How to improve verbal accuracy with time?

[human instinct]

So after my dismal diagnostic verbal score....my accuracy has slightly improved so that I make around one to two mistakes per passage. However, when pressed against time, this accuracy significantly decreases.

I need tips on how to time my self to completion without severely affecting my accuracy. Of the tips i have heard from tpr are that it is better to leave out a verbal passage than rushing through and getting questions wrong. Is this recommended?

thanks.

[supafield]

I personally think the TPR strategy is garbage... but that may just be because of the way I do verbal... I can't justify skipping a passage when I'm not terribly time stressed.

 

for someone who is showing a marked decrease if efficacy due to time pressure this may be an effective strategy...

 

Depending on the time you have left before your test date I say the best way to fix your problem is to make smaller leaps...

 

In tennis we teach accuracy before power and really emphasize this to children over years of practice before they're able to start worrying about hitting the ball harder....

 

I would advise the same things with you.....

Practice within a time limit in which you think you're scoring as high as you can.....

Then try to do that in a minute less time/passage .... if you notice a decrease keep practicing at that time limit hopefully bringing your accuracy up....

 

Then take another minute off/passage and practice ... keep doing this until you get to a time structure that would let you complete the section.....

 

The thing is this can be time consuming as it may take A LOT of practice to bring your accuracy up at each lowered time level but I think definitely doable... so if you're test isn't until later this summer... just spend a couple weeks at each time interval improving and hopefully get to the desired speed!

 

If you're writing soon... I apologize for the useless information lol

Verbal is all practice.... there's a few tricks you can look out for but at the end of the day... I think it's the extra hundred passages that student X did and analyzed that will get him or her a better score over student Y who is roughly of the same natural ability.

 

Of course a sectioned tailored to your strengths also helps but try your best to minimize luck in the equation.

[Rock*]

Verbal reasoning is 100% strategy but each one of us reasons differently so no single strategy would work for everybody. That's why I wouldn't put too much faith on individual reviews of different programs when it comes to VR. If you've got the money and the time, buy the VR books from Kaplan, Princeton and EK. Try all of those strategies on practice tests and save the bits that work for you.