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*Rishab2409 writes:*
> For verbal the key is strategies rather than practice. Is extremely time-consuming and painful to just cram questions.
> Using proper strategies you can get pretty much all the easy and medium questions correct in CR and RC.
Idk if it makes sense - but can you suggest some strategies? That could help us score better.
I don’t know if it makes sense, it only makes sense if people use strategies but they’re very well known - answer the critical reasoning questions in your own words. That works almost for all easy and medium questions. They are very few exceptions.
For reading comprehension, he wants to read the passage only once and read it slowly and you want to read it for understanding of the purpose so not the fact but rather for the reason that certain words or paragraphs are written. Stopping after each paragraph and summarizing is also a part of that strategy.
My suggestion to anyone who is not scoring in the 95th percentile or higher, is to look up these strategies either on the forum or they are well documented in the
Manhattan books and a number of courses also have them. There’s one caveat however you must follow them exactly as they’re written if you decide to modify them that is the dumbest thing you can do. Imagine you buy an iPhone and then you decide that you want to put a keyboard on it or do you want a smaller screen or a bigger screen and you start taking it apart and modifying it. You have no idea what the end result will be and so the same applies to the strategies you have to follow them exactly.
These have been the same strategies for the last 20 years and they work. The other two components of strategic approach to verbal is to learn what is required for each question type for example what is the level of food required for strengthen question versus for must be true question.
The third piece of the puzzle is timing and making sure that you don’t spend more time than you have. And if you don’t have time you guess and skip and move on.
If you follow these three principles you should be able to improve your reading comprehension accuracy within about 30 minutes. It’ll take another day or two to learn about the scope questions in reading comprehension.
Critical reasoning Mel may take a couple days because there is a lot of question types that you have to learn.
You need to solve about 200 or 400 questions total. You should be able to see improvement happening daily and not weekly or monthly. If you didn’t see improvement today, you wasted a day and did something wrong. Be my guest and waste another day tomorrow or maybe another four weeks but my suggestion be is that you stop whatever you’re doing because it’s not working.
I have given very aggressive timing not to make anyone feel stupid or anyone feel that there’s a magic solution. Instead I’m giving you a very aggressive timeframe so you don’t waste time and if you’re doing something for a few days and you’re not seeing results, you need to switch and you need to change it and you need to look at yourself critically and see what else can you improve or how can you change your approach.
If you’re studying at midnight after work, that’s one red flag. No matter what you’re studying it’s not gonna work well after midnight. Again, feel free to prove me wrong that would be perfectly great with me but my money is that if you study before work you would perform better.
Again the main aspect should be put the most of your emphasis on the strategies and not on the number of questions that you’re solving also when you make a mistake because that is not normal for you to make a mistake and figure out why did you make it your expectation should be zero mistakes in medium and easy questions. If you make a mistake you need to classify and categorize it and find the root cause and ensure that you don’t make the same mistake again. If you’re solving 100 questions a day, you don’t have that ability so solve only 20.