Has anyone else had a big gap between their timed score and Blind Review for a long time? I have been averaging around 157 timed and 169 sometimes up to 174 BR for the past few months on all my pts. I try not to take too long doing blind review either.
What does a gap like this usually mean, and what helped you close it??
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I've had the same issue, I've scored 157 on the official but in practice if I go untimed or I blind review I only miss 1-3 questions in a section. What I have been doing to close the gap is drilling individual sections, at first untimed, and then slowly cutting down the time. at first I did an untimed section and it took me an hour and I missed only 3 questions. Afterwards, I went down to 50 min and I worked there until I could match the performance I had at 1 hour. I managed to go -2 at 50 min and so I have lowered the time frame to 45 min where I won't move down on time until I can match that previous performance. Like today I did a section at 45 min on LR where I went -4 and -2 on blind review and so until I can hit that blind review score I won't move down on time. After I get the accuracy and the timing right on individual sections I'm going to string them together. At first I'll do 2 sections, then 3, and then 4 sections. I am progressively overloading on the LSAT questions just like I would at weight the gym. Also, whenever I run into questions that are significant time sinks relative to the section and the time I gave myself, I will drill those question types.
@Phillycheese03 I’m stealing your technique hahaha. Thank you for sharing! The progressive overload idea actually makes so much sense. It's just so discouraging to take full pt after pt, and the only thing going up is my blind review score. I was telling myself it's less about timing, and more likely because I already know one answer choice is now wrong.
It means your missed points have more to do with execution and time pressure and less to do with misunderstanding the question/stimulus and errors in logic or reading comp. Its not better or worse, just means that you have to identify and work on why the test taking environment separates you from a point you get without the pressure. But I feel like these errors can be corrected quicker than foundational problems, but I am in the same boat right now.
@MickeyHaller Thank you! I actually went back and redid the Core Curriculum because I thought I was missing something, but I’m still having the same gap. What you said makes a lot of sense. Hopefully, we both can make huge jump soon