Self-study
Hello , I know it's probably a dumb question but I want to ask anyways just to make sure . I heard that In Order to get a 160 you have to get at least all the easy and medium questions right but can you afford to get the hard ones wrong? I know if somebody is trying to reach the 170s they have to get the hard ones right but for me personally a 160 a good.
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You may not know which ones are objectively the trickiest while taking it (by number of people who get it incorrect), but shooting for a 160 instead of 170 does give you some leeway that you can use in your favor. If you are able to develop a quick sense of how difficult a certain question/type of question will be for you, you can afford some skips. That's not just time you're saving that you can use on other questions, but also brain power on the overall test. For this to work, you need to really big confident in your ability to triage questions quickly, and then also be good at managing your time to know when it's effective to go back and re-evaluate the skipped questions or when to take your time to complete the section. So I'd say, certainly there are different ways to optimize the test when you're not attempting to be nearly perfect. But these methods are very personalized and can be risky.
It doesn’t matter what type of questions you get right. What matters is how many. If you focus on question type and you treat each question type as a silo, you will struggle. If you can create a clear mental framework of each stimulus type and be able to quickly and reliably identify the conclusion, the premises, and the gaps between the premises (in argument stimuli - there are other types with their own schema), then you will be able to get enough questions right to get a 160.
@AlexandraFriestman
Also, question difficulty is a lie. You will not know the difficulty of each question on the LSAT. There are questions marked here as level 1 with extremely long stimuli that seem overwhelming even if the logic is easy, and questions marked as level 5 with super simple stimuli. Question difficulty is simply a pedagogic tool, it is not something you will know on the real test.
@AlexandraFriestman the number of times a level 2 question has completely kicked my ass is humbling! everyone's going to find some questions "harder" than others mhmmmm!