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Hi, just joined 7Sage and had a quick question that I thought I would try to clear up before the LSAT on Saturday! (:/ pretty nervous).
I've been studying on my own for a while and have made pretty good progress in terms of where I am now and where I started. Everything that I've read, whether here, a Kaplan source, or other test prep materials suggest that you find the conclusion first for the LR questions. Now I've digested this and if you hand me a question I can point out the conclusion and premise(s) without any problem usually. What I'm curious about is, for those that are scoring really well on the LR sections (like let's say no more that -3/4 per section) or finish them with a lot of spare time, or both if you're an LR beast, do you actually go into the question, having read the question stem, and just first look for the conclusion and circle, underline, mental note whatever, and THEN read the rest?
What I've been doing, and I've improved but I still cut it really close to time in the LR sections (and I think this is partly because of getting stuck on long time sucking questions or when I have those epic mind civil wars over two remaining answer choices), is I just read the whole stimulus and just make a note of what is background/premise and what is conclusion. I don't actively SEARCH for a conclusion indicating word, read the conclusion and then read the rest. Just read it all the way through once, and maybe sometimes I have to go back and reread a line or two once I've identified the conclusion/premise.
I know it's probably not the wisest thing to try to switch this up before Saturday. But I've been wondering if the hard practicing suggested in the beginning of learning how to tackle LR questions with drills on Conclusion and Premise identification is just for you to understand the difference in the beginning or if actually helps with speed/accuracy if you just kind of chop up the stimulus like that.
Anyways, any thoughts/advice would be great. It would be nice to reduce my missed questions in LR for Saturday, even missing 3-4 less than I am right now could realistically put me in the low 170s which would be lovely. In addition to practicing for the last days of keeping mindful of timing, not getting stuck and, for the most part, going with intuition for those answer choices you bounce back and forth between, anything to help me anchor down these sections a bit more would be amazing.
Cheers to everyone taking the test on Saturday!
In my opinion the LR questions in the earlier tests do look and feel much different than more recent tests (the question stems themselves are wordier, etc), but for me it has actually helped me. If you can get through some of the convoluted language there, the questions in the recent tests seem much easier and straightforward. There are patterns that exist both in the old and the newer exams in regards to LR sections, and though I'm no expert myself, I really think that practicing all of them only enhances your performance. Of course, to really get a sense of how you do on LR I would use the results from a more recent exam as that will probably reflect what you will actually receive when you sit for the LSAT. I feel almost as if the confusion and frankly crappy way the questions are formulated in earlier exams contributes to the difficulty of those questions and in recent exams, they have cleaned up the question stems and redistributed that bit of convoluted language in order to trip you up in the answers. But if you can't figure out what the question is asking you to do or identify, then you will have trouble regardless, so once again, I think seeing some of the earlier exams could help. Hope this helps!