What to Do Now: LR Practice
If you are reading this, you have finished all the LR learning material. You have also been doing the drills and can pass them with reasonable confidence. You do not need to be an expert yet — but you should feel comfortable with all the question types.
Now the real studying begins. Here is exactly what to do, step by step.
Daily LR Practice
Step 1: Start with one LR section per day. Focus purely on correctness first. Do not worry about time. Get comfortable hitting the right answers before you worry about speed.
Step 2: Once your correctness is solid, add the time constraint. Try to finish the section within 35 minutes. Your fundamentals should be strong enough now to get you there with consistent practice.
Step 3: Once you can reliably finish one section in 35 minutes, do two back to back. This mimics what you will face on test day, where two LR sections appear with a 1 minute break between them.
After every section: go back and review every question you got wrong. Understand why your answer was wrong and why the correct answer is right. Also review any questions you flagged during the section — questions you answered but were not confident about. You want to make sure correct answers were not just lucky guesses. I explain how to review effectively in the next lesson.
Weekly Full Tests
In addition to your daily sections, do one full test per week.
The first few tests, you may need more than 35 minutes per section. That is expected. The daily section practice will bring your timing down naturally over time.
After taking a full test, do nothing else that day. Your brain will be cooked. The following day, review your wrong answers and flagged answers from the test.
The Time Commitment
This sounds like a lot but it really is not. You are looking at:
- 35 minutes of section practice per day
- 10 to 15 minutes of review after each section
- One full test per week (roughly 2.5 hours)
- One review session the day after each full test (30 to 60 minutes)
That is less than an hour on most days. Do this consistently and two back-to-back sections will stop feeling like a grind.
Reading Comprehension
There is still more to learn. While you are doing your daily LR sections, start working through the Reading Comprehension chapters below in parallel.
The goal is to do both at the same time: one LR section per day, plus one RC topic and its associated drill. You are not pausing LR practice to study RC — you are doing both together.
GLHF!