Blind Review Group | PT 59 | Saturday, September 10 | 8pm EST

Cant Get Right

Saturday, September 10 at 8PM ET: PT 59

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@"Cant Get Right" said:

Cant Get Right

Too hard to keep coming up with things I can try and make relevant, so just going to start doing things I like, haha.

rakinalikhan

ill be there

kombucha

Is it just me or is 59's LR much harder & trickier than normal?

hazelnut13

you broke the -th -st -rd joke streak on this one.

Cant Get Right

Nah, it's fill in the blank week!

twssmith

For those on the call tonight... This was incredibly helpful to me especially when I was learning to skip because I had the skills built in knowing my internal time clock thanks to Nicole!
I have it printed out and taped to my wall:)

https://7sage.com/discussion/#/discussion/4734/how-often-do-you-check-the-time

@nicole.hopkins said:
Here's how to train your internal clock.
Grab your phone. Got a stopwatch app? Grab it. Or get one. And get three highlighters: pink, yellow, green.

LR:
Do a timed section. At every single Q for LR, hit lap. At the end of the section, go back through the Q's and write down what your 'lap' time was for each Q.

For Q's where you spent more than 1.20, pink. 1 minute–1.19, yellow. Under 1 minute, green.

RC:
Do a timed section. Hit lap after each read and for each of the Q's.

For Q's where you spent more than 1 minute, pink. 31 seconds–59 seconds, yellow. Under 30 seconds, green. (This is assuming your read is 3.30-4 minutes)

LG:
Do a timed section. Hit lap after each diagram and for each of the Q's.

For Q's where you spent more than 1 minute, pink. 45 seconds–59 seconds, yellow. Under 45 seconds, green. (This is assuming your setup is around 3 minutes)




Do that for 3-5 sections per subject area. You'll get a feel for one minute/one minute 20.

twssmith

Once you have an understanding of your internal time clock - then you can utilize skipping strategies and incorporate Corey's Tiered level of approach to get the most out of your abilities:)

https://7sage.com/webinar/timing-and-levels-of-certainty/

edited to add link to Skip Webinar..
https://7sage.com/webinar/skip-it/

twssmith

Hey @nader.parham Maybe this will help with a strategy to finish more questions:)

I saved this post from last Fall - http://7sage.com/discussion/#/discussion/comment/29555
She provides a strategy but also notes that increased experience and understanding of the fundamentals will increase your speed. Hope it helps:)

@cjones76 said:
I had a similar problem. This is what I did to get myself to answer more questions.

I set small incremental goals each test. So next test try to reach 18/19. Once you reach that try to reach 20/21.

I calculated how much time that allowed me per question and knew that if I was going over I needed to move on. So, for 18 questions it'd be about 1 min 55 seconds. Then I used a loop timer to plug in that amount of time and periodically look up at my computer to see what loop I should be on and how that measured up to what question number I was at. Therefore, I knew I was spending too much time or if my speed was improving. Allowing myself to visually see where I should be really helped develop a sense of timing. Because prior I was allowing myself spend way to long on easier questions, but wouldn't realize it. This forced me to focus on increasing my speed.

Obviously, you won't have that benefit during the real test, so once you get to where you want to be or close to it I would stop using the loop timer.

And to echo what everyone else said, you need to learn how to devote less time easy question and to not spin your wheels on hard questions. When a question is easy don't question it and second guess yourself (real thought process: "that was way too easy, I need to redo that to confirm thats right"). Instead take it and run- move on to the next question. When you can't figure out what a stimulus is telling or can't figure out the answer circle it answer move on. Don't sit there and compare answer choices to each other.

Increasing speed is also about hounding in fundamentals, so they come more as second nature.

http://www.online-stopwatch.com/loop-countdown/ <--- loop timer

Not Ralph Nader

Hey @twssmith, thanks for writing the post this is supper helpful. I gonna implement this strategy to get my time down. I wish you the best on the test.