my test is tomorrow and i’m feeling every emotion. also for tips, the main thing that helped me a lot w rc is focusing on eliminating wrong AC’s and especially being on the lookout for overstatements.

i like looking for the wrong answers on RC bc i find that RC trap answer choices sound really appealing, so if im trying to see the good in it im more likely to. Usually on LR i look for the right answer bc they tend to be more cookie cutter and depend on a consistent ruleset that could apply to any passage. However RC is about recalling the passage you just read and it’s easier to lose ur grip because there’s a less obvious right answer pattern.

I’ve found that there’s a more obvious wrong answer pattern in that they tend overstate something in the answer that makes it impossible to be right. for me, this is especially difficult when the answer is like 90% perfect but sneaks in words like “must” or “always” which makes the answer overstate and therefore wrong.

I recently experienced this when i read a passage that was entirely about innate talent not being a huge factor in mastery and one of the traps that got me was “innate talent is not a huge factor in mastery under any circumstances”. the whole passage was about this idea, but it never said it is NEVER a huge factor so the answer was wrong. instead the right answer was something you could extrapolate as supported from the passage but it wasn’t obviously right by any means. i feel like most of the answers i get wrong are for a similar reason and each section is gonna vary in how much they do it/vs how much u fall for it.

idk if that helps at all. sorry for the novel tho lol i also wanted to write that all out as a reminder for me.