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I find myself rarely diagramming LR questions (only for the hard parallel reasoning and double-checking). During PTs thinking it through in my head seems to be enough, however, I'm afraid that on test day my head is going to be clouded from nerves/nausea/feelings of doom. Diagramming seems to be a more secure/nausea-proof way of working through the questions. Am I getting into some bad habits?

No, you aren't doing it wrong. Practice like you play. You'll have nerves but you'll just need to settle them down on game day. Diagramming everything is a huge waste of time.

I only diagram for certain types of questions. For instance, I will ALWAYS diagram:

1. Questions with conditional statements
2. Parallel reasoning questions
3. Assumption questions (particularly sufficient ones, but these often are heavy with conditional statements)

For other questions, I didn't find diagramming necessary, but I always liked to put a fat slash mark between each premise. That way, the stimulus doesn't look like a nauseating blob, but rather a manageable 3-4 pieces. I found that this allowed me to analyze the stimulus much more quickly and made it less overwhelming.

bhan87 wrote:I only diagram for certain types of questions. For instance, I will ALWAYS diagram:

1. Questions with conditional statements
2. Parallel reasoning questions
3. Assumption questions (particularly sufficient ones, but these often are heavy with conditional statements)

For other questions, I didn't find diagramming necessary, but I always liked to put a fat slash mark between each premise. That way, the stimulus doesn't look like a nauseating blob, but rather a manageable 3-4 pieces. I found that this allowed me to analyze the stimulus much more quickly and made it less overwhelming.

I'm pretty green to this forum, but I believe TITCR. At least mine.