How did you fix an LR execution gap where your Blind Review is much stronger than your first pass — even when untimed?
I’m early in my LSAT prep and currently drilling LR untimed. I’ve noticed that my Blind Review/re-review reasoning is consistently better than my initial answers, even though my initial drills are already unlimited time.
The issue doesn’t seem to be that I don’t understand the question types. When I review a miss without seeing the correct answer or explanation, I usually identify what went wrong and change to the correct answer. My recurring mistakes are things like:
compressing language in the stimulus too early and losing an important relationship
reading two similar but meaningfully different concepts as the same (how long something formed v. when it formed or attempt v. success)
overlooking a word/phrase in an answer choice that changes what it means
understanding an argument better on the second read and then realizing my original AC was based on a slightly different representation of it (making the wrong AC sound right basically)
I’m intentionally not working on speed yet. I want to make the reasoning I’m capable of during BR happen reliably on the first encounter.
If you had this problem, what specifically helped? Did you use a checklist, change how you read/translate stimuli, force yourself to verify answer choices against the stimulus, do smaller drill sets, keep a particular kind of wrong-answer journal, etc.?
I’m more interested in concrete habits that eventually became automatic rather than just “slow down/read carefully.” You can still say the latter though.
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