first, you're clearly overestimating the competition here; obviously, there isn't anyone who NEVER makes "silly mistakes".I have started to feel that there must be some basic difference between the brains of people who are able to focus 100% and never falter by making silly mistakes or are able to nail comlex CR questions 2.5 hours into the test and my brain.How do i learn to focus like that?
second, the issue here probably lies in finding the goal of the problem.
how often do you take the time to figure out exactly what you're looking for, before you set out looking for it?
that may sound like a stupid question, but, really, that's the issue with 99% of people who have trouble with RC and CR: they go "looking", without really having a clue what they're looking for in the first place!
for instance, take a look at #94 in the 13th edition OG CR. (I can't reproduce the problem here.)
In that problem -- before you even look at the answer choices -- you should have the following goal in mind: "I need to find something that's bad about building with bamboo ... and that pertains specifically to high land value."
THEN you go look at the choices.
if you have that kind of focus, then you should find that there really aren't any "complex" CR questions; there are just questions on which you aren't paying attention as well as you are on others.
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really, this is just the way you think about these situations on planet earth.
for instance, the U.S. tax code is thousands and thousands of pages long.
but, if i have a "detail question" -- such as "Am I allowed to take a mileage deduction for driving from this kind of place to that kind of place?" -- then i know exactly what i'm looking for... and so it's not very hard to find.
when it comes to detail questions here, i just take the same approach that i'd take in trying to answer a tax question.












