Hey everyone!
Decided to write in February again. Thought I was doing well with the BR method prior to writing in September. Managed to get down to about -4/5 per LR section (which is okay for my goal score) however I ended up losing several more points per LR section than expected on PT79.
Was hoping to get input on additional prep materials for this section? (I will continue to use the BR method in the meantime).
Comments
If you already know your weakness area and focused on them and also BR them thoroughly, I would suggest to watch J.Y. explanations for all LR questions in a each LR section you take from now on; you already have the Ultimate+ why not use it. I just recently started to watch all the LR explanations and find them useful, in most of them J.Y. shows how to eliminate cookie-cutter answer choices quickly.
My last but not least use the online stopwatch to push yourself to finish the section under 35 minutes so you can get back to harder questions. You can do so by taking LR sections from PT 1-35 (or LR sections from PTs you already took preferably PT70 and higher) and do them individually while using a timer with loop countdown function. Set the timer on 70 seconds and 25 loops when it is past 70 seconds circle the question choose an answer choice and move on, you will have 5 minutes extra time at the end of the section to go back to the circled questions.
Online Stopwatch with Loop-countdown
http://www.online-stopwatch.com/loop-countdown/
I hope this helps you.
@"Cant Get Right" I'm speechless. I re-did the sections today under proper conditions and made significantly less errors than I had the day of the test.There were a bunch of really silly mistakes I made on NA questions. I am suspecting the pressure forced me to misread in some way. If I usually have a pre-phrased answer (as was the case today), I specifically remember being blindsided on the test and being unable to come up with a single possibility. I know I went wrong by diving in head first out of fear for wasting time during the test. Thing is, I am really good about writing my PT's in test-style conditions and I wasn't overly anxious on test day either.