Skipping for the win

AlexRexegerAlexRexeger Alum Member
edited March 2023 in General 178 karma

For the love of all that is holy please tell me how to skip questions. I can skip like nobody’s business with LG but I never skip any LR or RC question. I always finish my sections but I think this is really inhibiting me from getting higher LR scores because I sink the most time on hard questions and I’m noticing in BR that I’m getting a ton of easy ones wrong to make up for lost time. Any advice? #help

Comments

  • 1000001910000019 Alum Member
    3279 karma

    I think there are webinars on skipping strategies. You should look around for one if you want detailed advice.

    But here is what I did.
    - If the stimulus made no sense to me, I moved on.
    - If I thought the question type (specifically parallel reasoning) would be time consuming, I moved on without reading the passage first. I believe once I got better at those question types, I didn't need to skip them at all.

  • AlexRexegerAlexRexeger Alum Member
    178 karma

    I unfortunately do not have access to that webinar anymore because my access expired. Also, I did take a look at it and I didn’t really feel like it was necessarily that helpful. Maybe that’s just me.

  • Victor WuVictor Wu Alum Member
    661 karma

    For LR, potential reasons I will skip:
    1. I read the stimulas and don’t understand it.
    2. I crossed of all the AC.
    3. I used POE and was left with one answer choice I don’t feel confident about. I would put a dash next to it to indicate low priority.
    4. It’s a SA question. I know I can map it, but at that moment, I’m feeling panicky.
    5. I lost focus at the stimulus. I reread it and still can’t gain focus.
    6. I’m choosing between 2 AC and both sound good.

    Skipping should be a swift and confident decision. If you don’t know it at that moment, then you don’t know it. Better to bank time and use it later when you have a second look.

    Hope that helps.

  • samantha.ashley92samantha.ashley92 Alum Member
    1777 karma

    If I have to reread most of the answer choices more than once, I skip the question. If I've gone through my process of elimination and I've eliminated every answer choice, I skip it. If it just feels like it's going to take forever, don't even think about it; just skip it.

Sign In or Register to comment.