Self-study
I am constantly scoring in the mid-low 160s on PTs and drills. I am trying to break 170 but always seems like there's trick questions that get me. Any strategies/tips from anyone that broke into this score range that really helped them do so? More hours? Specific resources? I take the August and have been studying the past three months.
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I found that after breaking through 160, what becomes of the utmost importance are patterns. I feel like I got up to the 160s with like intuition, general knowledge, or like after the core curriculum. Breaking 170 required me to come up with patterns and specific approaches to questions, and being able to identify patterns in the stimuli which allowed me to prephrase the general direction of the question. I just think of it as the LSAT and logic can only have so many types of questions to throw at you, so once you identify the patterns, even though they change the variables, the structure stays the same.
Another thing that I had to learn the hard way was to be humble and take the LSAT beatings lol. I was devastated after scoring way below my PTs on my LSAT attempt, and I really had to take it from scratch and learn all over again. Write out your logic chains, do your low-res summaries, do your wrong answer journal. Everything that sounds cliche, works. IMO, be the robot that LSAT wants you to be, at least logically.
And finally, I'd highly suggest NOT studying alone. I went through undergrad with a lassez-faire attitude and it really bit me in the behind studying for the LSAT. Staying on top of your studying, as well as maybe tutoring/studying with other people to really solidify the concepts you have.
Good luck! Keep grinding you got this
@MarcusTsang Thanks so much for this insight
@MarcusTsang this is so helpful thank you! Can I ask what a wrong answer journal is? Do you do it for every question you get wrong, or only on PTs?