and I've eliminated every answer choice, I skip it. If it just feels like it's going to take forever, don't even think about it; just skip it.