<p>Patterson's saids to devote around 4-5 minutes ranking the passages from Easiest-->hardest before you start then doing 11-14 minutes per passage</p>
<p>Anyone do this.. is this effective? I think I might try it im not sure though, I should probably do a practice test using this method first</p>
<p>Logically that might make sense, but how would you know the hardest from the easiest? You probably have to read the passages, and in one example, the smallest passage for one of the prompts was much more difficult then the longer ones. Why waste time seeing the skimming the passaged for difficulty when you can read a whole passage and read to answer questions? My $.02 - read each passage one by one. Do know a question ? Skip it. Questions involves to many tasks? SKip it. Don't waste time on problems that consume time. Save those for last.</p>
<p>You mean like skip the Roman Numberal problems for last.. like the ones that say all of the following except I. Complex-Complex II. Etc. III. Etc Etc. and the choices are A- 1 B- 1 +2 c- 3 d- 1,2,3,4</p>
<p>Well, if you think about it you have less than 1 minute per question because you have to read the passage...I think you should just read through the passages in order. First skim the passage fo a general idea/structure (makes things easier to find later), then work on the questions referring back to the passage. If you find one passage too hard, skip it and come back to it later. No use wasting time on something you'll have trouble answering.</p>
<p>As for reading through all the passages, I probably wouldn't do it because of the time issues. I tend to take all the time allowed during timed tests.</p>
<p>I use delirious_tree's way too. Just circle or mark questions you have trouble with and then come back to it after you've gone through all the other questions. This way, you can answer the questions you CAN answer and leave some time to re-think about the question you couldn't get the first time.</p>
<p>my analysis of those types is that i usually skip them. take 10 seconds to see what they ask. Then if you do not have a definite idea, skip it. Another type of question that allots most of my time involve seeing which literary device is used in the passage (as a whole). Some are easy to spot while others take a while. I skip these as well as some harder comparison questions. I usually beat down on the questions involving evaluation of certain lines. not sure if this is helpful. I normally get atleast 36+ on MC. and usually liike 8 wrong the rest omit. Im trying to improve it to 40+ but its getting harder because of time concerns. Also what is helpful is getting 3-4 mins to check the answers you put. I fixed a few careless mistakes with this.</p>
<p>my strategy is as follows for the test:</p>
<p>what i do for Fat passages:
Skim the passages introduction. (40 secs.) Look at questions involving the specific reading of certain sentences. Then by viewing these questions, read the section around the question (including the question's sentence) After reading the surrounding for each question and answer, read the parts you missed that involve the other questions. Once you do this, you can take account tone and overall meaning. For those questions involving you to view evaluate the different points I, II, III, simply skim over the parts you saw in the passage. (Sometimes passages divide those points up on their own- examples in Cliffs). You should take no longer then 17 mins for this process. Because passages vary, you can allot more time on big passgaes then smaller ones.</p>
<p>what i do for Smaller passages:
for this one, take 30 secs to skim all questions. take 5 mins to read the whole passage thoroughly and completely (because it is shorter). View the questions and quickly do each of them. These ones require less time so be aware of budgeting time throughout the MC.</p>
<p>Long passages = 17 mins
Shorter ones= 13-15 mins</p>
<p>Now i need to work on my essays. =/.</p>
<p>I just took a sample Lang MC
I answered every question (might've been a mistake)
I spent around 15 minutes on every section, cept the last one- 12 minutes (didn't feel like re-checking everything in 3 mins)</p>
<p>I got 38 right..... 19 wrong.</p>
<p>overall raw of like 33 or somethin.</p>
<p>how many questions is the MC? is it a good idea to omit a question or just guess if you get it down to a few choices?</p>
<p>The MC is around 55 questions, give or take a few. Always guess if you have any idea! Even if you don't have an idea, probibility says you will not get a higher or lower score. But you will be wasting your time.</p>
<p>But if you can eliminate ANY choice, it is best to guess because it tilts the odds in your favor.</p>
<p>4/5 are incorrect and dock you .25 points, 1/5 are correct and give you 1 point. </p>
<p>So complete random guessing will theoretically land you at ZERO, but you will have wasted time writing the answer down.</p>
<p>If you eliminate one choice then</p>
<p>3/4 incorrect at .25 each, 3 x .25 = .75
1/4 correct at 1 point. 1 x 1 = 1.</p>
<p>Obviously the more you can eliminate the better, but if you eliminate any choices it is in your favor to guess from the remaining.</p>