2025 Undergrad
WE in Corporate Finance
Registered for June LSAT
Is there a way to customize RC Drills to filter for passages where I answered multiple questions wrong? I know there is an "Incorrect Ever" filter, but I think this would include passages where I only got one answer wrong. I'd like to be able to revisit passages that I had a particularly difficult time with when I first started studying in order to see how my RC has improved.
theres no magic number of hours to hit it. this is like saying how many hours of lifting does it take to bench 225. depends entirely on where your starting point is and the quality of your training. focus on quality not quantity
@neetigpatel Premise: This process was not done in the best possible way. Conclusion: We should abandon the process altogether. E uses kind of dramatic vocabulary but the flaw is the same, that just because theres an issue doesn't mean the whole thing is ruined and should be scrapped. He provides evidence that the project is imperfect, but then out of nowhere concludes therefore the whole thing should be scrapped without giving any evidence that says imperfect projects should never be undertaken.
Every other answer choice pretty much makes the same mistake; it makes claims that the argument itself never actually made. For example, the argument never concludes that police respond more to buildings than cars, or that we shouldn't restrict car alarms.
Why C is correct: Remember, the conclusion here is the ONLY acceptable thing is to fine the owners. Without the statement about them being effective, we could say, "Can't you just get rid of the alarms entirely?" By saying that the alarms do have a useful purpose in reducing break ins, we get rid of this alternative solution, which is what C says.
5-6 hours a day is intense, in my opinion that length has serious diminishing returns and is a "more is less" situation. 1-2 hours a day of higher quality could make you less burnt out while also letting you learn more
i also get distracted easily, and when i took mine on a saturday the center was actually completely full and I had to wait about 20 minutes for someone to finish testing. However, I had no problems with distractions fortunately as the desks are very private and I brought foam ear plugs. One advantage of doing a saturday is you have a slightly less long wait to get your score back
Focus on deep diving into each question you dont fully understand. Don't worry about number of hours or number of questions drilled just dedicate yourself to quality. For me this means untimed drills ~5 questions with harder difficulty where I fully map out the argument, predict correct answer before reading ACs, and then methodically going over each AC. I also set it to show answer after each question, and if theres even 1% of me that still doesnt get something I will watch the video until its 100% clear.
For me the main value is just the process of writing it down which forces me to fully understand the question and ACs, I never review it after the fact.
pretty sure they only calculate medians with ugrad GPA, so the post grad gpa is more akin to having good softs
i think its every undergrad course you have taken prior to receiving your degree. But yes you can definitely still get accepted with a gpa below their 25%, you just have to make up for that with other factors like a high LSAT. The fact that it is a 25th percentile explicitly means that there ARE students below that mark, and they got accepted of course.
I think if you hit finish and submit then you can’t blind review, but you should be able to show your score without doing this, I once clicked thru after too fast and ended up submitting and had this same thing.
Definitely doable, but 1 PT isn’t a ton of insight, PT scores can swing multiple points just from week to week especially when you are early and still learning the test so I think after your first 3 PTs or so it will be easier to predict likelihood of outcomes
what would you say led to your real test being below your PT average, was it just a harder test than the PTs, test day nerves, or something else?
I recently made the jump from low 170s to high 170s, there were basically two things that were separating me:
Making small silly mistakes (answering strengthening as weakening, misreading point as issue agree as disagree, etc.). The way I overcame this is by forcing myself to really lock in and to carefully read each word of the question, then repeat the question type in my mind as I moved on to the stimulus or AC. This helped me avoid easy mistakes that I would make later in the test as my brain started to fatigue.
Missing high difficulty late section problems. The first step to getting more of those hard late section questions correct is to set yourself up for success by keeping a steady pace early to middle and making sure you have ample time at the end of the section to digest and process the wordier/more difficult questions. But the main strategy I used to get better at these is to do untimed drills of 5-8 Highest Difficulty questions, set to show answer after each question, and then just completely breakdown the argument structure, spot any gaps, and methodically work your way down the answer choices and completely understand why each incorrect option is incorrect and why the correct is correct, if there's any uncertainty at all, read the analysis or watch the video, but you need to force yourself to completely and thoroughly understand each.
Additionally, I've found that doing a drill of 3-5 questions a few minutes before the test gets my brain warmed up (I noticed on my first few PTs that I was messing up at the beginning of my first LR sections and then I would get better as the test went on). Finally, I have a ritual of getting a good lift or run in the morning of my PTs, I find it helps get my blood flowing, wakes me up, and puts me in a locked in state.
Im sort of in the same boat, but i think i'll probably take it again in August if I need to, is there a reason why you couldnt do august instead of september (or both if necessary)?
I like to do untimed drills set to show answer after each question, I do around 5 or 6 5 star difficulty questions and just methodically go through each answer choice. If im stumped, i watch the explanation video. Just be sure by the end you completely 100% understand the stim , the structure, and why wrongs are wrong and why the right is right. Keep doing this and over time you will get faster as your intuition and pattern recognition get better.
I have a few tips, 1. as you practice more and more speed will become easier because you will recognize patterns. Three months feels like a lot, but some people study for much longer than that. 2. Make sure you are 100% understanding every question's argument structure and why correct answer choices are correct and why incorrect answers are incorrect, especially on questions you got wrong or took a long time on. This will greatly improve intuition over time and therefore make you faster. 3. On timed sections, work on a timing/rhythm strategy. For example, for me I try to do the first 10 questions in less than 12 minutes, i try to be done 15 in around 21 minutes, and then I have more time for harder questions at the end. Also, when you get a super easy question that you are very confident in, hit the right answer and move on quick, maybe do a quick glance at the other choices just to make sure you didnt completely miss anything, but dont waste time on an answer you already got correct just to take urself from 99% confidence to 100%
general rule of thumb for me when I'm reviewing flaw ACs is to do a 2 step check for each answer, 1. Does the argument actually do this thing, and 2. if yes is that actually a flaw (ie does it make the argument weaker or illogical)
Usually, the first ten or so questions are easier than the rest of the section, so getting multiple wrong there to me could be indicative of shaky fundamentals, unless you are just rushing right out of the gate and not reading stim or ACs carefully enough
the strategies will differ a bit depending on the question type but in general i would say: 1. Focus on having a very clear understanding of the argument structure, know exactly what the conclusion is and the premises, and then look for gaps between the two. Often times tempting answer choices can be eliminated by asking yourself exactly what does the argument conclude (and why) and does this answer choice align with that. 2. Deep blind review or what I like to do is do small sets (usually 5 ish questions) of 4 or 5 star difficulty, do them untimed and show answer after each question, and just do a complete deep dive on each - completely understand the structure and systematically eliminate every wrong answer and be able to explain exactly why the correct answer is correct. If you really can't get one then watch an explanation video but be sure at the end that you totally understand each question, then as you get better start doing similar but under timed conditions.
I am in almost exactly the same situation, my plan is to alternate between taking older PTs (PT16-20) that I haven’t done yet, and then redoing the first few PTs I ever took. My outlook in general is to focus more on quality over quantity with rlly deep review any time I miss a question. I have also heard people say on Law Hub there are question sets that aren’t on 7Sage, so maybe you could use those as well if you have no fresh sections here.