Self-study
I've been studying LSAT since November and I'm still trying to figure out how to manage time during practice tests. Everytime, I take PT or drills, I use up all my time and end with 5 to 6 questions untouched, 2 for drills, and because I'm so stressed with time, my accuracy falls and I get like 60% of the questions I answered right. Should I first focus on accuracy and then practice to solve questions quick or should I do what I do now since I can go over all questions in blind review and work on accuracy? I'd like to hear other people's thought and experience on how you study and practice.
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From what I have read in other discussion posts, this is a common question so you are not alone, and I personally had this question until I figured out what works best with own personal style and preferences, but it took from hearing from others to curate my own way to get faster (I still struggle with speed, but have gotten faster with better accuracy.)
With all those disclaimers aside, what I found most helpful was to start by drilling with easy questions and working on accuracy before moving on to speed. It is better to start with slow accuracy, rather than practicing the wrong thing, just faster.
So, accuracy first until the questions become more intuitive, then add more difficult questions, and then increase speed.
This method helped me jump drastically in scoring! I wish I learned this earlier, because I ended up practicing the wrong thing over and over and wasn't making any progress until I started super simple and focused on accuracy.
Lastly, keep doing blind review even when you are moving slowly through the questions. It is useful to solidify your answer choices so that you can gain confidence to then build speed. The goal is 100 percents in blind reviews-push those blind reviews as high of score as possible.
Also remember to keep a wrong answer journal- paraphrasing my mistakes and then re-writing them to make them correct helped solidify the right answers for me to help build my intuition to then build speed.
Happy testing!
@BethTaylor Thanks for replying! Would you work on easy questions for accuracy with no time limit or should I still set timer for those easy questions?
@dongdonge1996 No problem! Try no timer until you get every question right; then maybe try a timer and then move on to the next level of questions? Up to you to decide what would work better for you whether you try with a timer after you get each level correct, or move all the way through each level only working on accuracy and then using a timer after you find accuracy with 5 star questions.
@BethTaylor can you print 7sage notes? how do you create your mistake journal?