I think I have a problem. Whenever I try questions, I have the habit of looking at the score to see if I got it right or not. If I get it right, then I watch videos and move on, but if I don’t get it right, then I blind review after knowing I got it wrong and what I chose. When I do the blind review, I almost always get it right. I think this is unhealthy. Does anyone have any advice on this? Thanks.
@5a_san I personally always check the score before blind reviewing to save myself time. Often times I find myself getting it right in the blind review because I don't feel the time constraint and actually give myself the ability to sit down and really mull over each answer choice carefully. I don't necessarily see a problem with this approach as I still feel myself improving.
@JessM Maybe I am doing this wrong, but right now I am not focusing on timing at all for these questions. Instead I am focusing on really understanding the stimulus and deciding on an answer that I am 100% sure is correct. If I'm not sure, I don't move on. As I do this, my times are naturally coming down, but this drill I was over anywhere from 4 seconds to 50 seconds, but I knew I got 5/5 before checking my results.
@5a_san I BR every time (without looking at the score), but focus only on the questions that are circled in red. They can be circled in red either because I got it wrong or because I spent too much time on that question.
Having that doubt about whether I actually got it wrong or not forces me to think about the stim a little deeper than if I had known for sure I got it wrong already, in which case I would probably just choose the other answer choice that I was close to picking originally.
If nothing is circled in red, then yay, I did well, I move on, unless there is a question that really stumped me that I'd like to hear the explanation for.
I also try to answer as fast as I can on the orignal question/drill, like I would on a practice LSAT, because I believe that's the only way I can get my brain to reason the same way it will when actually taking the LSAT. BR is an opportunity to actually really take my time with these questions.
3/5 then 5/5 BR . I dont know how to stop second guessing my answers. If i had just listened to my intuition i would have gotten 5/5 the first time ugh
I got a 4/5 (80%) did the blind review and it said i had 3 questions wrong to now see I got 4 right and changed the 3 blind review questions and then got those wrong because i was already correct ...
@JoshuaFedrick If a question gets marked for blind review, it's either because you got it wrong, took too long answering, changed your answer too many times, or all 3 haha. It's odd ngl.
@Arthurxx I got 3/4 on the "You Try's" and 5/5 on this drill, so here is what has helped me thus far:
Unfortunately, the lessons do an ineffective job in explaining MOR clearly, so I just took my time to "decipher" the Theory and Approach and Review section into my own words. Once you do this, you will realize that the goal of MOR is to simply figure out what happened in the author's argument; that's it.
Take your time to look at each answer choice, then ask yourself "Did this ever happen?" If it never did, move on to the next until you find one that did happen.
Again, you just need to figure out what the author is doing in their arguments, which is where the distinct reasonings may come into play; the author may either use one of the reasonings or none of them at all.
#feedback - This is the 3rd lesson drill I've been in where multiple of the questions are ones that we already reviewed in the lesson. Please fix this so that all 5 questions are fresh!
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I think I have a problem. Whenever I try questions, I have the habit of looking at the score to see if I got it right or not. If I get it right, then I watch videos and move on, but if I don’t get it right, then I blind review after knowing I got it wrong and what I chose. When I do the blind review, I almost always get it right. I think this is unhealthy. Does anyone have any advice on this? Thanks.
@5a_san I personally always check the score before blind reviewing to save myself time. Often times I find myself getting it right in the blind review because I don't feel the time constraint and actually give myself the ability to sit down and really mull over each answer choice carefully. I don't necessarily see a problem with this approach as I still feel myself improving.
@JessM Maybe I am doing this wrong, but right now I am not focusing on timing at all for these questions. Instead I am focusing on really understanding the stimulus and deciding on an answer that I am 100% sure is correct. If I'm not sure, I don't move on. As I do this, my times are naturally coming down, but this drill I was over anywhere from 4 seconds to 50 seconds, but I knew I got 5/5 before checking my results.
@JaymeBlazek i don't think there's a wrong way to do it as long as you see improvement!
@5a_san I BR every time (without looking at the score), but focus only on the questions that are circled in red. They can be circled in red either because I got it wrong or because I spent too much time on that question.
Having that doubt about whether I actually got it wrong or not forces me to think about the stim a little deeper than if I had known for sure I got it wrong already, in which case I would probably just choose the other answer choice that I was close to picking originally.
If nothing is circled in red, then yay, I did well, I move on, unless there is a question that really stumped me that I'd like to hear the explanation for.
I also try to answer as fast as I can on the orignal question/drill, like I would on a practice LSAT, because I believe that's the only way I can get my brain to reason the same way it will when actually taking the LSAT. BR is an opportunity to actually really take my time with these questions.
3/5 then 5/5 BR . I dont know how to stop second guessing my answers. If i had just listened to my intuition i would have gotten 5/5 the first time ugh
4/5 165 equivalent, cant be mad at that.
I got a 4/5 (80%) did the blind review and it said i had 3 questions wrong to now see I got 4 right and changed the 3 blind review questions and then got those wrong because i was already correct ...
@JoshuaFedrick If a question gets marked for blind review, it's either because you got it wrong, took too long answering, changed your answer too many times, or all 3 haha. It's odd ngl.
first drill in a while I have got most of them correct, 4/5 let's get it!!
Does the LSAT refer to actual studies? I feel like I keep learning kinda cool tidbits. I liked the baby babbling thing
@brodypringle I can't say for all of them, but every scientific fact mentioned in LSAT questions that I have looked up turned out to be real!
burger 5/5
5/5 lfg!
5/5 finally
This is literally the first 5/5 I've ever gotten on the drills I've done so far for the various question types! Finallyyy
5/5 we got this!
First ever 5/5 on one of these drills TURN ME UP
2/5 BR 5/5 I should probably not even type this but I do not like these type of questions what so ever, they are way too confusing for me.,
5/5!
first 5/5. there is hope lets goooooooo!!!!
5/5 LESSGOOO
5/5 after constantly struggling with these LETS GOOO
Back to back 5/5s LFGGGG
5/5 AYYYYYYY
What's everyone strategy on these? I can't seem to get these and NA questions so far.
@Arthurxx Negation for NA and piecemeal analysis for MoR.
@Arthurxx I got 3/4 on the "You Try's" and 5/5 on this drill, so here is what has helped me thus far:
Unfortunately, the lessons do an ineffective job in explaining MOR clearly, so I just took my time to "decipher" the Theory and Approach and Review section into my own words. Once you do this, you will realize that the goal of MOR is to simply figure out what happened in the author's argument; that's it.
Take your time to look at each answer choice, then ask yourself "Did this ever happen?" If it never did, move on to the next until you find one that did happen.
Again, you just need to figure out what the author is doing in their arguments, which is where the distinct reasonings may come into play; the author may either use one of the reasonings or none of them at all.
First 5/5, I'm going to cry tears of joy!
first ever 5/5 on a drill!!!!!! this helped my motivation SO much omg
got a 5/5 but the way i was under time for the hardest question yet over time for the easiest question is a little strange lol
@ravenowens a win is a win ig right?!
5/5 Lets gooo
#feedback - This is the 3rd lesson drill I've been in where multiple of the questions are ones that we already reviewed in the lesson. Please fix this so that all 5 questions are fresh!
^^^^