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- Wed Oct 02, 2013 1:07 pm
#11645
Hello,
For logical reasoning, I first read both Powerscore bibles and practiced using its strategy, but recently I also learned about a new strategy from another company's book. The strategies differ slightly, in that it recommends a slightly different approach from Powerscore, which is to read the question stem first and then go onto the Stimulus. At first, it felt like reading the question stem first and then moving onto the stimulus worked better for me, but in some particular questions, (for example, where there are 2 related questions under one stimulus) it didn't really help.
The problem for me is that if I read the stimulus first and then the question stem, I find myself (except on the first easy questions) going back to the stimulus again, and also when I do it the other way around (when I read the question stem first and then read the stimulus) the good thing was that I knew what I was looking for in the stimulus. For example, if it was a flaw question, I would read the stimulus looking specifically for a flaw and I felt like it was helping me. However, the problem with this was that after reading the stimulus I also found myself going back to the question, and sometimes I was thinking about the "question stem" while reading the stimulus so it didn't help me concentrate.
It seems like both strategies are suitable to certain questions for me but switching back and forth does not seem like a good idea and confuses me more.
What would be a good way to solve this problem?
Thank you very much in advance!
Sincerely,
Sejin
For logical reasoning, I first read both Powerscore bibles and practiced using its strategy, but recently I also learned about a new strategy from another company's book. The strategies differ slightly, in that it recommends a slightly different approach from Powerscore, which is to read the question stem first and then go onto the Stimulus. At first, it felt like reading the question stem first and then moving onto the stimulus worked better for me, but in some particular questions, (for example, where there are 2 related questions under one stimulus) it didn't really help.
The problem for me is that if I read the stimulus first and then the question stem, I find myself (except on the first easy questions) going back to the stimulus again, and also when I do it the other way around (when I read the question stem first and then read the stimulus) the good thing was that I knew what I was looking for in the stimulus. For example, if it was a flaw question, I would read the stimulus looking specifically for a flaw and I felt like it was helping me. However, the problem with this was that after reading the stimulus I also found myself going back to the question, and sometimes I was thinking about the "question stem" while reading the stimulus so it didn't help me concentrate.
It seems like both strategies are suitable to certain questions for me but switching back and forth does not seem like a good idea and confuses me more.
What would be a good way to solve this problem?
Thank you very much in advance!
Sincerely,
Sejin
