Tarmac wrote:
I went from consistently scoring around 41V on practice tests to 48V on the actual test.
One question, scoring 40-ish, are you finishing with a lot of time left on the clock?
I wouldn't say A LOT of time, but definitely enough time (4-5 minutes) usually.
Thanks for the posts they seem like good strategies
I definitely find patterns in CR questions
some patterns I identified for example in assumption questions:
look for mostly simple answers that do not go far from scope, that do not contain any extraneous info that is not explictly mentioned in passage but also answers that do not repeat a fact in the question
and another pattern Ive found in the "If True" questions, look for choices that seem like they may be out of scope, but not too far out of scope. Answer choices that do not repeat any/all of the words in the passage. I noticed theylike to throw in choices that make people comfortable answering because it is close to the stem, but in reality, not what they really are looking for.
What RC note-taking strategy? For me I think this may take awhile on the actual test to write out. I try to read the passage slowly and understand in my head what the passage is saying and then answer the questions.
SC - I've definitely read through
MGMAT SC tons of times, however sometimes you think these are questions you will never get right no matter how hard you try. I think the big thing for SC is to understand the sentence logically. I think that is where a lot of the hard questions in SC go and something I should work on. A lot of times you can catch yourself looking atthe question on a word by word basis looking for errors, and not understanding the meaning of the question.
In CR, I definitely think this is my best area of Verbal, however sometimes its difficult to discern the meaning of certain words they throw out and you have to judge the extent of a phrase. Big things to look out for and to scrutinize are many, few, alll , some , none etc
Also know that each answer has to be AIRTIGHT. You just have to keep that in mind at all times and look at the question with a straight head with no extraneous info.
I also catch myself geting answers wrong because I see an assumption, and I answer it, in reality they were asking for a statement to weaken the argument, so that is just concentration more than anything.
Those have been my basic strategies I have been using to attack these problems. I mean 39-41 Verbal is great in and of itself, just wondering if I can jump to the next level. Sometimes you can get frustrated and think, okay, I hit my wall, I can try harder but sometimes you just don't get it.