Self-study
is it just me that does so well on drills but sees very little improvements on practice lsats?
almost on every drill that i do, i only get 1-2 wrong, or even get everything right, but when i take a practice lsat, i miss a lot more. i'm just wondering if anyone else is having the same problems, and what you did to improve.
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they require differnet mindsets entirely. drills are a sprint, prep tests are a marathon. additionally, doing drills with intention helps. are you keeping a wrong answer journal? if i do drills for a question type im weak at, i get less of them wrong the next time I take a PT
@ionicinstinct
thanks for the response!
i have been keeping a wrong answer journal, and it's always different types of questions that i get wrong. i also make sure to try drills for specific question types that i find the most difficult (necessary assumption and parallel), and i also do questions that are all mixed to make it seem more like the real LSAT. the thing is with drills, i do around 25 questions to make it seem more like a real LR/RC question set, but i guess having to do back to back questions is really draining me. however, i would think that i would at least do the same on the first section of a practice LSAT as i would on a drill since it's the first set i'm doing. still, i miss a lot more on practice LSATs than on the 25+ question drills.
i guess i just have to keep working on not burning out.
@sandypickle yeah I do drills in sets of 5 minimum and 12 maximum (usually 5). if i consistently get them wrong, i go back on the syllabus and my notes to see where my thinking is wrong. everything in the syllabus genuinely helps, especially tests like the negation test for NA questions. the smaller drill sets for me mean im really just testing my logic, not my endurance. that i test only in PTs.
Same problem, I definitely think it's because drills are generally done with fewer questions and you may spend more time on each question giving your brain a break between sets. Still working on this but something that has helped is mentally breaking up a LR section into 5 separate 5 question drills (like in my head telling myself "ok I have done 5, which is just 1 drill, time to move onto another 5 question drill, and so forth). To me this removes the pressure of a whole section, while allowing me to focus more on the question without thinking too much about how many more I have left. BUT this is not an approach that works every time lol. It just makes a large LR section more feasible mentally.
@PriyankaPatel
thanks for the response! i'll definitely try working on my mindset because i think it'll help to try breaking things up.