Another reading strategy

[mightyrat]

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So in an attempt to raise my reading score, i came up with this "ghetto" strategy for the reading...its probably so silly that most of you wont even consider it, but here me out.

I am in no way reaching for the 30 on the reading, not even close to it, just like a 18-20 on it would be more than great for me, so here is my strategy:

Spend the most time with the passages that have 17 questions each, one passage will have 16 questions. And when you do those passages make sure to get every question right. I believe the reason why people get the questions wrong is because they are too worried about not finishing in time or just gave up to back for the answers. Now this takes about 27-29 minutes for each passage, leaving you with 2-6 minutes for the last passage, in which...and dont lash out on me just yet...guess straight C's on the questions. Chances are you will get 3-5 right.

Assuming that you get the first 34 questions with the addition of the 3-5, that will give you a 20 for the reading...for MOST sections!!

The thing is, this sounds good in theory, that you actually perfect two passages with the time you got, my concern is how practical is it?

So far, i practiced two Crack Dat reading exams with this strategy but my scores were pretty crappy (16s ) but keep in mind that CDR isnt like the real thing that much...there will be a ton more search and destroy on the real exam.

I would like some feed back on this strategy and if you think you can tweek it up some more that would be awesome.

Again ill be VERY happy with an 18-20ish for the reading 🙂

 

[thedarkhorse]

So in an attempt to raise my reading score, i came up with this "ghetto" strategy for the reading...its probably so silly that most of you wont even consider it, but here me out.

I am in no way reaching for the 30 on the reading, not even close to it, just like a 18-20 on it would be more than great for me, so here is my strategy:

Spend the most time with the passages that have 17 questions each, one passage will have 16 questions. And when you do those passages make sure to get every question right. I believe the reason why people get the questions wrong is because they are too worried about not finishing in time or just gave up to back for the answers. Now this takes about 27-29 minutes for each passage, leaving you with 2-6 minutes for the last passage, in which...and dont lash out on me just yet...guess straight C's on the questions. Chances are you will get 3-5 right.

Assuming that you get the first 34 questions with the addition of the 3-5, that will give you a 20 for the reading...for MOST sections!!

The thing is, this sounds good in theory, that you actually perfect two passages with the time you got, my concern is how practical is it?

So far, i practiced two Crack Dat reading exams with this strategy but my scores were pretty crappy (16s ) but keep in mind that CDR isnt like the real thing that much...there will be a ton more search and destroy on the real exam.

I would like some feed back on this strategy and if you think you can tweek it up some more that would be awesome.

Again ill be VERY happy with an 18-20ish for the reading 🙂

it would be very tough for you to get the 1st two passages completely correct, even with that time allotted... so thats a bad strategy

 

[MowgliR]

Yeah I agree. It's really risky.

 

[gigawatt]

You should be spending 20 minutes per passage, answering as many of the easy questions as possible and skipping a few of the hardest ones if you have to in order to stay on pace.

Spending more than 20 minutes on a passage becomes a case of diminishing returns. Once you've spent enough time to get right the questions that you're going to get right, extra time is basically a waste (or at least really, really not worthwhile). If you've already had time to go through all the questions, time is not what is keeping you from a perfect passage. If it's a question you're not going to get, then spending an hour on it won't help any.

What you lose in not even being able to read the third passage and answer the easy questions that go with it makes that strategy completely worthless. I would strongly advise against it.

 

[mightyrat]

Thanks for your replies guys!!

I know its very risky, but the thought i guess of perfecting two passages and getting additional questions right intrigued me. The thing is im getting a bit desperate because i tried a lot of reading strategies, but nothing really works right, im not improving that much. I know the exam isnt like topscore that much because if it was i would have gotten a 21 on it last time, but those damn author/tone questions got me last..."what is the author's tone for the first 12 paragraphs" .... i read that question and literally laughed in my exam.

Again i would be grateful for the 18-20 range on reading...just got to keep practicing i guess. 😕