Accuracy Versus Speed PT's

raihma.ijaz277raihma.ijaz277 Core Member
edited August 13 in Logical Reasoning 6 karma

I’ve done a few prep tests, and my actual score usually ranges from 150 to 160. My blind review score, though, is around 170. When I do timed drills, especially for four-star and five-star questions, I usually get only a few right or most of them wrong. But during blind review, I get almost all of them right, or sometimes just one wrong.

At this point, I know my issue isn’t comprehension. It’s timing.

If I focus on finishing within the time limit, I make dumb mistakes. But if I focus on accuracy, I often spend too much time on certain questions. Sometimes it’s because I’m unsure about an answer that’s actually correct, and other times I just can’t finish all the questions.

Do you have any strategies? I understand that comprehension is the key to improving speed, and I’ve been working on that for months. I see improvement only in blind review or with the easier one- and two-star ones and no major improvement in how quickly I can get through the harder questions during timed sections.

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  • l0bstah_roll207l0bstah_roll207 Core Member
    128 karma

    One thing to try is if a question feels too hard or you're spending too much time on it, skip it and see if you can come back to it in the end. This way you'll spend more of your time on the lowest hanging fruit so-to-speak.

    Also, continue to do a mix of untimed drills of more challenging questions (3-5) so you build that conceptual understanding as well as timed drills with a mix of questions so you can improve your strategies for timing like getting through the easier questions in or under target time (you should see this in your analytics), skipping like I mentioned above, and just efficient strategies for getting through more difficult questions.

    This is a hard test, for me (I PT in high 160s, low 170s with BR between 173 and 180) it took a lot of practice over several months.

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