I can't seem to go under 1:15 per question. Very rarely I'm at 50 seconds. I seem to be stuck at 1:30 - 1:50. What are some tips you guys execute?
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I can't seem to go under 1:15 per question. Very rarely I'm at 50 seconds. I seem to be stuck at 1:30 - 1:50. What are some tips you guys execute?
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I think it comes down to understanding while having a consistent method of attack for all questions. For example, reading the question first or something like that. I find it comes with practice. I have been having fun with "tutoring" friends to help me digest the material better. These are friends who are not studying for the lsat at all and I find I've gotten good at explaining without adding jargon. Would you be interested? I wouldn't charge anything! We could treat it like a study group but I think I can help you out and teaching helps me digest info so it would help me to!
@Jurnee10 I’m interested in this!
@TSS yaay!! I'll do you!
@Jurnee10 could I please join, at least to listen lol
Hey! I am currently only doing 1:1 sessions so that they can be more focused. I had a second person dm me and I am doing 1 hr a week with them. Depending on your time zone I can fit you for an hour a week? DM me when you are planning on taking your lsat as well
Idk if this is helpful but I focus less on the time of each individual question and more about how long a chunk or set of them take. Once I started breaking up my timed sections into chunks I found I was hitting my timing goal much closer. This obv takes practice though. A lot of failing before it got better. For reference when I do a timed section this is how I break it up in my head:
1st 10 Questions in 10 minutes
2nd 10 Questions in 15 minutes
Final 5 Questions in 10 minutes
I found that this helped keep me on track with timing without necessarily freaking out if one question took more than a minute. If a question took longer I feel comfortable I can make up the lost time in other questions. Luckily the exam doesn't test you on how fast you can answer each individual question but how accurately you can get through the whole section. Hopefully that made some sense? Best of luck!!!
Hey! What helped me to go faster was doing timed section tests. At first, for LR, I'd finish 19 questions within the allotted time and guess on the final 6 questions. After 2 weeks, I was able to answer all the questions and still maintain or increase my accuracy. Another thing that has helped me is being able to somewhat anticipate what the correct answer choice should look like. It helped me particularly with Flaw, Explain, and MP questions. I also significantly increased my reading speed, reading the stimulus in 20 seconds (on average), and leaving more time to evaluate the answer choices. I hope this is helpful! Good luck!
The 2minute ripcord was helpful enough for me. I don’t think too much about how long questions take. There’s easy ones that still require over a minute to read through, and harder ones that can be finished faster than those.
The problem I had was sinking too much time into one question which sapped away too much time for other questions, and could cause my thinking to spiral out of control.
The safe rule I adopted was that 2m ripcord. I will leave certain questions till the end always (parallel), then I can use any time left over to diagram and think comfortably without that time crunch.
For me it has always been to literally just practice the questions under "testing conditions." So for timing, when you're doing drills in 7Sage, use the time limits that the program provides. There is no one trick to being efficient in terms of timing, repetition is your best bet.