@pinkpanther Honestly I'm not very sure. When I was stuck in the 160s, I finished PTs feeling just as good as I did on this PT. Actually, on this PT I didn't feel great about it.
Maybe one change I've really tried to implement is sitting with questions I got wrong for longer and asking myself what I could do differently to prevent it in the future. But also things have "just clicked" for me on this recent PT (I'm noticing trap answers more, seeing small distinctions between 2 attractive ACs, etc.).
Keep practicing intentionally with a mixed of timed and untimed drills, and I'm sure your score will increase. Good luck!
@pinkpanther I was staunchly stuck at 161 for MONTHS (8 to be exact) and honestly, pulling back on studying helped me a lot. I took a break from LSAT for other reasons but, when I came back to it after a while of not touching it (a month or so... I know...), I came at it with a fresh mind and broke my plateau by 5-6 points on PTs and went from consistently scoring -5 to -7 on LR sections -2 to -4 average.
Overstudying and fatigue is real. Give yourself a break and if you're consistently missing something, go back to the curriculum. The curriculum has a TON of information that, when you're initially learning, is a lot to soak up and you will ignore important informationunintentionally.
I was consistently messing up on conditional reasoning questions and I had to do my own digging (since conditional reasoning is a broad category) to realize my weak point was in conjunctions and disjunctions, something that felt self explanatory when I was learning it so I skimmed it and didn't fully take the time to commit to memory. Once I reviewed it and committed it to memory, my scores improved drastically on individual sections, drills, and full PTs.
The feeling of breaking the plateau is worth the work please believe me. You've got this!
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Jealous. Congrats on the slow and steady progress and trusting the process. Hoping I can slowly work my way up there by October.
@Adam Thank you and good luck!
That’s amazing! Any tips on how you did it? Currently stuck in the low 160s on PTs and trying to hit 170 official
@pinkpanther Honestly I'm not very sure. When I was stuck in the 160s, I finished PTs feeling just as good as I did on this PT. Actually, on this PT I didn't feel great about it.
Maybe one change I've really tried to implement is sitting with questions I got wrong for longer and asking myself what I could do differently to prevent it in the future. But also things have "just clicked" for me on this recent PT (I'm noticing trap answers more, seeing small distinctions between 2 attractive ACs, etc.).
Keep practicing intentionally with a mixed of timed and untimed drills, and I'm sure your score will increase. Good luck!
@pinkpanther I was staunchly stuck at 161 for MONTHS (8 to be exact) and honestly, pulling back on studying helped me a lot. I took a break from LSAT for other reasons but, when I came back to it after a while of not touching it (a month or so... I know...), I came at it with a fresh mind and broke my plateau by 5-6 points on PTs and went from consistently scoring -5 to -7 on LR sections -2 to -4 average.
Overstudying and fatigue is real. Give yourself a break and if you're consistently missing something, go back to the curriculum. The curriculum has a TON of information that, when you're initially learning, is a lot to soak up and you will ignore important information unintentionally.
I was consistently messing up on conditional reasoning questions and I had to do my own digging (since conditional reasoning is a broad category) to realize my weak point was in conjunctions and disjunctions, something that felt self explanatory when I was learning it so I skimmed it and didn't fully take the time to commit to memory. Once I reviewed it and committed it to memory, my scores improved drastically on individual sections, drills, and full PTs.
The feeling of breaking the plateau is worth the work please believe me. You've got this!