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Speed in CR type questions

by happymanocha » Tue Jan 17, 2012 2:53 pm
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I am practicing 10 questions of CR from OG 12 everyday. I am taking almost 24 minutes to complete these questions and accuracy is somewhat around 80%. Though these are relatively easy questions as per BTG. How can i improve my speed for these type of questions?
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by tpr-becky » Wed Jan 18, 2012 5:11 am
Do you have a systemized plan for approaching each type of CR question (in my mind there are 8 types). a plan would involved quickly recognizing the type of question, knowing and achieving the goal in reading the passage (for instance in Asumption questions your goal is to find the conclusion and premises). Knowing what you need to do to predict an answer and then finally having a standard of which type of answers should be eliminated.

If you already have a system in place then the next step is review. too many students simply answer questions, find their percent and move on. In an ideal environment a student should spend at least as much time reviewing the question as they did taking the question and in most cases review should be double or triple as you analyze the type of question, how answer choices were written and how the logic leads to the correct answer.

Hope that helps,

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by happymanocha » Wed Jan 18, 2012 4:51 pm
Not really. I understand the different type of questions but do not have different plans to attack them. Though i learned some techniques for solving some type of questions but not sure how they can help me increasing my speed. I am much more concerned about the speed rather than accuracy or CR section itself.
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by tpr-becky » Wed Jan 18, 2012 5:07 pm
If you don't have a consistent system I would certainly put one in place. They do help for accuracy but they also help for speed becuase if you can put yourself on a track and you know what the steps are you can be faster and more efficient at solving the problems. I think this is a common problem that students work for accuracy and then can't figure out the speed and in my experience it is because they are treating every question as if it were something new, and not being as efficient as possible.

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by AbhiJ » Thu Jan 19, 2012 1:31 am
You may want to refer Powerscore CR for developing a plan to attack each question type.
For developing speed there is only one way - practise. You have OG12, OG V2 for practise - you can solve each 2-3 times without remembering the answers. After that you can refer to LSAT CR questions.
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