I notice that I tend to get a bunch of easier LR questions wrong, which is incredibly frustrating. A lot of the time, the question type/category varies, so it's hard to pinpoint exactly. According to the analytic feature, though, my weaknesses are weaken and flaw questions mainly. I've already done the Cambridge drilling packets for those and I have improved but not as much as I was hoping I would. What else can I do, not only for these specific types, but for my LR performance overall? I know I can get -2/-3 with enough practice and focus but the question is how do I get there?
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This advice applies to the whole test as well. Once you start truly understanding the stimuli you'll be able to start predicting answers, which will not only increase you accuracy, but also your speed.
If you haven't given the trainer a look, do so. It has a great intro into flaws, and it sounds like that's exactly what you need.
Also, if you're already into PTs, then after you do your BR and score the test, make a drilling section out of all the ones you got wrong both before and after BR. If you have PDFs you can do this easily with a PDF editor to copy and paste the questions into a Word or Powerpoint document until you have 25 questions and then bam there's a whole new challenging LR section for you to try.
Whatever you do, you don't want to sacrifice accuracy. You don't get points for being fast, so don't miss out on questions that you could and should have gotten correct.
Read the stem, draw a quick letter or two next to the stimulus to reinforce the question type (e.g.- "S" for strengthen, "PF" for parallel flaw") and so you don't need to read the stem again. Then read the stimulus. If it makes no sense, take a deep breath, recognize it might be a tough one and read it again. If you still don't get it, circle it and move on. This is not RC or LG so you really can't rely on the answers to aid your understanding whatsoever since each question is its own little world. You'll likely do this for 5-10 questions at first and when you go back after finishing the section to spend more time, remember that whatever approach you took the first time was most likely wrong, so be open to alternative interpretations.