I posted this in the Sept thread but maybe some experienced LSAT takers can chime in too!
When you guys get an RC passage that you feel like you have a solid handle of (maybe the first passage of the section), do you just fly through the questions on your "gut instinct?" My accuracy is awesome in RC (-0/-1 on a section) but my timing is atrocious. I will spend about 9-11 minutes per passage because I try to validate/invalidate every answer choice. I am wondering if I should trust myself more on the first two passages and slow it down on the second two - or perhaps trust myself on the passages I feel like I got and slow down on passages that I don't feel as if I have as great of a handle of.
This is solely in regards to the questions. I spend 2:45-3:30 on every passage reading it and am not going to speed up there.
Trusting your "gut" and RC Forum
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sfoglia
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Re: Trusting your "gut" and RC
What exactly is your idea of "gut instinct"? Are we talking, you don't even bother to go back, say, to the lines that a question stem references?
I can say that I generally take less care with reading comprehension, but my background is in nineteenth-century literature, so I'm used to reading dense material. I do make numerous notations in the margins so that I can jump back quickly when needed. We're talking considerable marginalia, lots of underlining, starring, abbreviations, arrows. And that, personally, helps to reduce my impulses toward proving/disproving/second-guessing/panicking, whatever.
I can say that I generally take less care with reading comprehension, but my background is in nineteenth-century literature, so I'm used to reading dense material. I do make numerous notations in the margins so that I can jump back quickly when needed. We're talking considerable marginalia, lots of underlining, starring, abbreviations, arrows. And that, personally, helps to reduce my impulses toward proving/disproving/second-guessing/panicking, whatever.
