Last PT before test day! I was feeling super discouraged because my previous PT was below my average, but lowering volume and anxiety levels does wonders!
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Last PT before test day! I was feeling super discouraged because my previous PT was below my average, but lowering volume and anxiety levels does wonders!
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You are OFFICIALLY who I’m aspiring to be! Congrats!
This is so awesome. I don't even know you, but I'm proud of you! 😊
@A.T.Branch thank you!
You got this!!! I believe in you!
So wonderful! Congratulations :)
Congratulations 🎆
This is phenomenal congratulations!! Rooting for you!!
@GiuliaRizzo thank you!! Likewise!
OMG YAYYYYYY
@raibay 🫶
BOSS!
So I got to ask how did you lower you anxiety levels
@BoazMouzon same pls give us ur tips
@BoazMouzon @AshmiBoora825 tbh I still really struggle with it, but I commented something on an earlier post that I think helps: I always try to remind myself that this is just a test, and is in no way a measure of intelligence, value, or future success. It will not make or break your life!
Congrats!
RC tips?
@SelinI idk if this will help you, but I invest a lot of time into my upfront read of the passage (about 2-3 minutes) and pause to really internalize information before moving onto the next sentence/paragraph. Then the questions come more easily. I'm not a tutor or anything - this is just what works for me!
@plantpreps @SelinI
Great advice! I would tag onto this by saying: anything that implies the author's opinion is worth a slight note or highlight, because there's always a question about where the author stands. When you're reading, ask whether they're in favor of, against, or neutral toward the overall stance. I'd also try to catch adverbs like "amazingly" or "stupidly," because a lot of the time those are opinion indicators.
The biggest thing is to fully comprehend what you're reading. If you read a sentence and don't understand it, don't rush ahead to the next one, because then you're just expanding your misunderstanding. Something that helps me a ton on more abstract passages is to make them satirical and visualize what's happening. On a really difficult passage the other day, I remember tying it to Donald Trump because it was funny and made it easier to remember, since I came up with it myself.
My biggest advice is to take the time you need to fully understand the passage before answering the questions. You have about 8.75 minutes per passage, but there's no "strict time" you should be reading it in. Three minutes, four, six, it doesn't matter. If you read it in two, great, but did you understand it? If it took you five, great, but did you understand it? I'd rather take six minutes to read and fully understand, then two minutes to answer, than rush through and miss things I would've otherwise caught and get questions wrong because of it.
Hope this helps! :)
Congratulations!!!
Wow tips??for both LR and RC
@fart180 I focus on super deep review of my mistakes and flagged questions! I flag any question that I'm not 100% sure on and review almost as if I got it wrong (what trap answers did I consider and why? did I misread or miss something? why did it not "click"?). I've recently lowered my volume dramatically and have been spending more time on review, which I think has helped with both learning from my mistakes and minimizing cognitive fatigue. For more RC-specific tips, I would check out @Shardison's comment below -- he articulates good RC strategy better than I ever could haha
hulllo user plantpreps! im always super inspired and impressed by your consistency whenever i see your posts. ive been scoring in the low to high 170s over the past few weeks because i occasionally get effed by a -4 or -5 LR section out of the blue. are there any crumbs of wisdom you'd like to share with us on increasing your consistency in LR??? also congrats on the 180!! im sure youre gonna crush the real LSAT.
@beecah Thank you!! congrats on the 170s, that's great! I still have a bit of inconsistency too, but I've found that actually doing fewer questions and spending less time studying helped me. The cognitive fatigue is so real
Best of luck on your exam!!
@ScarlettKr Thank you! Best of luck to you too (whenever you're taking it)!
How many hours in total would you say you studied? Also what was your diagnostic?
@L7Gabara hey! I would say maybe 350-400 hours? diagnostic 165.
Congrats! What was you're method for getting this good btw?
@DavidHeath Thank you! I really don't do anything out of the ordinary haha - but what helped the test (especially LR) kind of "click" for me was thoroughly reviewing my mistakes! I stopped wrong answer journaling because it just didn't work for me, but I review all of my flagged and incorrect answers until I basically know the question well enough to teach it to someone else. Also, I flag every single question that I'm not 100% sure about.
@plantpreps Thank you for sharing! I’ve reached a point where I’m stuck so maybe implementing a strategy like yours could help me.