A passage with 9 questions?

RSolZotZot

Hey all,

I'm currently averaging a 20 on RC (23 BR) and usually do better when I go for less passages with more time on each (3 and a half). I'm wondering if there are any passages with more than 8 questions? and what is the best strategy for picking the objective passages to hit?

Thanks

nicole.hopkins

@RSolZotZot said:
I'm wondering if there are any passages with more than 8 questions?

I've certainly never seen a 9-question passage. I suppose it's not impossible for them to do such a thing but I wouldn't bet on it. But if you are choosing to skip a whole passage, and if your goal score allows you to miss as many as 8 points in RC (assuming full accuracy in the passages you do get to), then there's not a turnkey way to "pick" which three you will do (that I can think of), aside from just doing 1, 2, and 3. Sometimes what makes a passage hard is the passage—and sometimes it's the questions. Sometimes it's both. It's probably impossible to measure the relative difficulty of each passage without wasting some time.

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Pacifico

I hate this skipping passages strategy but if you're going to do it then I think skipping the one with the fewest questions is the better way to go.

nicole.hopkins

@Pacifico said:
I hate this skipping passages strategy but if you're going to do it then I think skipping the one with the fewest questions is the better way to go.

Yeah, I agree with this. Damage control.

RSolZotZot

Perfect, thank you for your advice @nicole.hopkins @Pacifico

Quick Silver

I'll tell you what worked for me (this is for me, you may have different needs/preferences).

There were some differences on how I felt about passages content-wise, but it wasn't that big a deal. So then it came down to getting more questions answered and answered correctly....

I noticed that in some cases of later PTs they would put more questions in the last passage.

That could suck for me because if I saved it for last, and I was running out of time, by the time I finished reading the last passage, I may not have adequate time to answer all of the questions correctly.

So my solution was to do a quick scan of how many questions were in passages 3 and 4 when I got to them and do the one with more questions first. Each question made counts equally so why not maximize my chances of getting more correct. I do believe that made a difference for my on my final LSAT.