Increasing speed and accuracy

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  JustDoIt Alum Member ⭐

  July 2018 3112 karma

  Improving your habits; knowing when to move on and when to stick with something; and a lot of practice. Speed comes from knowing what you are doing and having solid habits spent from a lot of practice. Accuracy should happen simultaneously. For now, focus on single passages and games in order to improve your strategies and habits. Then when you feel comfortable, do whole sections.
• babybartels2 Alum Member

  July 2018 40 karma

  @JustDoIt said:
  Improving your habits; knowing when to move on and when to stick with something; and a lot of practice. Speed comes from knowing what you are doing and having solid habits spent from a lot of practice. Accuracy should happen simultaneously. For now, focus on single passages and games in order to improve your strategies and habits. Then when you feel comfortable, do whole sections.

  Thank you! I was thinking the same about doing single passages instead of trying to it all at once.
• JustDoIt Alum Member ⭐

  July 2018 3112 karma

  Exactly. Learn to crawl before you run. I did single passages and games all throughout my studies, even more so right before the test.
• samantha.ashley92 Alum Member

  July 2018 edited July 2018 1777 karma

  I would love some suggestions, too! What has helped me overall with PTs is skipping questions. You can start practicing this with individual passages when it gets close-ish to your test date. There is no point in sinking 2 minutes into a question-- especially when the last passage always has so many questions! You don't want to get far behind and then feel rushed. The extra anxiety will make you less attentive.
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  babybartels2 Alum Member

  July 2018 40 karma

  @"samantha.ashley92" said:
  I would love some suggestions, too! What has helped me overall with PTs is skipping questions. You can start practicing this with individual passages when it gets close-ish to your test date. There is no point in sinking 2 minutes into a question-- especially when the last passage always has so many questions! You don't want to get far behind and then feel rushed. The extra anxiety will make you less attentive.

  omg exactly! the moment i realize i have 5 minutes left my attention is zero and i start to feel like there's no point in trying to read any further because its like my brain has frozen.
• babybartels2 Alum Member

  July 2018 40 karma

  @JustDoIt said:
  Exactly. Learn to crawl before you run. I did single passages and games all throughout my studies, even more so right before the test.

  Yes! im trying to crawl and not rush. Its so easy to get so caught up in beating the time at for me.