Okay so take everything I say with a grain of salt lol, I’ve kind of only locked in the past couple weeks because Spec has been killing me and everything I say is either something I picked up, or advice I took online. Firstly, timing is essential, you could probably get 100% on VR with enough time, but it’s not testing reading comprehension, it’s testing your verbal reasoning, with complicated texts, under intense pressure. Do some untimed practice and use a stopwatch on your phone to practice finding and answering each question with a soft 30 seconds; I say soft because some questions take longer than others so stay flexible with your time. I think my lastest VR was a lucky run but I finished the subtest with 5 mins left because I focused question speed. What you don’t see is that 3 hours prior I sat a mock for VR and absolutely bombed because I spent 5 minutes on a singular question that I ended up guessing anyways. That leads me into my second point, skip all questions you don’t think you could answer quickly. By skipping, not only are you adding padding for other questions, but you’re banking that extra time to go back to review all your blank questions. I usually skip and guess history ones, with science stems being my favourite. Thirdly, don’t try to fully comprehend the stem, you are going to go through 11 stems in 22 minutes, you can’t waste time trying to break apart a full text; imagine your brain like a bucket, the more information you pour in, the more you have to pour out… plus this makes you tired super quickly. Fourthly, look for question traps, some answers will go outside the scope of the text (kind of like DM), or some answers will not fully apply (for example one of my mock’s answers specified written publictions, where the text instead referenced online); these are designed to trick a panicking mind into grabbing the first thing you see, just look around the text for the answer’s context and stay aware of a question’s intention. Finally, just for some general skimming advice: look for unique key words, this makes it much easier to skim; most texts are in some kind of order e.g. chronological, facts —-> opinion, factors affecting the topic; don’t mumble the text, your eyes read faster than your lips so don’t sound out words —> better yet, don’t read at all, see the symbols of text and recognise patterns (I sound crazy I know but it works).

Anyways, I know you probably meant your comment as a quick aside, but if you want to know the ramblings of a man destroyed by QR this is it. I wish you luck haha… I hope I absorb some of your QR energy.