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Julie-V August 12, 2019

Finding an Answer & Moving On

Hi LSAT Max, I'm usually the type to look at all the answer choices since I'm never 100% confident about the one I'm choosing. For this question, I anticipated an answer similar to (C), so I chose it without consulting (D) and (E) first. I know that on the day of the exam we'll be short on time, but I was wondering if there are any indicators where you can confidently assume that the answer you chose is correct and just move on without looking at the rest. Is it one of those "it gets better with practice" kind of strategy? Thank you in advance for the help!

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Ravi August 21, 2019

@Julie-V,

Great question. It certainly gets better with practice, but I can tell
you that in general, if you anticipate an answer choice and find one
of the answers to match your anticipation (as you did with this
question), that will almost always be the correct answer. In fact,
this is a great sign and shows that you're engaging very well with the
material of the test! I find that generally, the highest-scoring
test-takers are able to correctly predict and anticipate the correct
answer choice for lots of the problems.

In short, you can confidently assume the answer choice you chose is
correct when you predicted or anticipated the correct answer being
something very similar or identical to that answer choice.

Hope this helps. Let us know if you have any other questions!