Improving LR Feels a Bit Like Whack-a-mole

ahnendc-1ahnendc-1 Member
in Logical Reasoning 642 karma

LR used to be my strongest section but because LG and RC have improved so much LR now seems to be what is holding me back from the mid-170s and looking for some advice.

My hypothesis is that it is because I have not taken that many actual PTs (14 in total over the course of 7 months of full time studying with a lot of those in the past couple of months. (That being said, I have seen a TON of LR material: EVERY SINGLE LR question from PT 6-36; 72-81 (used as individual sections) and then my 14 PTs on top of that).

Overall I think this was a really good strategy because it gave me a good foundation in the basics but what I seem to struggle with is that there always seems to be a new cookie cutter or trick or flaw that I wasn't quite familiar with such that I could not get it right under timed conditions. When I do a new section; my average for an LR section is -2.5 but the variance is what worries me; sometimes I'll go -1, other times I'll go -4.

Whenever I don't understand a question under timed conditions, I print it out, rip apart the logic of the stimulus, write out why each AC is incorrect and why the correct AC is in fact correct and if it is a new logical form that I am unfamiliar with I have a whiteboard next to my desk that I right down the logical form on so that I am looking at it all day; I also put particularly interesting questions into playlists and study the logic of the question from time-to-time. All to say, I think I am doing all of the right things but progress in decreasing the variance has been slower than what I would have hoped.

Any feedback or advice from others who might have had this problem before?

(Side note - I have also worked on timing strategies as well and think I have something that works for me so I don't know if that is the problem either)

Comments

  • ConstantineConstantine Member
    1334 karma

    If you haven't done BR via video chat then you should.
    After I b.reviewed one LR section via video chat, which took two days, my understanding of the test has improved more than for a month of previous work, and accordingly score.

  • ahnendc-1ahnendc-1 Member
    642 karma

    @Constantine - What do you mean a BR via video chat?

  • BigJay20BigJay20 Member
    438 karma

    @"ahnendc-1" said:
    @Constantine - What do you mean a BR via video chat?

    Let me know when you find out. I think he probably means zoom explanation with other test takers and explaining your mindset attacking the questions. I'm looking for study buddies,myself. I'm scoring mid-160s.

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