Useful to practice LR questions from PrepTest 1-20?

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• Jason Zhang Alum Member

  June 2014 11 karma

  Thank you so much for telling me the importance of old LG games, and the most thrilling LG questions will be those I have no experience dealing with before..
  
  What about the old logical reasoning questions, especially those from PrepTests 1-20?
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  Will Edwards Alum Member Inactive Sage

  June 2014 175 karma

  While the older LR questions may be a little different (or hey, maybe very different), you will still be practicing the same skills needed to answer later LR questions. You are practicing your ability to quickly read and parse English, identify argument structure and validity, identify assumptions and weaknesses and recognize correct answer choices. These skills will transfer no matter how the question is structured. And if they are harder for you, then that's great really. Better to train harder than you will be tested.
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  joegotbored-1 Alum Member

  July 2014 802 karma

  Jason,
  
  I recently started drilling on old LR sections from PT 1-35 and I find it really useful. On weekends I do timed full PTs from 36-Now. On weeknights, I drill on old games and old LR. It helps with familiarity and keeps me sharp. I've noticed small, incremental increases in my average LR and LG sections on new tests and I think those increases are the result of both taking more and more new tests on weekends AND drilling on old sections on weeknights.
  
  I'm disinclined to remove one variable from the equation to see if my average stabilizes...because I want as much study time as I can get. That said, I do **feel** like the weeknight study of old LR sections is helping on the weekends.
  -Joe
• Jason Zhang Alum Member

  August 2014 11 karma

  Hi Joe,
  
  I just read this reply. I've been practicing older LGs and they've been helpful. I do think I have to start drilling older LR questions to get more practice.
  
  Thanks,
  
  Jason
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  SoCal Japorean Free Trial Member

  August 2014 147 karma

  If you have time to drill, then do all of them. It builds experience and familiarity. I do think that the answers are much more clear cut in 1-20 than in 60-70. I think that most of the "difficulty" is that the old PT's use language more formally than the newer PT's.
  
  -Just my 2 cents
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  Nilesh S Alum Inactive ⭐

  August 2014 3438 karma

  They are excellent for developing and drilling the core skills that you would use in LR