Here's to everyone who plans on skipping Christmas dinner to study for this test! Y'all are the real MVP!!!
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Reading Comp Study Tip:
Logic Games Study Tip:Li'l Sebastian wrote:Rigo wrote:Cool on both fronts. Any RC memory tips, feel free to pass them along.
Doing grouping games now. I seem to remember conditional logic pretty well so that's encouraging. February is seeming more and more doable for me.
Get familiar with the process.
If you have excess time try the following:
Print out only the passages, not the questions. Answer the following quesitons in short answer format:
•Main Point
•Logic Pieces of the Argument
•Tone
•What Would the title be
•rewrite all the key terms in your own words
for comparison passages or passages where multiple view points are present also write out
•how they're the same
•how they differ
•what the authors/groups would say about the other
The Reading Comprehension section has questions that are way easier than the Logical Reasoning section, but the answer choices are what makes this section difficult. You have to know the answer before you ever EVER look at the choices.
Another great strategy is to cover all the answer choices with post it notes, and write in your own words what the correct answer choice is.
These are two excellent ways of breaking your habit of moving straight into the answer choice. (if you're having problems with reading comp but not logical reasoning this is probably why)
In reading comprehension you absolutely have to pre-phrase the answer because of how similar they are able to make the answer choices look. This can cause interference with what you read making you do worse on the rest of the questions. And the longer you spend thinking about answer choices that weren't in the passage the more time your memory has to both degrade and integrate those possible answer choices into a false memory of what you read.
This differs in LR because you are better able to pick out what did or did not happen just by scanning the stimulus. In RC you don't have that luxury, so it is imperative that you spend your time pre-phrasing, this will also help you move faster in the section because less time debating answer choices.
Li'l Sebastian wrote:They weren't weird.jlet0314 wrote:With the weird LGs this past December, same chance of that happening for Feb? Seems like it pops up once or twice every 10 exams.
Every single (and I mean every single one) test administration has people saying that they swore the game section was so unlike anything that had ever seen before they assumed it was the experimental.
Learning games is essentially you developing a "toolbox" of different methods you can use on test day.
You have to be able to adapt to anything they throw at you, and there are a lot of games that break the mold of grouping or linear.
Drill Games by type ONLY IN YOUR FIRST TWO WEEKS. After that I highly advocate drilling mixed sections. Also this breaks the bad habit of trying to put every game into a category before you even start to work it (and then being disappointed and wasting time when you figure out it doesn't fit neatly into your idea of what is a grouping game or linear game so you have to completely rewrite your set-up).
You really shouldn't give a shit what "type" of game it is. This is especially true since the logical difficulty of any game is completely independent of the game's type. And you're gonna shoot yourself in the foot if you go in on test day thinking "i hope they don't give me two grouping games" then you get two grouping games and you're on tilt now. Even though those were the easier games in the section!
