When you know you cannot finish passage 4

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  Sami Yearly + Live Member Sage ⭐ 7Sage Tutor

  December 2016 edited December 2016 10806 karma

  Well if that happens I try to answer all the big picture questions as quickly as I can. You will be surprised how answering the big questions such as Main point, primary purpose, or passage organization can go super fast.
  
  Then I would focus on easy questions such as those where the question directly tells you to go and gives you a line reference.
  
  But in all I would say at this point of prep this is okay but if that keeps happening to you it does signify that you are not skipping the hard questions in other passages fast enough and you need to drill good skipping strategy in RC. It may also be that you are taking too long to read a passage or just to even answer the easy questions. So I would record myself and try to analyze what exactly is going on and do some drilling to fix that issue.
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  Cant Get Right Yearly + Live Member Sage ⭐ 🍌 7Sage Tutor

  December 2016 27902 karma

  It's definitely not an ideal situation, but there is a lot of damage control you can do with 5-6 minutes. You've got to read the passage quickly: Just read it, 2 to 3 minutes. Then just answer the questions without agonizing over anything. Read them and answer them, nothing else. If you have a little time left after that, you'll have to assess what is the most productive course of action from there. That's usually pretty clear though. The results may be a little rough, but before I got my pacing down on RC, I was always surprised how well I did in this situation. A rough once over on the last passage will definitely beat a 5-6 minute review on the previous 3 though. Just stay calm, don't panic, and get through it.
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  TheLoftGuy Alum Member

  December 2016 edited December 2016 698 karma

  I must admit that the 7Sage method of reading the passage once than answering the questions without going back REALLY works for me. That's why I feel like I killed RC because I got through all 4 passages and was comfortable with the material. But before I used this method I would read as fast as I could than answer as many as I could than spend the last 15 seconds guessing. My RC avg has improved 8+
• Alex Alum Member ⭐

  December 2016 23929 karma

  I second what @Sami and @"Cant Get Right" have said above. It's not ideal; but there certainly are strategies that you can implement to mitigate the amount of guesses you'll be forced to take.