Double-Checking in LG? Forum
- Precessional
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Double-Checking in LG?
Unlike the RC or LR components of the LSAT, correct answers of LG are clear-cut. If Bob sits in chair 2, he sits in chair 2-- there would never be a slightly better answer.
That said, is it good practice to go through all answer options even after having picked a correct one?
For instance, assessing options from (A) to (E), I may have a fairly-certain answer by (C). Should I go ahead and mull over (D) and (E) as a just-in-case?
The redundancy of going through all answer choices in LG is a clear trade-off between time and increased confindence of correctness. I understand that practice would vary with level of LG-mastery, I'm just wondering about personal approach and thinking.
That said, is it good practice to go through all answer options even after having picked a correct one?
For instance, assessing options from (A) to (E), I may have a fairly-certain answer by (C). Should I go ahead and mull over (D) and (E) as a just-in-case?
The redundancy of going through all answer choices in LG is a clear trade-off between time and increased confindence of correctness. I understand that practice would vary with level of LG-mastery, I'm just wondering about personal approach and thinking.
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Re: Double-Checking in LG?
This would waste way too much time. The only time I rechecked was if I wasn't quite positive I had the rules down 100% and the first question or two would conclusively prove my understanding correct or wrong.
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Re: Double-Checking in LG?
On my actual, I finished all four games in around 20 minutes or so. I just had a great day and smiled the whole time, not believing how good it was going. Then I went back to check them over. I re-checked each game. But I misread a question and erased by diagram for that question, drew another one based on the misreadings, and changed my answer key. Needless to say, I got it wrong. Lesson: be careful in checking over your answers on the LGs.
- kazu
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Re: Double-Checking in LG?
I always did this, even when I was sure that C (or whatever) was correct, because I found out that if I discovered another "right" answer in D or E, it was due to my getting an inference wrong or making a stupid mistake when writing down the diagram (writing A > B as B > A or something).Precessional wrote:Unlike the RC or LR components of the LSAT, correct answers of LG are clear-cut. If Bob sits in chair 2, he sits in chair 2-- there would never be a slightly better answer.
That said, is it good practice to go through all answer options even after having picked a correct one?
For instance, assessing options from (A) to (E), I may have a fairly-certain answer by (C). Should I go ahead and mull over (D) and (E) as a just-in-case?
The redundancy of going through all answer choices in LG is a clear trade-off between time and increased confindence of correctness. I understand that practice would vary with level of LG-mastery, I'm just wondering about personal approach and thinking.
Like you said though this really depends on how much time you have, and why you usually get questions wrong. LG was my strong section - I steadily got -0s in PTs, and I usually finished a section in 20~30 minutes. The only times I didn't get a -0 was when I made the above stupid mistakes. Which I was able to get rid of by checking all answers.
edit for grammer mistake.
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- glucose101
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Re: Double-Checking in LG?
My first instinct, and Kaplan's steadfast rule, is to move on once you get to the answer. But as the poster above me indicates, sometimes there are two correct answers, and you sometimes you have only reached the first.
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Re: Double-Checking in LG?
glucose101 wrote:My first instinct, and Kaplan's steadfast rule, is to move on once you get to the answer. But as the poster above me indicates, sometimes there are two correct answers, and you only reached the first.
The above-poster said no such thing. Merely that the indication of two correct answers given one's diagram/inferences signifies that something is wrong with one's diagram/inferences.
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Re: Double-Checking in LG?
"I found out that if I discovered another "right" answer in D or E"
Clearly you must've diagrammed something wrong though if you don't have the correct answer.
Clearly you must've diagrammed something wrong though if you don't have the correct answer.
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Re: Double-Checking in LG?
You are correct.sumus romani wrote:glucose101 wrote:My first instinct, and Kaplan's steadfast rule, is to move on once you get to the answer. But as the poster above me indicates, sometimes there are two correct answers, and you only reached the first.
The above-poster said no such thing. Merely that the indication of two correct answers given one's diagram/inferences signifies that something is wrong with one's diagram/inferences.