zpvg981022 wrote:
Dear whoever reading this,
would appreciate your help with CARS, even comments or suggestions or if you could go over one passage together
Working on Jack Westin passages now
Thanks so much for your advice and your insightful comments.
Please email me if you have time to go over a passage.
[email protected]Thanks
Hey there, first, you are not alone. Struggling with the same thing. Canadian here, so really need a great score. Taking my exam this June, but I can see some improvement in my practice so far.
First thing I did is to improve my timing. I followed "practice without timing" and it ruined everything. So I strongly recommend: start earlier on your timing skills. I followed this: 5 Questions-9 minutes, 6Q- 11 minutes, 7Q- 12 minutes. I followed this from the TS 30 day guide. I made a small change, instead of using 4 minutes to read the passage (ESL/slow reader) I took 5 minutes to read the passage.
Second, DO NOT SKIM READ the passage. Read the passage properly, do not pay attention to minute details, just understand and map what the author is telling you. Follow the tone, keep an eye where he/she is changing the topic and check why it is done. Trust me, it sounds a lot, but you will get it with practice. Believe me, I started to enjoy reading boring passages. I made effort to read and understand at least 75% of what the author is trying to convey.
When you do that, while answering the questions, you can easily eliminate 2 -3 wrong answers. When you come across some tricky answers always remember: DO NOT bring the outside knowledge. When you understand the passage you can clearly see that something is added in that trickiest answer which is not from the passage. Also look for extreme answer choices like "never, always, etc.." .
And for the reason this is called as CRITICAL ANALYSIS AND REASONING: when you face hard questions, my friend, bubble it, move on , it is hard to do so, but yeah, you have to. Come back once you are done with the rest, and try your best to read into the answers and you will get the answer right. Or, hey, at least you did not waste your time on that and missed the easiest one.
Please feel free to let me know if you want to practice together.
BTB JW is soooooooooo expensive TBH.
KC