Error patterns in SC

[wind]

I could monitor fixed patterns of wrong/trapping answers in CR and RC which facillitated a lot the process of elimination , but despite I train a lot on SC and making acceptable progress yet I still cannot spot a clear image of common traps in SC questions.

Any advice? thanks in advance :)

[jlucero]

That's a pretty open-ended question, and without knowing your particular situation, it's tough for me to give you a clear answer. That said, the error that I find most students have when they work through SC is doing too many questions and knowing too little about all the wrong answer choices. What's most difficult about SC is that you almost have to jump into the deep end of the pool to get a question right. If you do 5 questions in a row in the OG, you'll have seen 10 different topics being tested, so it's hard to get better at recognizing any style of error. Focus less on getting questions right and more on recognizing certain errors. You can have a great study session by going through questions and just looking for things that are parallel. When you find a problem that tests parallelism, stop and think about which answer choices you can eliminate. Or sort through questions and just do the ones that test parallelism.

When you do a bunch of Geometry problems, you can eventually remember a process to use. Since SC doesn't just test one topic at a time, you need to make sure you are seeing enough questions in order to be able to reinforce that learning and be able to use it on future questions.