is it just me?

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  Bagelinthemorning-1 Alum Member

  June 2018 12 karma

  I have not tried this method actually and RC is the hardest section to make improvements for me. I will make sure to try out this method. Thanks!
• keets993 Alum Member ⭐ ⏰ 🍌

  June 2018 6050 karma

  Yeah, more or less. I think RC questions are basically just a combination of inference, MP, AP, MOR, weaken and strengthen questions. If you approach it in that way it makes RC seem less daunting and 'new' and is instead just LR with a longer stimulus. Like the combination of a page's worth of text from LR.
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  btate87 Alum Member

  June 2018 788 karma

  There are definitely similarities. At their core, both sections are just asking you 1) what did you read? and 2) how well did you understand it?
• s_jricke Alum Member

  June 2018 360 karma

  @kleinstd said:
  Does anyone else feel like RC are just like extended LR questions? I've been using the same techniques for RC as I did for LR and it seems to be working out really well. I find it helpful to approach questions this way.

  Basically.
• kleinstd Alum Member

  June 2018 68 karma

  @btate87 said:
  There are definitely similarities. At their core, both sections are just asking you 1) what did you read? and 2) how well did you understand it?

  So far I have completed the RC problem sets with getting at most one wrong. Also pretending to be interested in all passages helps tremendously with my understanding of them.
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  Ohnoeshalpme Alum Member ⭐

  June 2018 2531 karma

  Do you all think that intensive LR training translates into RC score increases though?
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  JustDoIt Alum Member ⭐

  June 2018 3112 karma

  @Ohnoeshalpme said:
  Do you all think that intensive LR training translates into RC score increases though?

  I don't. The two are not analgous enough and require different skill sets. For example, only a few RC questions throughout the whole section will require the analysis that a strengthen or weaken question requires. RC questions tend to focus more on generalities and abstracted principles in determining answers.
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  tams2018 Member

  June 2018 727 karma

  Yes. As a matter of fact, reading RC passages are like long LR passages. Sometimes the context or viewpoints are extended. One passage I read I swear like the first two paragraphs was basically like the context of where the author was going.

  It really helped me read for structure.
• tanes256 Alum Member

  June 2018 2573 karma

  Yep. Something like that. The LSAT Trainer actually breaks question types down for RC and I can see the similarities.