Any tips for not getting rocked by 1 passage every RC?

bastod13bastod13 Core Member
in Reading Comprehension 58 karma

Basically, im in the range now of trying to get my LR average from -6/-5 to the -4 range, and my RC is also holding me back, Im consistently get -6 to -8 range every RC section almost singlehandedly because I get rocked my 1 passage. Ive been trying to fix my timing issues on RC and its been helpful, but on my last PT i didnt leave enough time to really get at a passage, and it was in this 5 star passage I saw a common trend with my other PTs. I consistently get maybe 1 or 2 questions wrong on the easier passages, and on the 4 and 5 star ones ill get almost every single question wrong, what did you guys do who had a similar problem?

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  • SufferingfromSufficientConditionSufferingfromSufficientCondition Core Member
    355 karma

    General advice without knowing more information:

    Do you get almost every single question wrong on the passage just when it's in a timed section? Untimed? Stand alone passage? You mention timing to be an issue, so it'd be helpful to know if you still have trouble with it if you eliminate that aspect.

    Psychologically you have to treat the 5-star passage the same as a 1-star passage: apply the same skills, don't stress just because you know or think that it is more difficult.

  • bastod13bastod13 Core Member
    58 karma

    @SufferingfromSufficientCondition said:
    General advice without knowing more information:

    Do you get almost every single question wrong on the passage just when it's in a timed section? Untimed? Stand alone passage? You mention timing to be an issue, so it'd be helpful to know if you still have trouble with it if you eliminate that aspect.

    Psychologically you have to treat the 5-star passage the same as a 1-star passage: apply the same skills, don't stress just because you know or think that it is more difficult.

    I'm not sure. I've never really operated under an untimed drill before, any non hard capped drill i still try to treat it like it is; definetly something I can try.

    It is most definetly a physcological thing too, I find that I either understand a passage really well or I dont understand it at all, then I get to the hard questions on the hard passage, and let those ACs shape what I discerned of what I read, and then probably am operating under a very false interpretation of the passage. What I recently realized was that my timing was way off because I was writing too much, and on my most recent preptest I saw that I was making good time, and thought I was ahead on time, which I wasn't i was right on time, and started dragging my feet, getting me to the point where Im finishing reading a 5 star passage quickly with 4 mins to answer 7 questions, which definetly tied into a poor preformance.

    im more 'concerned' about how people get over the mental hurdle of reading what the passage says, and knowing that I have no idea what I just read and going into the questions to not get every question wrong

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