So I have finished the curriculum and I have noticed that Im still very weak on games, and I don't feel comfortable enough to start PTs because I'm horrible at games still. Would it be more beneficial to spend another week or 2 to maybe watch and do all the lectures in the curriculum for games again? That's the only thing that's stopping me from PTing. I initially wanted to have 4 months of PTing... But in the long run if I spend another two weeks relearning how to do games for the second time by watching the lectures over again for each game type and doing the fool proof method again then it will click, and I'll still have 3 and a half months to left to PT until June 7th which is plenty of time right? Otherwise I'll just bomb game sections on PTs and it will go to waste.
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I tended to think the same as you in the beginning (games are also my nemesis) - "once I get better at these games in the curriculum, I'll be better at the rest of them" - and I did, but only by a little. I had done PT 74 as a diagnostic (I know, stupid) and missed half the games section, so 2 months later, after doing the curriculum, I thought - I'll own this now, I can do all the games in the curriculum, I know how these grouping things work, let's do it. I still missed about a quarter of the questions because the knowledge wasn't second nature yet.
Second nature needs practice and time. The sooner you start, the more you'll get of both.
The 1-35 set has 140 games, so to go through all of them once in 2 weeks you'd need to do 10 a day. To do them 4 times, you'd need to do 40 a day, which won't happen because you'd go crazy. You know how much time you have to dedicate to this, so only you can tell what's feasible, but you should start drilling sooner rather than later and see how it goes. Reassess after two weeks - if you've made good improvements in speed and accuracy, then keep drilling until you've completely proofed the bundle and maybe think about starting PT'ing in parallel. If it's still really sluggish, the dreaded "you might need to postpone June" might become a possibility.
But you've got to start somewhere.
Start with PT 1, do game 1, watch the video, do it again, repeat with games 2-4. Time yourself with a stopwatch and see how much time you shave off the second time. Do all four games separately the next day. Then a week later do them as a section and use a timer set at 35 minutes.
Do this with a PT or two per day and track the cycle so once you get going you'll be able to know where you're at. And it sounds like a lot but really if you're doing the third try without watching the video and the fourth try as a full section it won't take up very much time at all.
Don't just go through the motions when you do each game whether it is the first, second, third or fourth time. Learn from them and let them reveal the common patterns that repeat throughout.