Missing Easy ones, Better with Harder Questions Forum

[Lying Lawyer]

OK, so I don't understand. I am extremely frustrated. This has happened to me with Strengthen, Justify and Weaken type questions. I will nail all the level 1 questions. Sometimes I miss one because I get on a roll and think they are easy. It's basically an error of me getting full of myself. I can fix that. They seem so easily where I can often predict the answer. Then I get to level 2 and I start missing a bunch. I can miss like 40% of these. I don't understand. However, when I get to level 3 I do much better, about 80%. I don't understand. For whatever reason I just don't seem to be making the right deductions and I make bad assumptions. I don't know if I'm overanalyzing them or approaching them too lightly. Any ideas or suggestions?

[PeanutsNJam]

OK, so I don't understand. I am extremely frustrated. This has happened to me with Strengthen, Justify and Weaken type questions. I will nail all the level 1 questions. Sometimes I miss one because I get on a roll and think they are easy. It's basically an error of me getting full of myself. I can fix that. They seem so easily where I can often predict the answer. Then I get to level 2 and I start missing a bunch. I can miss like 40% of these. I don't understand. However, when I get to level 3 I do much better, about 80%. I don't understand. For whatever reason I just don't seem to be making the right deductions and I make bad assumptions. I don't know if I'm overanalyzing them or approaching them too lightly. Any ideas or suggestions?

There is no level 2 or level 3. There are a few questions that are very easy, closer to the beginning, and there are questions that are very hard, closer to the end. It's not a linear progression though. The existence of varying difficulties is to funnel people into a normal distribution. That doesn't mean the last question is the harder, nor does it mean the last 1/3 are the hardest.

My tip is don't try to make deductions. You're not Sherlock Holmes. Think of yourself as an editor; you're looking for errors when the stimulus has a flaw/gap in reasoning, and you're an engaged reader when you're asked "most support" or some other question.

[Lying Lawyer]

When I say "level 1" and "level 2" I mean as her Cambridge. They separate their questions based on difficulty.