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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.

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.