Engr2012 wrote:
I used LSAT RCs for practice for my 3rd GMAT attempt as I had exhausted all the available official resources and I wanted to stick to other "official sources". As LSAT is another well recognized standardized test, I went with LSAT RC sets. I agree that LSAT RCs are longer and with more questions but I used to push myself to complete the reading of the passage and answering all the questions in 6-8 minutes. This helped me immensely in not only understanding longer and denser passages but also made me realize the benefit of picking the battles in GMAT. You have to be smart about how you approach the questions in GMAT. I made sure that all LSAT practice was done under timed conditions. I maintained an accuracy of 70-80% under timed conditions and later when I redid the RC passages from question pack 1, I never felt rushed. You will not find many LSAT passages with less than 5-6 questions per passage though. So either you can time yourself for 4 questions per passage or adopt what I did. You must evaluate different methods and only use the one that suits your needs. At the end of the day you will only be able to get to the correct answers confidently and accurately if
1. You understand the passage
2. You can use POE to arrive to the correct answer.
I am not saying that V34 to V44 jump in my scores was entirely due to LSAT passages but I for sure was able to do better time management in the 3rd attempt.
Hope this helps.
Hi,
Thanks a lot for responding to my post and providing valuable advice.
Currently I am spending about 13-15 minutes on a LSAT passage with 6-8 questions. I am spending about 4 mins (sometimes even more) to read a 55-65 lines passage and then about 1 -1:15 min per question. My accuracy for these passages fluctuates (sometimes I get all right) and I've noticed that when I don't understand the passage well enough, I tend to get a lot of questions wrong. But usually I get about 5 -6 out of 8 right. The problem comes when I solve the harder LSAT passages (see attached file for example). I couldn't understand the passage fully even after reading it twice. I don't know if it's just me or this is actually a hard LSAT passage. I totally understand that solving LSAT passages are really helpful in long term and helps with overall time management. I just don't know how to improve or what exactly is am I doing wrong. Here is my approach:
1) Paraphrase after reading every paragraph.
2) Map the entire passage
3) Check author's tone and opinion
4) Check contrast words
5) For specific details or inference questions, go to the passage after before reading the answer choices.
6) Use POE and ignore answer choices with strong words (like most)
Any suggestions on the overall approach? Also, did you use to solve a 6-8 question LSAT passage in under 8 minutes? How much time did you spend just reading the passage?
Thanks again for your response. I appreciate your help.
YT770
PS - My target score is 750+
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