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@ANP Sure! I sometimes forget about how to approach RC. Panic and irritation set in with the hard passages. It was funny. Years ago, I got a 169 several months ago on the same PT I scored a 146. With LR, I get slow as molasses to start, fatigue sets in, and then I commit all sorts of errors throughout. As for when I study, it's whenever I have time. I work two jobs. So the short answer is that I don't have a ritual. I try to get through as much material until I'm comfortable with it. Then test day comes. And the thing goes haywire very early on.
@Lillia555 That's part of it. It's definitely a problem with reading comp. Definitely.
Something worth considering... But this is one of the strangest things I've ever experienced in academia or the professional world. I've shown the ability on several occasions for weeks on end. Then, I just don't have it and it doesn't come back. It's a recurring cycle that's happened to me so many times I can't even count them. I'd trade so much just to get consistent at this. To be frank, it's not even about picking a school with a lower LSAT median anymore. That doesn't make that much of a difference to me. It's more about showing that I can do it consistently.
I've got the 150% accommodation. Frankly, the problem of nosediving timed work applies to any time restriction I try. Very weird stuff.
Thanks much, ANP. I've tried that strategy, too: Four days on, two days off, in the winter. I've found that my LR skills dull fairly rapidly when I take the on-again, off-again approach.
I've done the eight-hour sections... But anything under that that I've tried causes a collapse in performance within about a month of tightening the restrictions. Funny. I got a 175 on PT 156 timed before my April test. That was after a few days off. Then, on PT 151, I got a 156. The performance falls progressively and dramatically downward after I emerge with near-flawless accuracy from untimed.
I took a month break recently. I took a 10-day break after that. After each break, my untimed accuracy starts very high. As soon as I move to timed sections, my performance gets volatile--sometimes good, sometimes bad--then it plummets as I keep trying. This happens within the course of a month. It's happened twice this summer now.
I've been studying for the LSAT for 15 months. My average score hasn't improved in 13 months. I'm in the low to mid 160s. I've tried the AI coach. I wouldn't recommend it. I've tried tutors. They're helpful, yet expensive. And my plateau was still hard as a rock before my April test, which was in the mid 160s. For that, I'm grateful.
For a while, my logical reasoning was awesome. I'd finish timed sections perfect this winter and spring on multiple occasions. Now, I'm lucky if I'm not guessing on around half of the questions. My RC performance has been volatile. On a recent practice test, I went 26/27 on a section. But my average shows that I miss around 10 questions per section on average. On a one-star passage today, I just went four of seven. It was a trainwreck. On some timed recent RC sections, I went 8/27 and 9/27. I'd gladly admit this isn't for me. But I keep hearing that all I need to do is keep working at it and I'll eventually get into the 170s.
My question is: How? I study regularly for hours every day. I do practice tests regularly. I diligently review the answers that I get wrong. I even get them right in subsequent drills for all the right reasons. And yet my performance has nosedived. On a recent test, I scored a 146. And I've spent about 15 grand doing this. This just feels hopeless.
@ANP I haven't... Do you have any?