How much VR practice until improvement?

[sv3]

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Hi,

Just curious to see when any of you started to see improvement in your VR scores?

Granted I am impatient and only started 11 days ago (2-3 passages a day), I am pretty worried about not seeing any improvement. I took a baseline score before reading about what VR was all about and I scored the low end of 10. Since, I've researched tons of strategies and compiled a personalized list I thought would be best for me. So far, I'm having trouble executing it as my achilles is that I'm a slow reader so usually I just try to finish the passage in decent time (no more than 4 minutes). I'm hoping as this becomes easier i can execute on strategy more.

Anyway I started worrying that I'll run out of material before I see improvement so thought I'd post to see how long it takes....and if I should start looking for more (I currently have TPR and Ek)

thanks
sv3

 

[Norah89]

man I wish I had the answer for you.........I'm suffering from the same issue

 

[dapmp91]

you should get a base score after taking about 10-50 passages, or about 5 practice verbal tests, from there on you gotta refine your skills. This is just a general answer, everyone is gonna be different though

 

[sv3]

you should get a base score after taking about 10-50 passages, or about 5 practice verbal tests, from there on you gotta refine your skills. This is just a general answer, everyone is gonna be different though

Ah. I got my base without any passages, just did a full out test. Got a 10, barely, but since then I haven't improved even after reading on strategies. Perhaps the 10 was luck. You'd think I'd get better after knowing about VR and strategies that could help (when I got the 10 i didn't know about any main idea or author's p.o.v., etc). Nothing to do but keep practicing i guess.

thanks

 

[Norah89]

Ah. I got my base without any passages, just did a full out test. Got a 10, barely, but since then I haven't improved even after reading on strategies. Perhaps the 10 was luck. You'd think I'd get better after knowing about VR and strategies that could help (when I got the 10 i didn't know about any main idea or author's p.o.v., etc). Nothing to do but keep practicing i guess.

thanks

What strategies are you using.....if its Kaplan then thats why at least i think thats the case for me so im tried EK strategies and im improving just a little....i guess with time u should make up your own strategies cuz only you know whats best for you.

 

[sv3]

What strategies are you using.....if its Kaplan then thats why at least i think thats the case for me so im tried EK strategies and im improving just a little....i guess with time u should make up your own strategies cuz only you know whats best for you.

Yup I'm mixing and matching. Mostly Ek (which is just common sense) but a little bit of TPR. There's some good threads on this website that are worth looking at:

http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=206944

http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=509702

Spend some time going through those and pick and choose.

Right now I'm seeing results by keep my time spent on questions much lower than before. I now try to limit my time on questions to 30-45 seconds. That's where I was losing alot of time, not on the reading. Previously I thought my reading was too slow but in reality it was the questions slowing me down. Something to think about