@madelineleibin913 said:

Taking breaks from studying. I went hard for a long time without any real breaks. Once I started taking them my scores became more stable. I also took a really long break between two actual tests and my score jumped from 163 to 171. I was burnt out!

Woah I recognize your username from the podcast I listened to a few days ago! Haha Congrats on your score!

I guess the repercussion I was afraid of was the “cancel” they’d put on the record. Wish they didn’t add that :(

@jasminesade220 said:

Im pretty sure the July test you can cancel the score if you don't like it with no repercussion, which is why it filled up crazy fast. I cancelled my June score because I knew I didn't do as well as I wanted and registered for the July one. As far as the July test it's a win win situation. Its basically like a free test drive, if you don't like your score, cancel it.

Thank you both! I think I will retake then. I was just really worried cause I saw online that over one cancel looks really bad. I wish I had started studying again after the June lsat :(

@jasminesade220 said:

I don't think another cancel would look bad. Law schools are only concerned with your highest LSAT score and plus there could be a reason you canceled the July exam - since it's the introduction of the digital format. Don't worry too much about that and just go with your gut

@corcoranhannah817 said:

I don't think another cancel would look bad esp since July will be introducing the digital. Plus if you do choose to cancel you have the option of a free retake which you can study for and potentially improve your score a few months down the line. If you're up for it, I'd say take the July!

@sako752 said:

I PT in the high 160s to low 170s, with a consistent BR score of 177+ and I still watch/read explanations for every question. Even on the easy ones, I learn ways to solve them faster or see new ways that I could have used to eliminated answer choices. There are times when I don't see certain inferences but will find out about them through the explanations. This has allowed me to burn through the easier questions faster when PTing, which ultimately saves you more time for the harder questions.

This is a very time consuming process though. I also don't watch the explanations until I'm completely certain that the answer I chose is right. When I do get questions wrong, it's usually because I missed some sort of inference or misunderstood an answer choice.

It's important to keep in mind quality vs quantity. If you aren't BRing in the high 170s then there is room for improvement. Focus more on increasing your BR score instead of looking at it as trying to get through lots of PTs.

As far as getting an answer you had correct on PT wrong on BR, this usually means that you didn't completely have the question nailed down and there's an opportunity for you to learn from it. There shouldn't really be any reason to be scared, since at the end of the day your BR score is just part of your prep and a tool to see where you are at.

Do you do it for every single question in each section you take, including how he talks about the passage. What is the average amount of time it will take you? You're right, quality is important than quantity. I guess my fear is that I'm not taking nearly as enough practice tests as I should be.

@jefffreelhoke89148 said:

I think you are taking a good approach but I would eventually start watching videos about the questions you get wrong or were not sure about ONLY. I think the main reason (at least in my case) is due to time. If I had infinite time then I would watch every video 10x. I think I would rather spend extreme amounts of time learning everything I possibly can about the really hard questions than spending loads of time watching videos about questions I found to be easy. If you get the hard stuff correct then the easy stuff will follow... or so I think.

Right. If only there was infinite time!!

@sako752 said:

Depends how confident I feel about the questions. Sometimes I even watch the videos for questions I got correct because I wasn't completely sure. If I get a question wrong and catch it during BR and realized my mistake then I usually don't watch the video. When I do, I would just skip around on the video and listen to his explanation for a certain AC and see if that is the same as my reasoning.

that seems more efficient! I guess I'm always a little scared that I'm getting the questions right for the wrong reason. I also doubt myself a little too much.

@839204 said:

I generally watch the videos for questions I circled. Occasionally a couple where I didn't circle as well

how do you know when to watch the ones for ones you didn't circle?

Wow def realized my slight misreading of telepathy tripped me up. I assumed knowing what one is thinking could only be telepathy.

Thank you. I hope I can make an improvement in logic games in two weeks and not go down in other sections.

@buytrafficexpress251 said:

You should focus intensely on logic games, but do not neglect the other sections. Maybe do a full PT per week but supplement that with some LG single sections throughout the week. Good luck!

Hey, I'm interested! :)

Okay I have a lot of trouble understanding how A is wrong:

P: psychological studies show that subjects given statements to form new beliefs preservered in their beliefs even after being told the original statements were false

C: humans will hold on to these believes even in the absence of credible evidence.

Okay so my logic of selecting A, is that since the statements were actually correct —-> here is an alternative reason why they persevered in their studies. Implying that it doesn’t necessarily have to be because of their blind loyalty in the basis of no evidence. Like perhaps their continued belief is because they are actually correct.

B) who cares about keeping track of the original basis of their beliefs

C) who cares if original statements are misleading. More interested in why they hold on to beliefs after being told its false

D) looking back at D I can now how D is correct, but I initially didn’t read “confirmation” as evidence but rather as, just any old person just saying “yeah that’s right” , which I didn’t read as strong enough to be evidence per say.

E) doesn’t matter if they were skeptical, ultimately they required new beliefs.

I still have so much trouble wrapped my head around how A is wrong.