August Exam

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  mwilliams Member

  August 2020 10 karma

  I literally have the same problem. I usually get anywhere between 12-14 out of the first 15 correct, and afterwards, I find myself thinking I might as well just guess the answer choices. I can usually narrow down the correct answer choice to one of 3 possible options. And I always seem to choose the wrong one. I saw some success with skipping 15-20 and doing the last 5 but sometimes I've also seen success doing 15-20.
• kilgoretrout Alum Member

  August 2020 795 karma

  The last questions on LR are typically the hardest, from what I know. So this might be normal
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  Letsgetthatbread Member

  August 2020 35 karma

  I was able to improve my LR a lot from -8 to -1 to -4 by being more confident in my choices the early questions (1-12), selecting the choice and moving on. This let me have more time to tackle the more difficult questions which sometimes required me to spend over 2 minutes on them. It is true that the later LR questions are more difficult.

  If you are getting the last questions wrong due to insufficient time, work on timing strategies. But if you aren't getting them right in BR either then you should just keep drilling and practicing.
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  jpgreenstein Member

  August 2020 136 karma

  The way I improved significantly on the hard questions was I just made sets of the hard questions, did them timed, bombed them, and then spent a lot of time on blind review. Often times the hard ones are hard either bc a) the stimulus is super convoluted or b) the answers choices are there to confused you (or both if its really hard). Practice translating the hard stimuli and answer choices over and over until you understand.