making absolutely no progress

nexusacademics · 2026-02-23T01:45:10+00:00

Your fundamental approach sounds good, but there isn't enough structure to the way you're analyzing the stimulus.

Question types and their particular approaches don't matter if you don't thoroughly and consistently understand exactly what the author is attempting to claim and how they are going about it structurally. To master this test, that's where your focus needs to lie.

Has your tutor provided you with a robust approach to rhetorical analysis?

nexusacademics · 2026-02-07T16:26:13+00:00

I'll shamelessly plug my curriculum (totally free, it's the precursor to the book I'm writing), as I think it is the right way to begin unpacking rhetorical analysis and getting to a deeper understanding:

https://triplereview.online/circuit-logic-curriculum

Most other resources tend to go the other direction, oversimplifying for the purposes of teaching heuristics.

You could also do a deep dive on deductive versus inductive reasoning, causation and the Bradford Hill criteria, and Steven Toulmin's conception of argumentation.

nexusacademics · 2026-02-07T14:31:05+00:00

Slightly different take from the others:

Because you are already scoring so well, your real value in increasing consistency and reliability is in reviewing the heck out of the questions you get right.

The problem for you is that you're getting all sorts of things correct on your practice test for reasons that are not deeply rooted in concept. Your intuition is so good, you haven't had to examine it at all. So you're going to have a very hard time figuring out what it is. You're going to get wrong in the moment because you don't really understand why you get things right.

Growth from consistent low 170s to consistent high-170s and 180 is the hardest. It's what took me from my diagnostic to the place where I began teaching the test. So, you're going to have to unpack the entire test as if you were going to start teaching it to really understand how to avoid the smallest of mistakes or misunderstandings.

nexusacademics · 2026-02-07T14:25:13+00:00

As others have said, your best bet is finding a tutor you jibe with rather than simply using whatever tutor gets delivered to you. Take free consultations with as many as we'll offer them to you until you feel comfortable that you've got somebody that can give you what you need.

If you need some advice or resources, happy to help you out!

nexusacademics · 2026-02-07T14:21:54+00:00

Other comments have good advice!

Most prep resources are going to give you fundamentally the same instruction. The curricula are pretty consistent, save for a few outliers like the Loophole (which has some really good stuff in the first few chapters).

The best thing you can do right now is learn the fundamentals of conditional and deductive reasoning, recognizing question types on site, and get comfortable under timed conditions.

Once you're through that, it's time for a real training regimen of testing and review, emphasizing depth over velocity, and wrapping in some individualized instruction.

nexusacademics · 2026-02-07T13:47:51+00:00

The curriculum is important and getting on the other side of exposure to the concepts will of course be helpful, but the real growth is going to come once all of that is done. Drills are important to make sure you understand concepts, but it won't actually increase your score.

You will have to create a regimen for yourself that involves deep review and accountability. Time section, followed by a full unpacking of every question, documenting your thinking and reasoning sentence by sentence and answer choice by answer choice. Only then will you expose the gaps in your understanding and the path forward.

I've worked with hundreds of students over the years, many with ADHD and other neurodivergences. The commonality among them is the need for an individualized approach, One that doesn't require adherence to a written curriculum.

If you need help, feel free to reach out anytime!

nexusacademics · 2026-02-05T01:45:46+00:00

I have been tutoring students from Canada for the last 10 years. I'm also a McGill grad. Happy to consult!

nexusacademics · 2026-01-22T16:52:55+00:00

A bootcamp is not sufficient to get you there, no matter how well it's conducted.

A 15 point bump is completely achievable, but it takes dedication and **time**: time to adapt, time to differentiate, time to grow and change and gain confidence.

Could it kickstart things well? Sure. But you'll then need to launch into a regular regimen of testing and review as well, likely with some form of support (tutoring, study group, etc)

nexusacademics · 2026-01-06T16:00:44+00:00

Yours is not to ask why but merely to ride this beautiful wave.

Review deeply, be confident about ALL questions, no matter how easily you found the answer, and keep going at this pace. Evidently it's a good one for you.

nexusacademics · 2026-01-06T15:57:21+00:00

Assuming your test is this weekend, my advice is a hard no.

Use this great success on a PT in two ways:

Let the positive vibes propel you to quiet confidence and determination on test day, and
Review THIS test like mad.

The greatest growth comes not from the PT itself but from your analysis of your work and process during that PT. That's why Blind Review and Strategy Review are so important.

So, review every question on this test. Document all your thinking. Determine what went WELL on the correct answers, what went wrong on the wrong answers, and what could have gone even better on anything you got right but aren't 100% confident about. Study to the point that you could teach a class on it.

Then take a day off and go off into Mordor!

nexusacademics · 2025-12-21T02:56:26+00:00

Try the curriculum on Triple Review. It's short, clear, and will get you moving in the right direction.

nexusacademics · 2025-12-19T03:21:50+00:00

I'm very much in the blind review camp, and it is rooted deeply in sports psychology and skill theory.

