Lrdi from scratch
Hello sir hope you are doing well, sir I want to start lrdi from scratch because when I see lectures they were easy but when I start to practice I am stuck at the first step ,so can you guide me regarding this issue and how to improve lrdi please
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hello mere bachhe..
Since I don't know how you are exactly approaching as you have provided very little information in your question, I will tell you the mistakes students often do and then guide you under this assumption that you must also be making those mistakes.
1. Most students approach LR like a school subject. They think it must have a defined syllabus and try to learn it in a topic by topic manner - trying to follow fixed methodologies that may help them solve sets. But that doesn't work in CAT's LR. It can work in SNAP or NMAT, but never in CAT. CAT's LR is boundless - they can create an entirely never seen before set today because they are not bound by any syllabus restrictions. They can combine 5 different topics and create a set which requires 25 steps to solve it, something no theory will ever teach you to do.
Now, to the surprise part: they actually do it every year. Since last 3 years, CAT has been giving sets which students simply can't make much sense of because they follow no restricted pathways to solve.
Thus, CAT's LR requires triple the hard work than other tests. You can't rely on theory or concepts or methods to learn it. The only way to master it is to approach it like you approach chess. There is no defined way to play chess that will guarantee you victory - you just play, lose a hundred times but keep thinking, keep learning from every loss and eventually become a good thinker, a deeply logical person who can now think in any situation. No matter what new move your opponent plays, you can think logically and decide your next move. That's LR for you.
So, sou need to start solving sets on your own without looking at the solution videos or hints, even if it takes days to solve a set. Not even if, it will surely take multiple attempts to solve sets in the beginning, and you might even feel like you are stuck - but you can't give up. You will have to keep trying.
Back when I was preparing, I had a hard rule - I used to try every set 4 times. If I fail today, I would try again tomorrow and would do it for 3-4 different days. I used to try every time for around 15-20 minutes only, but I used to try again and again. And only after that I used to look at the solution. And this is a rule I follow in my classroom even today. Almost 80% of my students master LR within a month itself. They take a couple of more months after that to develop speed, but they all master accuracy within a month by following this same rule. And I never teach theory for LR in my class - absolutely zero.
Do that. Make it a hard rule. Do not see solutions, do not try to trace steps or learn methodologies. LR requires repeated thinking - at a very very deep level. Just like the game of chess, if you give up early, you don't learn anything but if keep thinking and trying, you master the game.
Do that and within a month you will be solving CAT level sets.