u/coffeepearls

I find it hard to switch gears between studying for LR and RC. Admittedly, since I started studying I got really focused on improving my LR, to the point where I've neglected RC. Right now, I'm all about tightening that gaps in my LR. I'm just worried that I don't have the bandwidth to studying for RC also.

I haven't started studying for that section. I'm wondering if anyone has had successful strategies for balancing study time for both sections? Man, this test is overwhelming.

Last year, when I was a college senior, me and this guy had tension. I knew him from prior years in university and always felt like there was something there but couldn’t be sure. Anyways, towards the end of the fall semester we ended up confessing that we be both liked each other. I was riding on a high until I learned he had a girlfriend the entire time, who had graduated a year before us. I didn’t know they were together until I asked a friend about him. My crush started ignoring me outright in the spring semester once we were back from winter break.

I opened Instagram the other day and I saw that another classmate posted a story of the two of them where he’s kissing her cheek. Im not sure why, but I wasn’t expecting them to still be together. Maybe that was to protect my feelings a little bit. I told myself at first that I didn’t feel that uspet, but when I woke up the next morning and remembered the post, I felt much worse.

The whole thing makes me feel pathetic. I thought I would’ve moved on more at this point. I know I have free will, but it feels like my crush had roped me into this with his flirting (he was the initiator). But he had the choice to retreat back into his relationship, while I was left trying to make sense of what had happened between us. It just still hurts after all this time.

I'm averaging about -5 per LR section but it's a kinda inconsistent average; like some days I'll get -3 and others I'll get -6/7 per section. I think the issue boils down to my performance on the hardest questions. I've been going over my wrong answers for these questions, but I still don't have a grasp on the subtleties. Sometimes it seems like the correct answer choice is irrelevant to the stim and/or seems to have no bearing on the conclusion. Dare I say that the correct answers sometimes feel a little arbitrary. I was wondering if anyone has advice for someone at this stage in their studying. Were there any methods/tips that helped things click for you with the difficult questions? Many thanks!