How to reduce 'time to solve' for CR Q's

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How to reduce 'time to solve' for CR Q's

by bgs4gmat » Sun Aug 19, 2012 11:17 pm
I have studied CR from Powerscore LR Bible and MGMAT LSAT CR and GMAT CR guide.

I like the MGMAT's concept of Argument Core (P --> C).
As suggested in Manhattan LSAT CR, I take abbreviated notes of only P --> C relationship in case of Assumption Family Q's and in case of non-Assumption Q's i take abbreviated notes to understand whats going on specially in Inference. With abbreviated notes my accuracy is close to 100%.

The problem is that i am taking ~ 2 minutes (plus minus 15 seconds) to solve a CR Q but with confidence and 100% accuracy. :-(

If i don't take notes the accuracy goes for a toss and i am hardly confident of choosing the answer :-(

I don't reread the argument or answer choice.

Any advice to reduce the time for CR?
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