Timing Issue

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• joegotbored-1 Alum Member

  January 2015 802 karma

  Your LG strategy is EXACTLY what I did in December after a crummy LG section in September. I went -3 in December which is precisely what I was averaging in my PTs while practicing between September and December.
  
  I made dead certain that I was perfect on the first 3 games and then used what I had left time wise for the 4th game. Another strategy I employed was to look for the easiest questions on the last game. This means I wrote out the rules into JY's Lawgic, then did the "acceptable list" question which is usually first, and then looked for must be true questions. MBT questions in LG tend to be less time consuming because you can easily eliminate wrong answers based on the answer to your first "acceptable list" question and, if you have time to create them, a few hypothetical boards that fit the rules.
  
  Once you've done the easy questions, you may have inadvertently stumbled onto the answer for another question, so scan quickly, if not, find a question where the position of at least one piece is defined for you (e.g., If W is in 2, then....) and try to solve as quickly as you can. When you hit 30 seconds left on your watch, fill in the remaining blanks with the same letter answer choice for each one (statistically this isn't supportable, but anecdotally, I always get at least one guess right when I do this).
  
  Obviously, the best way to do games is to just be better at them than I am. I struggled big time in games, so I was pleased to finally get to where I was only -2 or -3 consistently, even if part of my success was due to blind luck.
• Allison M Alum Member Inactive Sage

  January 2015 810 karma

  Have you been foolproofing games? Repeating games really helped me. I would also encourage you to try your hand at the early games (PTs 1-35) if you haven't already. They're generally tougher than the games we see today, so if you can foolproof those, you'll be more than ready for the February exam.