Self-study
I feel like I could cry! From beginning at 148, getting stuck in 160s hell, and now this! Studying for the LSAT over the past months has definitely felt like an exercise in patience and endurance, but I'm happy with the progress I've been making!
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Congratulations! Do you have any advice on time management? I get all the questions correct untimed but the time limit gives me anxiety:(
This is amazing, congratulations!
@angantous Thank you!!
Congrats! I started with the same diagnostic, how long ago did you start studying and what was some studying strategies that worked best for you? Any help appreciated :)
@srios Hello! I first took the LSAT YEARS ago when LG was still a section, so I already had some understanding of the test; I hadn’t really studied since then until October/November of last year, so I've been studying for around 7ish months.
I was very intentional about learning ALL the question types and how to answer them, then drilling on individual question types until I was comfortable (ex: practicing flaw q’s over and over until I got good). I actually didn’t PT very much in the beginning because I wanted to work on accuracy, so I did A LOT of untimed practice. I noticed that once my accuracy got better, so did my time management and score!
Once you practice the question types enough, you start noticing patterns which makes it easier! This might not work for everyone, but it definitely helped me!
Congrats!!
@Studiousstudent Thank you so much!
Thats awesome! Congrats! My baseline score is 148 now, so this gives me some hope!
@kikamorim If you're anything like me, you really DO have to be EXTREMELY patient and kind to yourself!!! You got this!
congrats!
@DestinyLindsey Thank you so much!
Congratulations! How ling have you been prepping and how many full PT's have you taken? My highest so far is 169 .... working hard to get into the 170's! Any inspo appreciated.
@MariaO’Brien Hi Maria, thank you so much! I don't PT very often (personal preference), but I think I've done around 10-15 full PTs! I actually prefer to do 90% of my studying as untimed drilling, which helped to improve my accuracy, and better accuracy helps with timing!
Some advice I received that helped me break out of the 160s was to be confident in my answers. For a lot of questions, I used to second-guess myself and switch answers, but now I just tell myself to stick with the first answer I chose and trust myself, which has yielded better results. Additionally, you need to know yourself and what works best for you! For example, I know some people advise against reading the questions first (which I understand), but that was the only thing that really worked for me in analyzing arguments.
Also, I've seen many 170+ scorers say that what also pushed them out of the 160s, in addition to knowledge of the question types, was just testing over and over again! Now, I PT every week, and I get more familiar with certain AC patterns and question types, which definitely helped my score go up.
My highest score before this was 168, and I could not for the life of me figure out how to increase it T_T! But once you get better at the pattern recognition gained through constant test exposure, the results WILL show themselves. You got this!
@Zenaida-Macroura Did you keep redoing ones you missed or did you always try fresh questions?
@KMayo I've only done fresh questions! I actually haven't tried re-doing previous questions that I missed because I (personally) feel that understanding why I got it wrong the first time is enough to help me with future questions, but I see no harm in doing that!