Time-Pressured AC Selection on Advanced CL Questions

[aaronvoldman]

I know that working wrong-to-right, moving through a solid elimination strategy of four answers and confirming the fifth is ideal. But assuming I'm feeling a time crunch, and am confident in my linking of conditional logic statements, and an answer stands out clearly as true according to my linked statements, would you recommend just pulling the trigger on that answer and moving on (returning to check the other answers if time permits)?

I think Noah mentioned in LSAT interact that under time pressure this move could also hold for time-consuming matching questions (or maybe he encouraged using this technique on CL statements instead? I don't recall exactly). It does seem, though, that this strategy could work on matching questions as well, though it would be less ideal on matching questions since there are more opportunities to throw traps into the longer paragraph statements, than compared to the one or two line answer choices for advanced conditional logic questions.

[tommywallach]

Hey Aaron,

It's very simple. Working wrong to right is always more accurate, but it's slower. So yes, under time constraints, you can "switch" over to just matching up. Just keep in mind that you'll get things wrong. You can also test your accuracy while practicing: see what your "Correct rate" is when you use this method (make sure you're timing yourself and going under time).

Good luck!

-t