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I have completed the core lessons, I will be taking the January LSAT, I did my first PT 2 weeks ago and got 146 BR 155, then last week I got a 142 BR 153, and today I got a 138 BR 153 yet, whats going on? I thought I was getting a hang of it. I am crashing out, Aiming for 149-155. Any sugguestion whats wrong with me?? Please dont sugguest to restart with fundamentals, I get that but man this is not normal!
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This is a great thread and especially I think what Kevin said is pretty much gospel here. But for me when I was (and I'm sure I will be again at some point) experiencing this, I opted to now use 7Sage's wrong answer journal template in the "notes" section of each question on every question I got wrong. Seems simple I know. Then I got magically blessed on TikTok one day to just ask myself "why did I think this?" on every single question I got both right and wrong. Review should take you longer than answering the questions does! For me, understanding what review ACTUALLY means has been the hardest part.
Best of luck!
In addition to the great advice of @haena and @Arianaeft, I'd encourage you to spend even more time reviewing your mistakes. You're probably getting enough wrong on each PT that it should take at least 10 - 15 hours just to break down and deeply understand all of those mistakes. It's not enough to just look at the short written explanations or to browse the video explanations -- do you understand your mistakes well enough that you could write out exactly what you did wrong and what you were supposed to do/think? Can you write out a step by step explanation for how to get to the correct answer for all of those mistakes? Hold yourself to a high standard of understanding. There's no point in taking another PT unless you've done this kind of review for the previous PTs.
Also, from looking at your analytics, it looks like you're trying to finish each section and spending about the same time on each question that someone who's in the 160s or 170s would take. That's the wrong approach right now -- you'll get a better score and improve your understanding of the test if you forget about trying to finish each question in the 35-minute limit. Your skills just aren't there yet -- forcing yourself to try to answer every question guarantees that you'll read too fast, misunderstand arguments, pick answers without fully thinking them through etc.
Hi, this happened to me too (and still does)! Nothing is wrong with you, this is just the unfortunate part of studying for this exam. I found that once I actually started learning the material and doing the steps to solve a problem, I was getting more of them wrong -- either because of timing or because I just applied the wrong skills. I don't think you need to restart with fundamentals if you feel like you have grasped them, but I think that practicing more targeted drills and completing sections before building your stamina for full PTs will help! Also, you did your first PT only a few weeks ago! Give yourself some grace, you are doing great at the pace that you are going :)
Hi! Sending you luck and warmth here, friend, and do not panic. This happens to almost all of us for a number of different reasons.
For one, maybe you've taken these PTs in different conditions - tired, stressed, etc. It sucks how much these auxiliary things impact our performance but they really do! As another note, were they older vs. newer PTs? Were they featuring more or less questions of the types that you excel at vs. struggle with? What kinds of mistakes were common to the tests, what was different? This is just another learning experience for your prep, as opposed to proof you've mysteriously gotten worse - we've been there!
Also, usually when we focus on one thing at the "expense" of others (like doing more RC over LR; drilling one type consistently) there can be some fluctuations in other aspects, which as I've seen is also just all part of the process. It will all come together soon!