Hey y'all. I am planning on taking the August LSAT, so am in the final stretch of my preparation. I am working through the 150s practice tests, and have thus far taken PT 150, PT 151 and PT 156. I got a 165 on PT 150, a 162 on PT 151, and a 170 on PT 156. These were all taken within the last two weeks roughly four days apart. I read that 150-155 are the most accurate to the real exam, and I noticed on PT 156 the second RC section was identical to a section in the July 2020 exam. (I saw on reddit the old RCs were harder so I did the 2020 tests lol). Will that be the case for PT157-159?
Basically my question is how do I gauge readiness and last minute prep at this point? My goal is basically 170. I would be very happy with higher but I primarily don't want to get lower than that. I posted around a month ago when I was stuck at 165 and got advice on making an error log which I have found very helpful. Right now I am essentially redoing all the PTs plus the newest tests I have not done before. In addition, I am doing drill sets of just the Level 4 and Level 5 questions. My concern at this point is not ability but consistency. I find myself getting stressed in the tests as I get closer and essentially leaving questions I know the answers to on the table. I think I performed on PT 156 today because I got 170s on PT 127 and PT 147 over the last few days so I knew it was doable. Basically, what are suggestions for this last month to prioritize the questions that will be most similar to the real thing?
This was way longer than I intended but I mostly wanted to articulate my thoughts, thanks for reading. :)
@businessgoose Hey! I don't use the 7sage Wrong answer Journal platform, what I do is I have a Google doc where I write out each wrong answer per section and indicate which question it was, what the passage, stem, stimulus of the question was, and its out of five difficulty level. Then I write a sentence or two explaining in my own words why I got the question wrong and what the thought process behind the incorrect answer was. Then I do drill sets of 5 questions for each missed question of the same question and stimulus tags, usually at the difficulty level I got wrong, or just at level 4 and level 5. This takes quite a while bcs it is usually 10-14 errors per test and that's five questions for each. I spend the day after a practice test doing those drill sets. Hope this is helpful!