Guessing on one question for each Verbal passage ?!

[kabtq9s]

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Guys

Please correct me if I am wrong, but I figured out .. (based on a very rough estimation) that one can manage to miss 2 questions on every verbal passage and still make a 10 for the Verbal Section

If this is true .. will it be "safe" to .. randomly guess (without reading the q) on only one question (say.. the longest question) for each verbal passage (in order to save time) and still manage to get a 10 or a grade close to it for the Verbal Section??

I am only considering this idea as a last resort because I rarely ever finish my verbal sections on time and skipping the longest question (I will still put an answer for it though) in each passage will really help me out

What do u guys think 😕.................... 👍 OR 👎

 

[vandyam]

Yeah I definitely say no. Timing is something that can be perfected w/ practice. The main reason I say no way is because on a hard passage you might miss more than one. Secondly, I don't think that conversion is right. Are you talking about Kaplan VR passages? B/c every exam is different, but it doesn't sound right to me that you can miss 14 and still get a 10. Though I'm still in the middle of my studying so I could be wrong..

EDIT: Ya, I just looked around and I believe 6-8 questions missed on the VR (not Kaplan though, which is very different in verbal than AAMC, etc.) equates to a 10, so I'd just practice timing is I were you.

 

[skyNice]

Guys

Please correct me if I am wrong, but I figured out .. (based on a very rough estimation) that one can manage to miss 2 questions on every verbal passage and still make a 10 for the Verbal Section

If this is true .. will it be "safe" to .. randomly guess (without reading the q) on only one question (say.. the longest question) for each verbal passage (in order to save time) and still manage to get a 10 or a grade close to it for the Verbal Section??

I am only considering this idea as a last resort because I rarely ever finish my verbal sections on time and skipping the longest question (I will still put an answer for it though) in each passage will really help me out

What do u guys think 😕.................... 👍 OR 👎

Not a good idea particularly when you are bound to be stressed during the exam.

 

[G1SG2]

Guys

Please correct me if I am wrong, but I figured out .. (based on a very rough estimation) that one can manage to miss 2 questions on every verbal passage and still make a 10 for the Verbal Section

If this is true .. will it be "safe" to .. randomly guess (without reading the q) on only one question (say.. the longest question) for each verbal passage (in order to save time) and still manage to get a 10 or a grade close to it for the Verbal Section??

I am only considering this idea as a last resort because I rarely ever finish my verbal sections on time and skipping the longest question (I will still put an answer for it though) in each passage will really help me out

What do u guys think 😕.................... 👍 OR 👎

Yeah, missing 2 on every section would translate to missing 14 questions. That'll give you a raw score of 26/40, which will probably be a 7. Apparently, this is the one section where you have to be almost perfect in order to get a 10. No flexibility here.

 

[Baylor83]

Yeah, missing 2 on every section would translate to missing 14 questions. That'll give you a raw score of 26/40, which will probably be a 7. Apparently, this is the one section where you have to be almost perfect in order to get a 10. No flexibility here.

Plus you may end up doing worse if you don't answer all of the 26 questions correctly.

 

[SuperSaiyan3]

Yeah, missing 2 on every section would translate to missing 14 questions. That'll give you a raw score of 26/40, which will probably be a 7. Apparently, this is the one section where you have to be almost perfect in order to get a 10. No flexibility here.

i second this.

i got 15 wrong on my free practice exam by kaplan and that gave me a score of FIVE. so i don't even understand what you're smoking when you say you can get 2 wrong each and still score over 10.

 

[DrDre2001]

Don't do it.

When you have already read the passage, half your work for the question is done. So, if you skip a question, it is like you did half of the work for that question for nothing.

 

[DamienPro]

Don't do it.

When you have already read the passage, half your work for the question is done. So, if you skip a question, it is like you did half of the work for that question for nothing.

And make sure you don't leave any question unanswered before moving to the next passage.

 

[Doodl3s]

Don't do it.

When you have already read the passage, half your work for the question is done. So, if you skip a question, it is like you did half of the work for that question for nothing.

THIS 100%.. if you read the WHOLE passage and understand the reason every paragraph was there, and what the author thinks of everything he is saying... it should take you literally 10 seconds to answer any question! (maybe a little longer for the detail ones where you have to go back) it sounds a little more like you have trouble with that first part of reading the passage! IN which case it may help to do a few passages where you read them slowly and map it out, dont time yourself. and then as time goes on you'll slowly be able to forgo the mapping and you can start timing yourself again. GL

 

[akaVonk]

Practice, practice, practice is the way to go with VR. As vandyam said, 6 to 8 wrong on an AAMC is about a 10. The best I ever did on an AAMC full length was an 11, and I missed 5 on that particular one. The rest of my Verbal scores were usually around 8-10, and I got 10 on my actual.

If you're using passage mapping as part of your approach to Verbal, try practicing some passages (or a full-length, if you need to) WITHOUT writing a map, or writing down no more than 3 to 5 words per paragraph that will indicate some general theme or issue that you might revisit after reading the questions. I struggled with VR for a while, and when I ditched passage mapping, I got to a point when doing practice full-lenghts where I could finish the whole section AND questions with about 10 min to spare. The extra time is kinda a blessing and a curse...it's hard to go back and read whole passages as if you were going to re-do them entirely, but it can help if you were torn between two answer choices for a particular question or several questions. On the actual test, I didn't have this extra 10 mins...probably more like 1, maybe 2 tops, since I was definitely more nervous and wary of the fact that each question could make or break my score. From what I've seen/heard, after 10, getting one or two questions right/wrong can make the difference between getting an 11, 12 or higher, so it's kinda hard to go on a mission to rock the VR section.