Dream009
One of the challenges I am facing which made me postpone my exam was - I am not able to complete the verbal session. I am able to do only 16/18 in a span of 45 mins. WHat I have noticed is - its taking me 2.5 mins in a CR question to understand & mark the option. In RC I keep reading and re-reading the passage and I know the strategy is to structure and make a mentol map but I am unable to do so - hence I tend to take a bit long
If both CR and RC are taking a long time, there are really not many options except that you have to speed up, esp on the CR (that’s easier and faster to do). One rule that you should have is that you only read the CR once for most situations/questions. Train yourself to read the CR once.
Second way to speed up your CR is to answer the question in your own words first. This will save you a lot of time on about 50% of the questions (not 100%) but saving 1 minute on half of the CR’s is quite a bit of time.
Third would be RC’s - you MAY NOT re-read the passage. Do not re-read the passage. You read it one time and ONLY if you are looking for very specific details do you go back. Re-reading the passage should be banned and not allowed.
So do these 3 things when you practice next time for the next few days:
1. Try to Force yourself to read the CR only once and not-reread it in at least 50% of the situations (sometimes you have to re-read it)
2. Answer the CR in your own words first (biggest time gain)
3. Read the RC only once in 100% of the situations (with exceptions of specific detail questions which should be no more than 20% of the time and only a small section that you are double-checking, not re-reading)