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I’m currently scheduled to take the August exam in a couple weeks. I’ve been averaging 163 on my practice exams, but I would love a 168+ to make myself more competitive for T14 schools. I am planning to target T30 schools more generally, with some more “safety” schools outside that range as well. If it’s helpful at all, my LSAC GPA is apparently a 4.1. Currently I work a full-time job in the legal field and only have a maximum of 2 hours a day to study.
Since I’ve been missing a handful of LR questions each section, I’ve been focusing on untimed drills of my weak LR question types to up my pattern recognition and understanding. My thought process here (for focusing on LR) is because LR has more scored sections. However, with my limited time, I don’t know if I’m spending too much time deep diving into my individual wrong questions. How should I balance my time with these drills and reviewing them?
I’m also stressed about RC questions, as I tend to run out of time. My tendency is that I spend over the target time on the passage (1min+ over) and then I am either under or over for the questions, depending on difficulty. I think I have a problem with being concise in my low res summaries which hurts my recall in the questions. I also have been using the highlight feature, but maybe I need to abandon it if that’s what’s slowing me down?
Essentially, between LR and RC, what do you think I should focus on in my time before the exam? Do you have any other tips?