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 Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2008 4:48 pm Post subject: What is your speed of solving CR with high accuracy ? |
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I just finished the 50 practice questions in CR with 43 correct. lack of attention in a couple . rest 5 were really hard...
I took an average of 1 min 50s to 2 min approx for each question.. I think it's not fast enough. I am not sure if this is an area where one can increase the speed by leaps and bounds...
I just want to know if i am particularly slow and how are other people doing on it ? So what's your speed ? |
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Can you describe your approach to attacking CR questions? Maybe sharing this can give us some insights on how to improve your speed...
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TkNeo
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| beatthegmat wrote: | | Can you describe your approach to attacking CR questions? Maybe sharing this can give us some insights on how to improve your speed... |
I read the question first so i know what to look for. If its an assumption Q, or strengthen or weaken then as i read the passage i try to find assumptions ...
If i can find out the assumption i look for it in the answer choices. Otherwise i go through each answer choice and see if it was an assumption...
But if it's an inference question then i just read the passage trying to grasp the evidence and conclusion. Then i read each answer choice to see if it can be an inference ! |
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This seems like a good approach. Have you found your pacing improve as you've gone through more and more practice sets? Pacing takes a lot of practice...
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TkNeo
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| beatthegmat wrote: | | This seems like a good approach. Have you found your pacing improve as you've gone through more and more practice sets? Pacing takes a lot of practice... |
Yeah the average has considerably improved over time without affecting the accuracy.. However thats only for the questions that are not in the "very hard" category. For those hard questions i don't think i am doing as well both in terms of time and accuracy. I just blank out on those ... May be i reach my mental ability when it comes to those extra hard ones... |
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