- Wed Aug 10, 2016 11:29 pm
#27750
Hello all, I would like to hear if you have any tips for improving my score.
I'm taking the upcoming September test, and have been studying about 15-20 hours a week since school let out in mid June.
My first practice test I scored a 160, and have been consistently in the 160-162 range over the last seven or so tests, scoring a 164 and 167 on two of them.
I've gone through the Bibles (twice for LG and LR) but I feel like I could be more thorough.
I have about 20 practice tests left that I plan on doing over the next six weeks before the test.
Now when I first started, the hardest and most intimidating thing for me was the LG section, but after going through the bible, I'm confident that I can successfully do 3.5 of the games on the test, as long as there are no "surprises", i.e. games I've never encountered, which happens some in the older practice tests.
On the RC, I'm consistently missing 5 or less, though it would be nice if I could get that down to 2/3 or fewer consistently.
But ultimately where I'm struggling is the LR. I'm feeling flustered because I can't seem to miss less than 10 total. Its frustrating because the basic concept of the questions are so simple and if I could get down to 4-6 total I could end up having a high scoring test, which is what I aspire to.
I'm at the point where on basically every question that I miss, it's my SECOND choice, or the answer that I choose my answer over that happens to be the one that is correct, which is incredibly frustrating. What's equally troubling is that every time I test, I attempt to keep especially focused on the questions, and read them correctly, but I can't seem to improve. Lastly, I have a weird tendency to MISS CONSECUTIVE questions (3 in a row, 4 of 5, things like that), and I tend to miss more at around the 20 question mark. I'll be going along with one or two missed, and I'll have a bad five question streak and it will kill my score; is there anything specific that I can work on that might be causing this?
I've begun to record the LR questions that I missed in order to spot patterns, and there seems to be an issue with precise vocabulary, i.e. mistaking "some" for "all" and vice versa.
Sorry about the length, but I just like to be thorough, basically what I'm asking is:
1) what general study strategy should I adopt (heavy on testing/heavy on studying or equal both ext)?
2) are there any advanced tips for how to improve on the logical reasoning questions? I would say that this is most important.
3) any advice on how to put the RC section all together and ace it?
4) how to get from 3.5 logic games to all 4?
Thank you so much for your help and patience in advance.
I'm taking the upcoming September test, and have been studying about 15-20 hours a week since school let out in mid June.
My first practice test I scored a 160, and have been consistently in the 160-162 range over the last seven or so tests, scoring a 164 and 167 on two of them.
I've gone through the Bibles (twice for LG and LR) but I feel like I could be more thorough.
I have about 20 practice tests left that I plan on doing over the next six weeks before the test.
Now when I first started, the hardest and most intimidating thing for me was the LG section, but after going through the bible, I'm confident that I can successfully do 3.5 of the games on the test, as long as there are no "surprises", i.e. games I've never encountered, which happens some in the older practice tests.
On the RC, I'm consistently missing 5 or less, though it would be nice if I could get that down to 2/3 or fewer consistently.
But ultimately where I'm struggling is the LR. I'm feeling flustered because I can't seem to miss less than 10 total. Its frustrating because the basic concept of the questions are so simple and if I could get down to 4-6 total I could end up having a high scoring test, which is what I aspire to.
I'm at the point where on basically every question that I miss, it's my SECOND choice, or the answer that I choose my answer over that happens to be the one that is correct, which is incredibly frustrating. What's equally troubling is that every time I test, I attempt to keep especially focused on the questions, and read them correctly, but I can't seem to improve. Lastly, I have a weird tendency to MISS CONSECUTIVE questions (3 in a row, 4 of 5, things like that), and I tend to miss more at around the 20 question mark. I'll be going along with one or two missed, and I'll have a bad five question streak and it will kill my score; is there anything specific that I can work on that might be causing this?
I've begun to record the LR questions that I missed in order to spot patterns, and there seems to be an issue with precise vocabulary, i.e. mistaking "some" for "all" and vice versa.
Sorry about the length, but I just like to be thorough, basically what I'm asking is:
1) what general study strategy should I adopt (heavy on testing/heavy on studying or equal both ext)?
2) are there any advanced tips for how to improve on the logical reasoning questions? I would say that this is most important.
3) any advice on how to put the RC section all together and ace it?
4) how to get from 3.5 logic games to all 4?
Thank you so much for your help and patience in advance.