which technique is more better?

[batista_123]

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which technique is "more better?"

the "3 rounds" technique.
*Go thru the whole section, doing all the easy problems first. if a problem is going to take more than 10 seconds, skip it.
*go back and do the hard ones that you know how to do. (the ones that take more than 10 seconds)
*by now you should have 3-4 blank questions remaining, which are really hard and you have no idea how to do them. make educated guess.

the other technique:
*do the easy ones and the hard ones that you know how to do first. Do not skip problems that will take more than 10 seconds, because if you skip, you will forget the context and you will have to reread the passage.
*Now do the really hard ones that you dont know, making educated guesses.

edit: let me ask a better question. what are some "signs" that let you know you need to skip?
for me: if i have no idea what the quesion is asking, or if i am scratching my head, that means its time to skip.. ( i scratch my head when i am frustrated).

 

[AG22]

Kay, first of all, the title of this thread is really bugging me lol. It's never "more better" it's always "which is better?" hha. SOO, now that I've ranted for the day (sorry to take it out on ya I just got a laaaamee VR score) I'm going to answer the question 🙂

The way I do it, is always always always, read the passage first, and then answer the qsnts (not necessarily in order) Meaning I may skip around the questions given in the passage....but I always fill in my answer and then move on. I don't want to leave anything blank. Educated guesses is the way to go!

THis helps me calm down, b/c I know that by the end, I can always go back to the marked questions....and say I run into a difficult passage towards the end, that takes a lot of time, I may not always have the time to go back, re-read the psg and then make an educated guess.

Also, another technique i use, is to preview all of the test first (for BS and PS only...I go in order in VR). SO, for instance, during BS what I do is quickly write out at the top of my scrap paper all the bio and orgo psgs...so it looks like this: 1-B 2-O Q, 3-B 4-B 5-B Q 6-O 7-O Q. THen I tackle all the Q first...those are the easiest. Then I do all the Bio qstns, then I do all the Orgo qstns.

Hope you find what works for ya,

And I am hoping for a miracle on test day. With all the sections; VR especially.

 

[giants25]

Don't skip around it just wastes time. All of the passages are doable as long as you focus on reading the passage. I try and spend 3 minutes a passage not focusing on details but on the main picture. Then i go through the questions, 99 percent of the time in order. Usually I try and take 35 minutes or less to do the first 4 passages and 25 minutes to do the last 3. Thats usually how I pace myself.
But definitely don't jump around, your bound to lose your focus and waste time.

 

[doc totipotent]

I couldn't skip because it ended up negatively affecting me. I experimented with skipping on a couple of practice tests and noticed that once I took the first step to skip a question, I was more likely to skip other questions. That killed my confidence, which made me second guess myself even more.

Instead, I would try to spend no more than a minute on each question. If that minute passed, then I would make a quick decision, choose an answer, and flag that question. Then I'd move on to the next one knowing that I'd probably have time to revisit it at the end. I guess the argument could be made that I was skipping it by flagging it, but I still made sure to mark at least some answer, and mark which ones I new weren't right. For some reason, that didn't kill my confidence as much.

 

[Mattabet]

👍 A lot of the above.

I found it killed my efficiency to be spending time getting back to 'hard' questions so that I could get an answer for them, and I was afraid I would forget something. So as much as possible, I didn't skip.

When I really got jammed on something and it was using up my time cushion, I'd pick my best guess, mark it, and hope I had time to get back at the end. But I feel like if you plan to navigate through the test 2-3 times, you're going to lose a minute or two in transit, which I'd rather have to use in answering a hard question.