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R&Q Pacing Strat

Because I always have to send this dm, I thought I would just make a post:

The Core Strat: Accuracy Over Speed

Do NOT read faster: Trying to speed-read ruins your accuracy. Grabbing the "main idea" from a quick skim is way harder than it sounds.

The real trick: Fully understand every single line. Get exactly what the text is saying the first time so you don't waste time rereading.

Emergency fallback: If you are totally running out of time (this doesn't work 100% of the time, but it helps), read the first line and the last line to get the general idea, and just skim the middle.

How to Train

Read heavy texts: Practice with dense reading material, like articles from Nature.

Annotate and summarize: If you can make clear annotations and write the simplest but strongest summaries for those dense articles, the SAT passages will not be nearly as bad.

The Test-Day Execution Plan

You have to make the test work for you by creating the easiest test possible. YES, skip questions! Here is the exact order to tackle the test:

Phase 1: The Quick Points: Do all the vocab, grammar, transitions, and student notes questions first. Try to get 100% accuracy here. When you finish these, you will be left with a LOT of time.

Phase 2: The Vibe Check: Go to the comprehension questions. Gauge the difficulty and length of the passage. If it seems short or the question looks easy, do it.

Phase 3: Highlight & Bail: If a reading question is taking a lil longer, just leave your highlights on the text and move on immediately.

Tackling the Leftovers Save the super long questions for the end. Usually, I am left with something like 2 graph/chart questions, 1 long passage, and 1 dual comprehension question. I like to attack them in this order:

First, Graphs/Charts: These take time because you have to read both the visual and the text.

Next, The Long Passage: it already has my highlights, so I can just read those highlights and choose the best answer.

Last, Dual Comprehension: because I just hate them but they r easy to guess on

Also, highly suggest watching this video for more tips: https://youtu.be/NBECQxDBQQs

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R&Q Pacing Strat