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Good afternoon everyone. i've been studying for the LSAT for at least a year now and i've been practicing using Lawhub and 7sage. As of now my LR sections barely improved and im still between 10-15 per section. If you scored high, what have you done better that is different? how do you read each question? I got a test coming in January but im gonna probably register for March because that is my last real chance for a good score
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Tutors can be really really expensive, but I will say that my most significant jump was from meeting with a tutor who could pinpoint patterns in what I was doing wrong. I could only meet with him a couple times, but even within a few sessions he was able to tell me the kinds of mistakes that I was making. Turns out, I needed to go through the foundations again and start memorizing indicators and argument structures. This let me understand why I was getting both 'easy' and 'hard' questions wrong, and it allowed me to speed up too. There are some tutors in this discussions tab who are offering services for a much more affordable price, so I would consider checking them out!
Side note, some people have been suggesting using ChatGPT to help identify your weak spots. I have recently started doing that, and it's a really affordable way to get some feedback! BUT, you have to be really careful because it can lead you to make repeat mistakes or to develop bad habits. I wouldn't be too overly reliant on it, but to use it as a tool in conjunction with your other studies.
My tutor also told me that I had to stop thinking that I was looking for the best answer, but to instead look for the only answer. I was often down to two choices and picking the wrong one, but it was because I was being too generous with the wrong answer and trying to justify it. Once I became more picky about correct answers, and accepting that there is only ONE right answer, the answer came to me more easily.
I think what is more important to remember is that you have been studying for a year, so you definitely know the material. You are familiar with question types, the format of the exam. Now you are just trying to put the puzzle pieces together! Don't be discouraged that it's taking a while or that your year-long studies feel fruitless (we all feel this way!). You are making progress, even if it's not showing up in your score.
One more thing, I found that reading other LSAT materials, like Mike Kim and the Loophole can be helpful because they are explaining the same thing but with different wording. I can't say for sure which one, but it started clicking for me after I just kept exposing myself to a variety of approaches to LSAT studying.
I am in the exact situation as you I am glad to hear I am not alone
Don’t waste time on methods that aren’t working for you. I jumped 10 points in a week when I stopped diagramming on paper. It was causing me to get confused and make too many mistakes and I realized I was much better at connecting the chains mentally. This won’t necessarily be the thing that works for you. I only bring it up to show you that it’s as simple as recognizing which methods are holding you back and finding new ones. Good luck!🌟
Hi! Here are a few things that I've found, or have heard from others, to be beneficial:
If going quickly/"at time" produces a lot of wrong answers, go slow to go fast. Everyone says that, but it can truly cause a perspective shift, especially in RC where minute details are often the focus of ACs. Read line by line, connect every sentence to what came before and after; read within context, and not focusing on the content so much as the structure of the passage, and how everything serves other pieces (like analyzing the ingredient spread for baking a cake, and then main point q's/etc will ask you to reflect on the cake itself, but usually still in a manner that will highlight prominent ingredients). For LR, also go slow on the stimulus: don't move on to the questions until you know you really understand what it was saying (especially when the language is super convoluted, repeating it to yourself in your head in a manner that helps you better make sense of it). Have an idea of what the right answer may be when you go into the questions sometimes. Practicing asking yourself helps build the muscle, too!
Drill targeted weaknesses, or go back to the core curriculum/foundations for question types that you struggle with most -- and get at finding these weaknesses through #3,
Thorough blind review of every PT and section. This is tedious, but keeping a wrong answer journal of everything you get wrong, asking yourself why you gravitated towards the wrong answer, what was correct about the right one that you didn't realize, etc., really helps in the long run, and you'll find yourself avoiding similar mistakes.
Be mindful of the circumstances in which you're practicing. Often times, long evenings after work, or bright and early in the morning, I wouldn't perform at my best, and would get super upset about it, not being pragmatic about the circumstances in which I was doing prep.
Hang in there, you've got it! Be kind to yourself and keep focusing on q-types and general things that you find yourself still stuck on. Ask yourself why you got the ones you got wrong, wrong; believe in the fact that next time, it won't happen again. Rooting for you!