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Hello everyone!
I'm taking my first LSAT Jan 10th and have been studying for months, but I can't get a grasp on timing.
When I PT without time, I average a very high score compared to when I PT with time.
I have always had test anxiety, which has gone away with being in uni. Unfortunately, with the LSAT, it seems to have come back.
My mind does not let me truly understand and read even the simplest of phrases, which has me get easy questions wrong, and run out of time on my RC.
Not sure what to do... has anyone had this issue, and what did you do??
Thanks!
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Hey, I had the same problem on my first attempt and especially with RC, these are some things I have done to work on it.
For RC, pretend like whatever the passage is saying is the most interesting thing you have ever read in your life. Lowkey toxic way of approaching it, but gaslighting yourself into thinking the topic is so interesting makes you want to understand it better and also helps with timing.
The second thing I did was truly honing in on understanding the passage before I even moved onto the questions. Sometimes this might mean spending up to 5 minutes just reading and re-reading the passage until I have a very firm grasp on what it is talking about and then only will I even move onto the questions. using this technique, I have been able to bring down my RC timing while maintaining accuracy (because I won't need to spend as much time reading the question, the right answer will quite literally show itself when you understand the passage well).
With LR, I try to do the first 15 questions in 15 minutes, leaving 20 minutes for the remaining 10 ish questions at the end (which are generally harder).
General tip: Reading the Economist/Espresso (the free version for students) regularly, and doing puzzles on a daily basis also helps keep my brain sharp has also helped. The other thing I noticed also was that spending less time on social media, and avoiding doomscrolling definitely helps with focus and fixing your attention span and being able to understand the convoluted passages that RC sections present.
Hope this helps, and good luck!
OMG we are having the same problem rn. idk lmk if you figure it out, rn i am reading permutation city which is a interesting but hard to read sci fi and then making myself summarize the past few pages time to time. at the very least it has given me back the confidence that I can read LOL.