Self-study
I just scored a 150 on PT138, blind review much higher.
Any good strats for practicing and getting better doing the questions timed?
Thank you in advance.
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I just scored a 150 on PT138, blind review much higher.
Any good strats for practicing and getting better doing the questions timed?
Thank you in advance.
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As Alexandra said, this sounds like a significant issue with how you're reading and processing the stim and passage. I'd recommend you putting aside trying to do full PTs and focus just on drilling translating stims and not even trying to do the question itself so you can improve timing and accuracy in processing the information you are going to need to use to answer a question.
I don't know the easiest way to do this on 7Sage but when I did my first round of studying leading up to my first go at the LSAT in November I did drills just reading through stims, translating them, and coming up with prephrases. A prephrase isn't necessarily going to set you up for the question but it ingrained a habit of me needing to take in the stim, translate it accurately, and have a concept of what the question would be focused on.
Focusing just on translating allows you to focus on honing those skills without tainting questions for future use, better allocate your limited studying time, and get yourself to the next level faster so that you can tackle those questions better than you would have otherwise trying to do it all at once.
This is obviously outside of utilizing 7Sage but I spent a weeks if not a month and change doing these translation drills (there's more basic versions of the drills and more advanced ones). I attribute most of my 160 in Novemeber to these drills even though I used old materials on paper, never did the test on computer before test day, and had some obnoxious test day jitters.
hey! are you reading everything clearly, like every word? I used to have the same issue as you with my timed practices, until i realized I was subconsciously skimming the AC's and falling for trap answers that were almosttt correct, but had one word that made it wrong/irrelevant etc. 4 star Q's love doing that I've noticed haha.
But yeah, idk if this is relevant to your situation, so im sorry if its not, but slowing down to read every word def helped me esp when I was confused between two possible ac's!
Also idk if this applies to you either but are you the kind of person that changes your answer last second cuz it "doesn't feel right"? I used to do that a lot in my timed practice (due to stress) until a tutor told me to stop and just go with my gut instincts lol. If you cant find something wrong with the AC, just choose it.
Good luck!