How did you improve speed?

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• Cant Get Right Yearly + Live Member Sage ⭐ 🍌 7Sage Tutor

  December 2016 27900 karma

  Kind of depends on where you're at in your prep. For your last 5 or so PTs, what is your average timed score and BR score?
• rakinalikhan Alum Member

  December 2016 329 karma

  one time i would give you is after reading the question and stimulus, if you think/see that its going to take some time to figure out, skip the question and move on to the next one. point is you want to answer as many questions you know you can get right, and then worry about the questions that will take longer and/or are more difficult. helped me a lot
• danielznelson Alum Inactive Sage Inactive ⭐

  December 2016 4181 karma

  To be sure, developing strong and efficient habits for the test are crucial in developing your speed.
  
  But one of the biggest factors to improving your speed is simply understanding the test more, specifically the easier and more standard material. I think its a misnomer that speed should be improved through intentionally trying to be faster (very occasionally a correct strategy) or through magically finding the hardest questions to be very easy.
  
  Honestly, time is best improved upon when you're flying through what you're supposed to fly through, thus giving your more time for what will pretty much regardless be tough material to at least some extent. Again, this comes through an increased understanding of the test, not by forcing yourself to be faster.
• lawschoolstuff16 Alum Member

  December 2016 328 karma

  @danielznelson & @"Cant Get Right" -- My average timed score is in the 150s but my blind review score is mid-160s. The only questions I am getting wrong are the level 4 or level 5 ones.
  
  @rakinalikhan -- that's a strategy that I've been trying to use more often, especially towards the last few questions in LR sections or RC sections. But I've only started doing this yesterday, so we'll see how I fare.
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  MrSamIam Inactive ⭐

  December 2016 2086 karma

  In order:
  
  1) Figure out what's causing you to run out of time. If a particular question type is giving you trouble, drill it. If you're overthinking, work on that. If you're spending too much time upfront on certain questions, start skipping.
  
  2) Exposure. Take more PTs - once you're ready.
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  Cant Get Right Yearly + Live Member Sage ⭐ 🍌 7Sage Tutor

  December 2016 27900 karma

  It sounds like you're in a range where you need to both continue improving fundamentals as well as start developing timing strategies. For the fundamentals, this is just a guess, but make sure you're breaking down difficult stimuli grammatically. Oftentimes, it's the language rather than the logic that makes a question difficult. For section strategies, I think previous comments have been all over it. Don't let yourself get bogged down; skip questions that are taking too long. Also, you do need to fly through the easy questions. That means going into hunt mode when you know what the answer is of question types like SA, and it means not reading remaining answer choices when you find one you have high confidence on. You've got to trust your abilities on these and trade a little certainty for time. Hope this helps!
• lawschoolstuff16 Alum Member

  December 2016 328 karma

  @"Cant Get Right" @MrSamIam @rakinalikhan @danielznelson thank you all so much for your feedback and advice. I'm going to work on these suggestions and hopefully see improvement!