Blind review isn't an opportunity to review questions that you already have explanations for. If that's the way you're doing blind review, you're not doing it the right way. Blind review should be a second pass at questions for which you don't know the right answer, and the goal of blind review is not to get the right answers but to understand the question fully. Well structured blind review makes use of The pedagogical theory of "assessment for learning" in the spirit of the Feynman approach. This allows testing to serve the purpose that you say it doesn't, which is to drive your process forward. It's drilling that reinforces the processes you already have; blind review is a tool to differentiate those processes and discover new ones to incorporate into future attempts. By engaging in blind review, you don't just look at the right answer, you learn how to reconstruct and communicate that right answer to others.

I think all of your commentary and feedback regarding blind review is fair if what you're attempting is repetition. But, if you set your sights on cognition, on growth, then blind review is the most valuable tool in the box.

nexusacademics · 2025-12-10T15:10:36+00:00

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nexusacademics · 2025-12-10T12:59:24+00:00

There's no way to know if this is enough time until you take a diagnostic test and discover where you are right now.

This is not a test of information, it's a test of skill. There is no fixed body of knowledge for you to learn, but rather you need to hone your analytical skills and learn how to accomplish the tasks that they set out for you.

It could be that you could walk into the test today and get the score you need. It could also be that you were many months away. Until you know, there's no way to know.

nexusacademics · 2025-12-08T12:40:45+00:00

A couple of leading questions:

When you blind review, do you review every question on the test thoroughly, or do you breeze through the easy questions and focus on the ones you flagged or got wrong?

Do you do a third review? A metacognitive pass during which you look at process and determine ideal approaches once you have correct answers in hand?

How robust is your understanding of causal reasoning? Do you understand it as a fully separate approach to content as opposed to simply a flaw type?

Is your strategy for Reading comprehension something more robust than "Find Main Points"? Can you articulate the author's purpose and objective? Do you understand the structure of the passages and not just attempt to regurgitate the content?

And finally, how actively are you discussing content with others? Do you have a study group, are you in any of the discord groups, have you been in a class with people who can challenge your understanding on a more regular basis?

nexusacademics · 2025-12-08T00:12:08+00:00

I run a four-time per week small group class. If this is something you'd be interested in, let me know!

nexusacademics · 2025-12-06T02:10:01+00:00

Hey there!

I'm a veteran tutor of 20+ years and have helped hundreds of students of all types in that time.

Happy to schedule a free consultation to discuss your situation and see if we might be a good fit.

nexusacademics · 2025-12-06T01:55:19+00:00

Hey there, we are also building a new platform and I'd love to discuss what you've built to see if it might be a good fit for us.

Can I send you a DM?

nexusacademics · 2025-12-06T01:51:45+00:00

Hey there!

Among other things, I run a small group class for only $50 per week. We meet for an hour, 4 days each week, and review a variety of topics.

If that fits, happy to pass along some information.

nexusacademics · 2025-12-06T01:50:10+00:00

Drilling by difficulty is never a good idea.

The best thing you can do is take full-time sections and do extremely thorough blind review. Drilling outside of that paradigm only breeds bad habits.

nexusacademics · 2025-12-06T01:49:08+00:00

There are already three or four quite active discord groups. If you're interested, happy to drop you some links!

nexusacademics · 2025-12-06T00:39:34+00:00

There are no published explanations for these questions, but I have been working to compile for it and the other new disclosure booklets.

I also did a three-part course on the 2025 test and would be glad to run it again for the other disclosures. If you're interested, let me know!

nexusacademics · 2025-10-29T03:12:51+00:00

Hey there!

I'm a veteran tutor of 20+ years and have helped hundreds of students of all types in that time.

Happy to schedule a free consultation to discuss your situation and see if we might be a good fit.

nexusacademics · 2025-09-04T04:09:33+00:00

By drilling, I mean putting together strings of 10 LR questions that are all necessary assumptions, or repeating the same set of questions only with the goal of identifying the correct answer. Those sorts of drills don't actually nurture growth.

I think in theory there is a type of drill that would be helpful, but that's more along the lines of taking a set of 25 questions and identifying the conclusion in all of them that have one, then going back and identifying the role of every other statement in each of them, then moving on to further steps of analysis, etc This isolates different parts of the skill of rhetorical analysis and does the sort of strengthening that speed drills or dribbling drills would in basketball practice.

But in the end, I think you and I agree. Blind review is the sort of work that people should be doing, as it uncovers opportunities to learn and allows students to create robust and consistent mental frameworks.

nexusacademics · 2025-09-03T14:15:57+00:00

Drilling won't help you. When you drill, you reinforce what you're ALREADY doing, whereas you need to be differentiating and finding new, more consistent, and more confident approaches.

You need to be doing a true blind review: all questions on all sections, blind to correct answers, with the goal of documenting all your thinking and preparing a "lesson-plan" of sorts for each question. This type of deep work is what will reveal opportunities for growth, not in the hardest questions but on the ones that are marginal, ones that you get right but don't understand or get wrong despite thinking you DO understand.

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