Satisfaction - 770 (Q 50, V 45)

I stopped doing the instant identification thing because it was a bad habit for me. I forced myself, by practice, to identify the type of error, if any, in every question and then look at the answer choices. In the answers, I was able to eliminate choices based on the MGMAT rules for the most part. Even idiom-based sentences had 2-3 clearly wrong answer choices based on one of the MGMAT rules or clarity/concision principles. I had the same strategy for evey SC question, whether the first or the 40th.


I was able to finish LSAT sections after doing some 6-7 sets and failing to complete each of them. My hit rate was always between 21 to 25 (85 - 100%). Towards the end, I made 1 mistake at the most.



GMAT does not typically have the LSAT-type Hard Logic/Deductive questions. The nearest GMAT equivalents are the ones where you are given statistics and then asked to infer something. The correct answer choice here is the one which can be directly derived numerically from the question stem. I'm talking about the ones where, for instance, it says - "Between 1979 and 1984, Croydon County's total income rose 4% while its manufacturing sector grew by 2.7%. In neighboring Cook county, ..."These ones are easy because you can quickly eliminate the answer choices which attribute causality or make generalizations such as "Manufacturing jobs are an important source of income..." etc.

For LSAT RCs, I averaged something like 10-13 minutes for a 60 line passage with 6 questions. So 2 min per sounds about right. As far as the "except" questions, it is just POE. I usually start with Choice E because most of these EXCEPT Qs tend to have the right answer near the end or so I felt. I'll try to take a look at that thread in a bit.