Reading Comprehension Strategy

[mskgmat]

I bought all Manhattan strategy guides and practice based on strategies given in the guides as bible. I am pretty much comfortable with all strategies except one strategy in reading comprehension.

I got accuracy of 90% when I spend more time on initial reading of the passage. When I spend less time in the passage during initial reading I got only 70% correct. Most of the cases I fell for trap answers. I am confused which approach to take.

Experts please help me. Thanks a lot in advance.

[StaceyKoprince]

Define "more time." If you spend so much time that this would cause you to get other questions wrong later in an exam section (because you run out of time, or because you rush and make careless mistakes), then lifting your performance by 20% probably isn't worth the tradeoff...

We'll assume that the ones you get right using this strategy are the hardest ones for you (otherwise, you wouldn't need extra time to do them). You may then, later, get questions wrong that are much easier for you because you don't have adequate time. That's a terrible trade-off because, for something that's harder, by definition, you're already more likely to get it wrong. Don't sacrifice something you definitely CAN do for a chance at something that you may or may not be able to do.

And there are always trade-offs when making these timing decisions - we simply never have enough time to do it all. :)