This is very helpful! Thank you
I know it's annoying, and no one wants to hear it....but practice.
Force yourself to start doing longer drills, take a minute break and repeat. It's like a sport--nothing is gonna be better for your stamina than conditioning.
Will this be recorded? Would love to watch afterward.
#help Does this question require that we don't know or assume that supply/demand relationships happen?
Every once in a while, there's a question that I just love the reasoning for. This is one of them.
Got it wrong on my PT and on my Blind Review, but the explanation is great.
Basically, the analogy is pointless because we don't have this idea of purpose. If a car's purpose, i.e., driving, can only be ascertained via engineering. And we compare a car to a dog, and say, therefore a dog's "purpose" can only be ascertained via physiology. Sure. But wth is a dog's purpose.
If there is no analogue for purpose in organisms, the analogy is moot. We're not using physiology to ascertain anything that we can name.
I would argue that we could take AC C one step further and say, yes C is necessary, but we must ALSO say that the analogue to purpose is inherently expressable via physiology. But both are still necessary.
I also had (have) issues with timing. Still working on my RC timing (with accuracy) but I'm finally at a place where I finish my RC sections and have time actually left over on LR.
Biggest game changers for me:
Translation drills. Sit down with a fresh LR section, read the stim, then cover it up and then write a translation in your own words. Don't answer or even look at the questions. Just do it for every question in the section, see how long the section takes you and how accurate you are. I did this, starting with it taking me about an hour and a half and ending with it taking ~35 mins after doing it about 5 times. Seriously, this is probably the thing that helped my score the most (I started at a 153 diagnostic and now I'm at 167, also hoping to hit 170 by october...)
Give yourself benchmarks, but be flexible. Start doing drills in LR that are 1 or 2 star questions, and give yourself 10 minutes for 10 questions. Force yourself to finish them even if it feels rushed. You'll probably do better than you think and it boosts your confidence. On real sections, try to use that as a benchmark, like "By the 10 min mark i should be done w 10 questions" but don't beat yourself up if you're not.
This goes for RC too. I started using a "number of questions plus 1" system for RC timing, so if a passage has 6 questions, I get 7 minutes to finish it. If I'm not done, I move on. That way, I end up with extra time and I can come back to anything I didn't finish, but I'm not totally flopping my last passage because I have like 3 minutes to read and answer the questions.
Figure out how often you're re-reading things, and why. Might just be more difficult questions, but if you learn your own patterns, it will help a lot.
Honestly, for me, so much of it was fatigue. I started getting tired and slowing down dramatically. Practicing a lot has helped with that--figuring out when my brain peters out and how I can jumpstart it again. Maybe it's taking 10 seconds for a couple deep breaths or reminding myself these are all just silly puzzles. Or whatever. Find what works for you.
I hope this helps...and good luck!
How is this a 1-star question? A and C both seem perfectly viable. If anything C requires more assumptions because you have to assume that whatever nutrients that are utilized from dead organisms are necessary for plankton survival.
I'm getting all kinds of mixed information when I look this up, so I apologize if this is common knowledge I'm just missing somewhere. But when you take the test in-person, does section 2 start immediately after section 1? And the same for 3 and 4?
Basically, do you get 60 seconds to reset or do you just roll immediately through?
This makes a huge difference in how I prepare...
Is there a way to reset the curriculum so that I can go through and answer questions with the lessons again? Right now, I can't go to retake a question without seeing the answer first.
I felt like I did much better with RC before starting to train. My diagnostic in RC was -5 vs. between -8 and -10 now.
My LR is, on the whole, much much better than before I started studying, but my gains in score have been marginal because my RC has dropped off.
In studying for LR, I realized that reading/translation/repetition seemed to help me the most, and I'd love to tackle a similar strategy for RC, but just doing RC passages over and over with Low Res summaries isn't helping me a whole lot. Still missing one or two per passage that have to do with something super specific I glazed over on my readthrough. I feel like I struggle with balancing reading for detail and reading for structure/concepts -- it's often I get one or the other on a first read (all I have time for obviously).
Any tips for making RC improvement more manageable?
Agreed! I almost always skip blind review if I see 100%. Even though I was probably uncertain of at least a few.
@David Busis Amazing!! Thank you :)
I have a drill I'm using that I'd like to be able to redo over and over. Small thing, but it would be great if I didn't have to go back through to the main drill page and find the saved drill (especially bc this particular drill is just one question), but could just repeat the same drill (timing and difficulty and all settings) straight from the recap page.
Thanks! Site looks wonderful btw <3
To be clear, by 2026 applicant, I mean people starting law school in 2026, taking the LSAT this fall :)
Looking for someone who would be willing to study with me once or twice a week -- preferably just sitting on a Zoom/Discord call for accountability, unless we're working w something similar and want to chat.
Ideally:
Studies in the AM (b/w 8-11 EST)
Testing in the high 150's-low 160's, shooting for 170's
2026 applicant
Someone in EST, or even better, Central Virginia (C-Ville area) would be amazing, but I'm also happy to buddy up with someone who isn't local
Okay. This question is annoying. Yes, I see what it's doing. But it totally flips the script in the AC. I'm a bit surprised this is only a 3-star.
Ultimately, what is needed here is that you're open to both sides of who "one" is--employee or manager. If your brain gets stuck (as mine did) on the idea that we're focusing on enhancing the effectiveness of the employee's role, C seems like an immediate elimination.
This test really forces you to keep your thought process nimble even when you start to feel (overly) confident in your ability to reason.