force5 wrote:@ajank- great views. Thanks for sharing.
The problem here is that i am still getting a lot of RC questions wrong besides wasting a lot of time on them. I saw a lot of students and faculty too making maps. But the problem is that i am unable to use them? when it comes to solving a question i dont even think about the map and even if i try to , i cant make a head or tail out of it.
My question is What can be done? should we use maps or not? and if yes then how? how to get back to the map that u have made and find the answer?? since map is never too good to answer any question. The map cannot have all the facts that are mentioned in the passage. hence when i want to answer a question its of no use. and i am forced to go back to the original passage. Because of this i end up wasting a lot of precious time just toggling between the passage and question.
i would really request all high scorers and in RC and faculty to put in their views and suggest how should we go about it.
Hey force , i can very well understand what you are going through , neither i am high scorer nor an expert , so pick the points that helps you leave the rest , dn't fret on the ways that are not helping you .
First of all while talking about RC , either one is naturally good at it as most of high scorers are , just my observation or one has to sharpen the saw and it will take time .I have higlighted some of the queries you have metioned , going to them one by one .You have mentioned about timing , well i would suggest to go for accuracy and then for timing . We have two issues to face at RC front that are obviously accuracy and timing , dn't try to juggle two problems at the same time . Just put on the clock and forget about it , check your accuracy by practicing some official source RC and then emphasize on timing .The similar situation was with me too , i was fretting so much on time that that my accuracy level was around 50% .
About maps , its just a tool to help in efficient performance , don't get too much influenced by the process of operating and the final output . If the process is not helping you then look for the way that helps you like rohu is doing awesome without maps , his accuracy is also good
. I use maps to make it an active reading otherwise i read passively , i never refer back to maps while solving questions , also as suggested by many expert such as Ron , Vivian , donot fall in love with passage and details . An analogy , if you are driving through a unknown area in city , what would you do ? Remember landmarks , may even jot it down on paper . When next time you visit that area , max times you recall by what you had mapped in mind and dnt need to refer back to jotted matter . Its just the same landmarks of passage are wordds like however , since , example etc . Vivian follows a gr8 approach of writing the zest of para with "to" that is intent of author while writing passage . Ron suggests writing the views or facts that are infered not explicitly written in passage , one gr8 analogy he made and told in some post that imagine you have been given limited ink to jot notes so write down only the imp things not the one in passage , that is waste of time and ink . Its is just my opinion from my experience , fight with RC is on .One needs to have a strategy that is personalised , because what works for A might not work for B . Donot rely on bookish strategies devise your own .
Hope that helps .
