Hello, I am taking the November LSAT, and I am unsure of when to take my remaining prep tests that are 100% fresh. I only have two more that are 100% fresh, and I don't know when a good time would be to take them. Also, all of my drills are now questions from older tests. What should I do?
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Hi there! My advice is always not to take a PT until you have something new to bring to it. That is, you want to use targeted drilling and focus on your weak points with specific goals in mind, and ideally you want to feel more comfortable with those targeted weak points before you PT again. If you think November will be your last take, you might want to take one PT next week, and one the week after (but not too close to your test day!). But you don't need to decide on specific dates. Instead, decide on specific goals you want to work on and get better at before each of your next two PTs. If you think you might test again after November, maybe save one of those PTs for studying for next time, though!
As for drills: older test questions may not look quite like test day questions, but you can still practice a lot of really valuable skills with them! You can do targeted drills where you pick one goal (perhaps reading carefully, looking for trap answers, justifying your answer and wrong answers super clearly, flagging and moving on, etc) and work on that goal. Those are skills that transfer across tests and across a large LSAT time span. It's also okay to repeat questions you drilled quite awhile ago, since you likely don't have a great memory of them. I'd recommend doing that if you need to work on a specific question type or reasoning type and don't have enough fresh questions to do so. Hopefully that helps!