Self-study
Hi everyone,
A few years ago, I took a diagnostic test and scored 139. I then signed up for 7Sage and finished the CC in a couple of months but never PTed. Life got in the way and I stopped my studies. I recently picked it up again and started by reading the PowerScore LR and I really liked it. I just took a PT/diagnostic and I scored 150. Still not great but actually happy that I am not scoring 139 now.
Anyways, I am wondering what my studying should start looking like. I am starting my PhD in August and I am planning to apply for law school in the fall of 2027. I will have the next 6-8 weeks to study a bit, and also planning to block of next summer for LSAT. I am also hoping to find 1-2 hours daily during my PhD this upcoming year to study for LSAT.
For my study plan, I am wondering if I should start with drilling and practice with wrong answer journal or do I have to do the CC again? I don't remember much from the CC but I actually preferred PowerScore. When I took the PT, I honestly didn't think a lot about the different questions types and just tried to answer as quickly and as best as I can. So not sure what would be the most useful next steps.
Any advice would be appreciated!!
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I would review your PT and analytics to see if any question types came up as priorities for you. For example, did you notice that you did noticeably worse on weaken questions? If so, would be confident explaining what the question is asking and where you went wrong? If not, I would do a quick review on these areas. You have quite a bit of time if you'll be taking the LSAT next year, so it's worth getting the foundations solidly in place now. If you don't have a defined approach for each question type, focus first on making sure that you have that in place.
Once you've done that, you can get started with drilling! If you haven't yet, consider generating a custom study plan using our tool under the "Study" tab. You can customize this to your time constraints, and it'll take your analytics into account. The more you drill on the platform, the more accurate they'll become.
@LowriThomas Thank you for your reply. The analytics doesn't show me my priority area by question type but it shows my priority should conditional reasoning and phenomena-hypothesis. The reason why I don't have a defined approach for each question type is there are so many of them, and it is hard to remember and not confuse how I am supposed to approach each question types, especially when I am taking a PT and there is time constraints and I just forget to even pay attention to questions types and just try to answer the questions intuitively. I haven't done my BR for the the PT I just took so that might show me a different experience.
7Sage has also changed quite a bit since I have last used it. I saw that there is a "Practice Block" feature that generates automatic practices. How do you suggest I use that? Do I make that my main study method? and go back to CC when I need to focus on theory or remember approaches to questions.
I am a bit worried about spending a few months on CC and theory only to forget them cause that was my experience the first time around. I felt like I was just watching lessons and drilling things here and there but never really internalized it.