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I am taking my second attempt in August but I feel like I have exhausted most of the questions and PTs available on 7sage. A lot of questions I can probably revisit because it has been a while since I first saw them, but I am worried that when I take a full length PT I will be thrown off by the familiarity of certain RC passages or LR stimuli.
What is the best way too approach studying for a retake after having gone through so much of the available content the first time around? Are there any other sites (lawhub, demon, etc) that have a solid amount of unfamiliar content?
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Hello!
On top of all the great things others said, I want to say that revisiting PTs are extremely helpful. However, even if it feels like you remember a stimulus or passage, you will likely still miss a few questions again, or even miss a question you previously got right. At least that was my case, and it helped me refine my strategies and recall some key logics that I have forgotten.
Furthermore, if you do remember a question, that is actually a great opportunity. It forces you to back-track and explicitly prove why a certain answer choice is correct, which builds deep logical muscle memory.
I hope this helps, and good luck!
@SerinJ Good to know. I think my biggest issue with seeing familiar questions is that my brain will automatically focus on one or two answer choices and I feel like its impossible to treat it like a problem I'd see on the real thing. Thanks for the tips
LawHub has a lot of drills that don't show up in the 7Sage materials. Have you tried those? They're listed under 'Drill Sets' to the right of 'Full Tests' when you're in the LSAT Prep section.
@ITTutoring I have not, thanks for the tip
Hey there! There are a finite number of LSAT questions that are made available by LSAC. No matter what study service you're using, they're pulling from the same pool of questions, so unless a service is making up their own questions (this might exist, but if there does I have no knowledge of it), you're not going to encounter unfamiliar questions.
If you haven't already, you can take a look at questions from the older (2-digit) PTs. Those questions aren't as reflective of the modern test, but they're still useful practice.
I'd take a look at the clean (or mostly-clean) PTs you have left, and save 1-3 for closer to the exam. The unfortunate reality is that depending on how long you've been studying for, you're going to reencounter questions you've seen before. The good news is that if it's been a few months, what you remember from a given stimulus is negligible.
When you do encounter questions you've seen before on a PT, keep that in mind when looking at your score. Give less credence to the overall score, and more to the questions you're still getting wrong.
I hope that's at least somewhat helpful, and good luck in August!
@PhoebeHopp that's what I figured. thanks!