Thank you 7sage 169!

cooljon525-1-1

Its been one hell of a ride. I never thought that this would end but today it finally did. Its funny because I thought I wasn't ready and was considering delaying to study till March or June. So glad I took the opportunity to try and make it this cycle.

GSU Hopeful

Congratulations. Hard work pays off.

Possible_byfaith

BIG Congrats!

lexxx745

Congrats man! Really enjoyed that Blind Review session with you.

Hopeful9812

Congratulations!!

soniakohli1988

How long did you study for and can you share what your test prep was like ? How much did you need to improve

Juliet - Student Service

@cooljon525 Congratulations on your achievement. Well done!

cooljon525-1-1

@soniakohli1988 said:
How long did you study for and can you share what your test prep was like ? How much did you need to improve

I started studying on and off around Jan/Feb. I was ahead in school so I was able to take 2 quarters off my junior yr. I was taking a PT every other day and ended up wasting a lot of PTs. I eventually stopped taking so many tests and was just taking 1 or 2 a week. I got LR down very quickly. Anytime I saw I was missing a certain question type over and over, I would drill all the 5 stars of that question type in the question bank. Was missing around 4 in 2 LR sections. Games took me around 2-3 months to get down to get perfect. I just drilled it by game type and reviewed the games I took in PTs. Now RC is what started screwing me. I usually missed around 4 in the old tests but after test 50 my RC scores doubled to -8 or -9, sometimes -10 because of the inference/MSS questions that required a deeper understanding.

I was always scoring around 170 until the newer tests (50+), i dropped and hit a wall at 166-167, sometimes 165. I was missing so much on RC so I dedicated my summer to try and improve RC. I did feel like I was improving but it was taking too long. I felt like I might need to take a year off and my plan was to drill all the RC's of every test and read them to try to get the best understanding. While taking the tests/drilling, I encountered some of the craziest RC passages. I would spend like half an hour reading them and still have no idea wtf is going on.

This was the breaking point for me. I realized that I could delay a year and not improve that much on RC b/c they can throw those crazy passages. So I figured I would take September. I ended up missing 7 on RC which was still a lot considering it was on the easier side but I made up for it on the games. I was very lucky because this was the best test I could get. RC was easy and the games were hard. I'd rather have hard games any day than a hard RC.

soniakohli1988

Thank you for this @cooljon525