I'm going to talk to you like I would myself. I am not really sure why you would expect higher at this point, or how you think you have earned it.
You are not trying hard enough. You need to put in a lot more effort.
You need to be doing the experimental section to improve stamina. The battle of attrition is a real challenge you need to build up to, and by your avoiding S4 it seems like you have not been challenging yourself in this regard.
Just look at S1 vs S3, that is fatigue! Think of this as the necessary skill building required to succeed in law school. During the semester you will have a lot of coursework and critical timelines. If you really want this you need to try a lot harder, and make sure you are making optimal use of your time when you are studying.
Stay committed cause *we* are on the right path. Take the time to go through the lessons, and blind review everything.
Use the study plan to keep you committed to a timeline and practice. Eliminate June from your mind, that will only add pressure. The problem for me is that I could do some questions, even up to highest level, and feel good about those individually, but that doesn't put it altogether.
Focus on the process, commit to it, pretend like this is law school, do what you would do there in terms of pacing and commitment.
When studying turn off your phone and place yourself in a test environment so you can fully focus. You are not focusing, you are overthinking, and you are too easily distracted. If you really want this, prove to law schools you can and should be there, we really need to earn our spot, and the rest of your classmates are going to be super committed, intelligent people, taking no days off, and we need to be like them.
I scored 157 on Prep Test 149. S1 -8, S2 -11, S3 -6, S4 -9.
As far as panicking, breathing exercises do work, even if you think they don't.
You also need a strategy for test day to avoid these spirals. But you haven't done enough practice to be familiar enough with the content or point to specifics.
On S2 & S3 did you end up spending too much time on an early questions, not allowing the time needed for the more difficult ones? Sometimes you need to acknowledge when to abandon a question after you hit certain unsure markers, and when to skip on first glance to come back to later.
Stay committed and get June out of your mind.
You are too worried about test score. Be prepared to have collapses while training and poor results, but do not hold it against yourself. You need to value these mistakes are useful information to action on.
You need to spend more time studying, and more time breaking down your mistakes.
Also even if you got optimal 75% on LR the RC is very fragile, and a collapse like on S2 would pull you right back to 154-156.. I've lived it.
Depends on how much time you have to study. I have been studying for 6 months for 1-2 hours per day and I'm in the high 160s. If you study 8 hours a hour, maybe you could increase your score faster. 170s may be unrealistic for a month, but if you push back your test date to August, it may be possible. Every point matters in terms of scholarship money, so I would always always recommend improving your score even if it means pushing back your test date.
I noticed your RC is worse than LR. I had this problem until I started doing prioritized untimed RCs, now I am at -4 to -5 per section and steadily improving. It really helps to do a one sentence summary for each paragraph, identify the overall main idea and purpose of each passage, identity the tone and perspectives, etc. Read up on the lessons in 7Sage, they really helped. Good luck!!
I'm sorry but it's incredibly unrealistic to improve an average of 10-15 points in that time frame short of something miraculous. Maybe you'll have a giant break through or you having amazing endurance and time to study but I think you're setting yourself up for disappointment if that's your target.
Getting this many questions wrong and having time issues points to at least a significant problem in your ability to quickly and efficiently translate the stimulus. You likely have other areas you can work on but it's unreasonable to focus on specifics when you need to improve on the fundamentals that you need so you can properly go through the answer choices.
I think committing a few study sessions to just translation drills (reading the stim, translating it into your own words, and then having half an idea of what your prephrase could be). You don't always need a prephrase when you actually take the test and do drills but it's a good practice to improve your ability to respond to what the question is going to be asking. After that, see how that's impacted your ability and decide if you should keep doing translation drills or move onto other aspects.
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I'm going to talk to you like I would myself. I am not really sure why you would expect higher at this point, or how you think you have earned it.
You are not trying hard enough. You need to put in a lot more effort.
You need to be doing the experimental section to improve stamina. The battle of attrition is a real challenge you need to build up to, and by your avoiding S4 it seems like you have not been challenging yourself in this regard.
Just look at S1 vs S3, that is fatigue! Think of this as the necessary skill building required to succeed in law school. During the semester you will have a lot of coursework and critical timelines. If you really want this you need to try a lot harder, and make sure you are making optimal use of your time when you are studying.
Stay committed cause *we* are on the right path. Take the time to go through the lessons, and blind review everything.
Use the study plan to keep you committed to a timeline and practice. Eliminate June from your mind, that will only add pressure. The problem for me is that I could do some questions, even up to highest level, and feel good about those individually, but that doesn't put it altogether.
Focus on the process, commit to it, pretend like this is law school, do what you would do there in terms of pacing and commitment.
When studying turn off your phone and place yourself in a test environment so you can fully focus. You are not focusing, you are overthinking, and you are too easily distracted. If you really want this, prove to law schools you can and should be there, we really need to earn our spot, and the rest of your classmates are going to be super committed, intelligent people, taking no days off, and we need to be like them.
I scored 157 on Prep Test 149. S1 -8, S2 -11, S3 -6, S4 -9.
As far as panicking, breathing exercises do work, even if you think they don't.
You also need a strategy for test day to avoid these spirals. But you haven't done enough practice to be familiar enough with the content or point to specifics.
On S2 & S3 did you end up spending too much time on an early questions, not allowing the time needed for the more difficult ones? Sometimes you need to acknowledge when to abandon a question after you hit certain unsure markers, and when to skip on first glance to come back to later.
Stay committed and get June out of your mind.
You are too worried about test score. Be prepared to have collapses while training and poor results, but do not hold it against yourself. You need to value these mistakes are useful information to action on.
You need to spend more time studying, and more time breaking down your mistakes.
Also even if you got optimal 75% on LR the RC is very fragile, and a collapse like on S2 would pull you right back to 154-156.. I've lived it.
Depends on how much time you have to study. I have been studying for 6 months for 1-2 hours per day and I'm in the high 160s. If you study 8 hours a hour, maybe you could increase your score faster. 170s may be unrealistic for a month, but if you push back your test date to August, it may be possible. Every point matters in terms of scholarship money, so I would always always recommend improving your score even if it means pushing back your test date.
I noticed your RC is worse than LR. I had this problem until I started doing prioritized untimed RCs, now I am at -4 to -5 per section and steadily improving. It really helps to do a one sentence summary for each paragraph, identify the overall main idea and purpose of each passage, identity the tone and perspectives, etc. Read up on the lessons in 7Sage, they really helped. Good luck!!
I'm sorry but it's incredibly unrealistic to improve an average of 10-15 points in that time frame short of something miraculous. Maybe you'll have a giant break through or you having amazing endurance and time to study but I think you're setting yourself up for disappointment if that's your target.
Getting this many questions wrong and having time issues points to at least a significant problem in your ability to quickly and efficiently translate the stimulus. You likely have other areas you can work on but it's unreasonable to focus on specifics when you need to improve on the fundamentals that you need so you can properly go through the answer choices.
I think committing a few study sessions to just translation drills (reading the stim, translating it into your own words, and then having half an idea of what your prephrase could be). You don't always need a prephrase when you actually take the test and do drills but it's a good practice to improve your ability to respond to what the question is going to be asking. After that, see how that's impacted your ability and decide if you should keep doing translation drills or move onto other aspects.