In need of a serious, desperate RC help...

[Aschematic]

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My DAT is coming soon and I am starting to get seriously desperate and depressed about RC. I have never finished a single RC practice on time. I always run out of time. I tried so many methods but none of them seems to work. I feel extremely helpless.

I tried reading the passage first before answering the questions.
The problem is that when I see the questions, I can't even remember if I read something remotely resembling the answer because of how dense the reading is. By this point, a lot of time has elapsed. So I always feel like I'm screwed.

I tried reading the questions first before reading.
When I read the passage, I either forget the questions or accidentally miss the answers in the passage while reading.

I tried search and destroy.
I found this unreliable because I realized that a lot of the questions intend to trick you by making it seem obvious, but actually has its clues spread all over the place.

I tried reading half the passage, answer half the questions, and so on.
I run into the same problem as the first one described above. When I see the questions, I just can't recall reading about them.

How do you guys even manage to finish your RC on time? I am extremely worried. Any suggestion would help tremendously. Thank you so much!!

 

[wantVCUdental]

hi, if your DAT is coming up in days, it's hard to improve, reading skills are built up over time. In your situation, maybe just focus on two passages, if you can get 30/50, your score will make the cut off and just fight for the points in the other sections.
good luck

 

[torque]

What I did was, rather than start reading the whole passage, look at the question first, and THEN find the corresponding paragraph.

I think that would work most of the time. Hope that helps.

 

[Aschematic]

Thanks for your reply. I guess I will have to keep trying out different methods.

 

[Flipper405]

As you're reading, you have to try to organize the article. Usually paragraphs are separated based on some subject, so if you can come up with a phrase summarizing what each paragraph is about, you can track down answers much more quickly. I agree to some extent about having to build up your reading skills over time, but going in to reading the article with the mentality of figuring out the organization should help. When you're reading, don't try to remember all the details. Just map it out.

 

[Aschematic]

Thanks for your advice. That does sound very reasonable.