Hi guys! I'm prepping for the November LSAT, and have been consistently testing at -1/sometimes -2 on LR. I ALWAYS catch my error(s) on BR, but I never flag the questions I get wrong as I'm taking them. I'm trying to close the BR gap, but am struggling since I can never tell when I get questions wrong in the first place!
Anyone else worked through this problem?
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This one is so tough to do. By the nature of the test, you have to move through it with enough speed that it's usually suboptimal to be completely certain on most of the questions. Which means the chances that you drop one somewhere unexpectedly are very high. I can't say that I ever solved this problem, since I was still getting 1 or 2 wrong occasionally when I was PTing, but I'd recommend trying these out:
Analyze your recent missed questions for patterns (type of question and type of mistake. Maybe you need to read all five answer choice on easy questions more often).
Write proofs of your missed questions, where you have to spell out exactly how the logic worked
If you're dropping more of the 5 star ones, drill those over and over. If you're unexpectedly dropping easier ones, drill those to see how quickly you can go while maintaining near perfect accuracy.
Just keep practicing. Ultimately, the more you see, the more speed and accuracy you'll have, which feed into each other. Whatever process got you this far might also be what eventually gets you over this obstacle.
At the end of the day, though, you're already in the realm of understanding LR extremely well, and this -1/-2 is more in the realm of human error that's very tough to eliminate. Even for the highest LSAT scorers.