Self-study
When I am doing drills and I get my results from the drill, I am noticing that I got some of the questions right the first time even though the question is circled in pink during the Blind Review portion of the drill. Is this so they try to trick you into changing your answer? This whole time I thought any questions that are circled for the Blind Review portion needed to be changed because they are wrong.
Can someone confirm please? Thank you!
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BR will choose questions you took too long to answer, answered too quickly, changed answers multiple time, and/or got wrong. The value of the BR is to review ones to make sure you're certain in untimed conditions, even if you got it right! You can hover over the circle to see the 'reason' it will indicate if you got it wrong.
In theory you are not meant to check and do the BR questions without knowing if you were right or wrong. I always checked to be honest, but that's the way BR is meant to be done!
I think that’s actually a very good feature of Blind Review.
Over the years, I’ve found that when I ask students the very simple question of, “Are you sure?”, a surprising number of them immediately assume that they should change their answer choice.
But that’s not really the point of the question.
The point is not, “You’re probably wrong.” The point is, “Did you arrive at this answer through a clear enough process that you can confidently stand behind it?”
And that distinction matters a lot.
One of the skills students have to develop on the LSAT is decisiveness. Not impulsiveness, but the ability to properly think through a question, arrive at an answer choice, and stay locked in on that choice unless there’s a real structural reason to move away from it.
A lot of students, especially under timed conditions, start hovering mentally between answer choices. The moment they feel even a tiny impulse of uncertainty, they immediately assume another answer choice must be better.
That creates hesitation, second-guessing, and instability throughout the section.
So I actually think it’s a very good idea that Blind Review includes questions you originally got correct even when there’s no indication that timing or answer-changing was involved.
Sometimes the issue isn’t whether you got the question right. Sometimes the issue is whether your process was stable and decisive enough to withstand self-doubt.
And I’ll also say this: when your prep is properly structured from the top down, with a process that continuously propels you toward the correct answer while placing guardrails against trap answers and second-guessing, your ability to confidently stand by your answer choice increases dramatically.
In the Blind Review portion of the desk you can hover over the circled question number, and it will tell you why it was highlighted for BR. Reasons could be answering incorrectly, taking too long, changing your answer often, answering way too fast, and there may be more I don't remember. Unless you have many questions to BR, I prefer not to check the reason and try to reason through the question with no time constraint, squeezing everything out of the question and the ACS. Most of the time, I will know then if I got it wrong or if it was circled for a different reason.