@dorie9980 I studied for 80 hours over the course of 6 weeks. My advice would be to not shy away from the hard work and really get into the weeds with every single question. Don't let anything slide!

Just to add my perspective, I studied for 80 hours total and just scored a 177!

@nycxchi yeah I don't think chatgpt/claude/gemini are very good, they have specific "reasoning" models that they used if I remember correctly

@nycxchi AI absolutely can answer LSAT questions. Just this last year they tested several LLM and 5/6 got above a 175 on a PT with one scoring a perfect 180.

@besrawi pretty much exactly that lol. All of the above.

its definitely doable. I take my official this Friday, but I scored a diagnostic of 160 as well 6 weeks ago. in the last three weeks I've averaged around a 176 and my last to Pt's were 179 and 180 respectively. So you can definitely get to where you want to be in 2 months as long as you put in the work.

@victorsplitter27 You got this!

@ZG I mainly drilled LR with question types I'm bad at and then full RC sections. Now I just do full sections or entire PTs instead of drilling since I've ironed out all my issues

@SelinI I mainly targeted my problem areas- for me it was assumption questions and conditional logic. I did three to four hours a day for about a month and in the last two weeks about 1-2 hours a day 3x a week. DM if you have more questions

@Ki191320 DM me

@EmmaAshley about 6 weeks from 160 diagnostic

If it works for you it might be worth doing, the problems with this strategy is you might eat up a lot of your time working on harder questions that you still are likely to get wrong, whereas if you did the easy ones first you can get a lot of free points. If you spend 10 minutes on 4 hard questions and thereby don't have enough time to adequately solve 10 other easy questions, it's not worth it. Also, by jumping into harder questions right away you forego a "warmup" to get into logic thinking mode. It might be worth doing questions 1-5 then 16-25 then the middle questions. But do whatever you find to be best ofc.

my best advice would be not to forget to answer questions

Might be worth spending a few hours with a tutor to see if that can help. I wouldn't ever give up on yourself!

@Dibble I mainly focus on tracking shifts in voices from paragraph to paragraph, highlighting and paying close attention to conclusions and what I think will be important information brought up in questions. I make sure I understand what each sentence is or paragraph is saying before I move on. I think its more important to understand the passage deeply so that you can answer the questions easier rather than speeding through it and getting bogged up in details later.

@AdamLaw Im currently a full time student with a part time job at Uni, so I've been studying from 10pm - 2 am every night, and more on weekends. I mostly spend my time absolutely hammering question types that I'm weak on (for me its anything with conditional logic and specifically sufficient or necessary assumptions). I spend 2/3 of my time doing questions and 1/3 in review. The most important thing for me was to make sure I understand every single question 100%. At this level I think you can't really let any mistakes or misunderstandings slide, gotta master every single question.

@dh2303 of course you are correct, except it is a valid argument in the abstract, merely not a particularly descriptive one. The fact that it includes the qualifier of might does indeed make it logically valid. Or more precisely, not logically invalid.

Awesome!! keep it up!

@Marcus91 The timing thing is a good tip. Thank you!

@julielamberth that makes a lot of sense. I'm ofc going to try to make it work but I might have to retake it to be confident in my score.