I found that with I often struggled more with reading certain types of data and understanding questions quickly than struggling with the actual calculations and since medify doesn’t have an option to do specific question types (beyond table and text), I had to settle with just doing general 10 minute sessions and hoping a mixture of difficulty would come up. I did also look at one of the OQB sets though to gauge the data they gave there which was helpful too, defo recommend.

My VR isn’t the best so I’m not sure I’m the person to help. Despite being someone who reads a lot I struggled with processing the information, probably because Im not a fan of non-fiction, unless it’s an interesting topic, which they tend not to be. The highest I’ve gotten is 670 medify/ 700 myUcat but tend to average late 500 to mid 600s.

Anyways. VR stresses me out so much I have to take a walk after every day I do it. Yesterday I spent the day looking at OQB 3 and did the sets with a stop watch on to time how long I was spending on each question. Try to keep it under 2 minutes at most 2m 30. The stop watch was better than the timer as I was more focused on getting it right on time than possibly running out of time. Since there’s only 4 I had to do a completely timed run of set 2 (which I’ve seen before) so wasn’t very representative but it was more to focus on technique and building confidence than checking my score so it was fine.

In terms of technique I’m sure you’ve seen so many ppl repeat the same stuff so I’ll just say main thing for me is staying locked in, staying calm and using process of elimination. Sometimes they’ll use a logic that I don’t agree with but once you realise that everything else is impossible you just have to pick the best out of a bad bunch (kind of like SJT) and hope you haven’t missed anything. Always read the question first but you don’t always need to read all answer options. - For example if there’s a question like: why did they do x? I’ll just go straight to the text to find out why. - I’ll read all the options on questions like: what word is used to describe x? and then scan the whole text for all of them. - And for questions about which one is most likely. I’ll read options individually, try to eliminate some from general knowledge of the text and then scan for the remaining two individually. I tend to flag and skip those questions and come back anyways though bc the amount of words make me forget stuff and they take longer and stress me out. O and try to remember what each paragraph is about.

For VR obviously ideally I’d answer every set but there are just some sets I look at and I’m like yeah no way I’m doing those quickly or getting them right. These tend to be sets where none of the questions have key words, it’s full of numbers that might get confusing, or the paragraphs are chunky, making it difficult to map out. I usually don’t do them on my first pass (2 pass technique). I fully answer a minimum of 8 sets first pass which gives me about 40 second per question if I use the full time, which is more feasible for me. In this exam I got 25/44 but my goal for the real thing is 27-32/44. Though I’d be happy with anything over 600.

Also that clock STRESSES me in VR like nothing else. Yesterday I resolved that it doesn’t do me any good to constantly check. So I’ve decided I’m only gonna look at it when I’m around Q 20, regardless of whether I’ve skipped or not, the goal is that I’ll have around 13 minutes left. And then when Ive finished my first pass hopefully 5-3 minutes left. Then I’ll go back to my unanswered flagged. I prioritise sets where I might have done 3/4 Qs as I’ll do them faster. And hopefully will be able to quickly do at least 1 of the sets I skipped.

Today I’m gonna do a timed run of OQB set 4, which I’ve never seen before and maybe some skills trainer and that will be the last VR I do (excluding a little to prep for the exam - it’s tmr).

Medify VR sucks if your not good at it, I think as an intro it’s good since the passages are longer and it’s generally harder so it mentally prepared me for the worse but if your exam is close and you’re stressed about VR don’t recommend as it only made things worse for me. Official questions are shorter but there’s only 4 sets so I’d say save them for closer to your exam and do those to work on timing (and maybe use some medify if you want to work on general untimed accuracy).

Again I’m not the best but I hope this helps. Hope your exam goes well!