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hukchobo

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trap answer questions on LR

Post by hukchobo » Tue Jul 16, 2013 1:00 am

i get suckered into what seem like "so obvious its suspicious" type of answers

can anyone share their wisdom about these? any trends and or tendencies?

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alexrodriguez

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Re: trap answer questions on LR

Post by alexrodriguez » Tue Jul 16, 2013 1:40 am

Study more.

The traps eventaully become easy to spot and easy to eliminate.

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Re: trap answer questions on LR

Post by kiyoku » Tue Jul 16, 2013 8:30 am

At a certain point, I began to realize that most of their tricks must always be from the same pool of thoughts.

In the end, the test is standardized after all. So nowadays I realize that you need to familiarize yourself with the patterns and some the key words that are of great importance to the test.

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Re: trap answer questions on LR

Post by bp shinners » Tue Jul 16, 2013 4:09 pm

A often-broken, but generally applicable rule of thumb:
Questions 1-15: If an answer seems really obvious, it's probably right
Questions 16-End: If an answer seems really obvious, it's time to double-check it

Really broad rules, but they hold up on average.

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