Self-study
Given that we know the relative difficulty distribution of questions (~15-20 is where it gets tough), has anyone tried and been successful with going straight to the harder questions?
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Given that we know the relative difficulty distribution of questions (~15-20 is where it gets tough), has anyone tried and been successful with going straight to the harder questions?
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I'm sure people have tried and done fine, but I don't think it is because they did this. Conceptually I can't find a benefit for bashing your head against hard problems first only to leave yourself with little time to solve the easy ones. The harder questions won't take less time just because you do them first. The easy questions are worth exactly 1 point like the hard ones, so why not guarantee you get them first and then move on?
I don't think you can find a trick that makes questions faster without getting better at the LSAT. Reordering doesn't make you any faster.
I've been doing this and I have gone from missing 10 questions per section to more like 5. I noticed the harder questions at the end were harder for me to focus on 20 mins into the test.
I do LR sections backward 🤫. Certainly wouldn't recommend that for everyone, but experimentation in general is super important, so it might be worth a try for you.
I did that for a bit during timed test, but I found that following the test and warming up with the easier ones first yielded better results
I will say tho, for RC, I go for the reading with the most questions first (to allow myself the most amount of time). Then I move to second longest. then I do the easier one that is left (to lock in easy points). that improved my score by 4 points on average actually.
Best of luck!
I drilled using only the 3-5 difficulty level LR questions for about 2 months, and it has made it soooooo much easier to breeze through the first 12-15 questions on LR sections.