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Quick question, I've noticed that I am more prone to missing questions on the first RC passage than I should when I do PTs. I think, I could be wrong because things blur a bit when you study for a stupid long time for the LSAT, that JY mentioned in passing in an explanation that students miss more on the first passage....
So my question: is this a thing that people can be more prone to missing more questions on the first passage? Is it like something to do with warming up as you go through the passages? Or am I an outlier hahaha
Anyone deal with this/ have ideas on how to prevent this?
Edit: the more I think about it, I've noticed I make more dumb mistakes in the first couple of questions in LR and LG than I should. Its not as common for me with those sections but maybe theres a pattern....hmmm
I've played guitar almost my entire life and I see some of the similarities to learning guitar as to learning the LSAT. I see similarities in the learning of guitar that apply to blind review...
In guitar, a common mistake for people who stick with it for a while is to jump to fast. Its more fun, exciting, and gives you skills to show off to people (girls) to learn a dazzling solo or the latest song everyone knows. Often times, people will dig into the most common scales for soloing but they don't learn all of the boring details of those scales, like the different placements (you can play the same scale up and down the neck in many different places) and they don't learn the scales in all of the keys even the most obscure ones. This in the long run puts you at a disadvantage because you miss out on the nuances like approaching scales string by string, attacking solos diagonally, up and down, half in one position half in another, etc, and the different nuances that only sound good in different keys, tones, different guitars, etc You basically develop holes in your playing that sometimes aren't noticeable but at times your all messed up because you've never encountered that type of a situation to play in. Its like if you always play in the same position in the key of Em and you need to play in F#m in one of the 10-14 different positions, playing in that same position might not work. You just kind of sit there like, what am I doing. It's hard to describe in writing but its a feeling of being stuck and you don't know what notes / chords will sound good in any given moment and anything you try will sound bad.
Although, they aren't perfectly analogous, my point is that with the LSAT I've found that its not about how much you get through really, its about building up the fundamentals and not creating holes that can or cannot hurt you in the long run. In the long run are spending a year (plus/ minus) and making sacrifices for a short test that we don't know what is going to be on it. We want to be ready for whatever the LSAT throws at us that day. So we don't want holes. We don't want to be stuck at something come test day we want to be ready for every challenge even challenges that won't come up on the test (thats due to the unpredictability of the test).
To me, blind review does this. I actually don't think we should only focus on just the hard questions or the easy questions. We also shouldn't think about doing it for 1 hour or 5 days, just whatever it takes to understand every detail from every question easy or hard. IMO, its more important to go through fewer and slower than more and with less time.
My process though takes a really long time. I BR the proper way (like circling), but I also go over every single question, whether I thought it was easy or not) and write out on the sheet why each answer is correct or not for LR. For, LG I full proof just about every game (that's because I'm still awful at games), and RC, I BR, then review every question, then I watch JY go over the video for the passage, then I check the answers again (seeing if I've changed again), then I watch the video explanations and reveal the answers. Some of the harder RC passages, I've gone back and reviewed them again weeks later just to refresh myself. Some of them I mentally can't though because spending a couple hours on one passage makes me hate the passage forever. Like I despise some topics when I see references to them in real life.
The most helpful thing for BR for me has been taking the hard questions, cookie cutter questions, or questions I found interesting (yes I admit some of them are interesting), giving my Mom a bottle of wine and then I teach her the RC passage or the LR question. I aim to synthesize JY's explanation, Account Playables if available, and my own thoughts when I explain each aspect of it. Needless to say, she can't wait for me to take the LSAT and go to law school. But this teaching process has been what led me to dramatically break my initial plateau for LR and RC (though I still have tonnnns more work to do).
So for me, after that long winded story, BR takes 3-4 days without the teaching all RC's and the harder LRs. If thats included, I will have never stopped blind reviewing the test because I constantly go back to the ones I've saved on my comp and either re teach them or go over them myself.
Take that all with a grain of salt, I keep pushing the LSAT back and have been studying for over a year (not that long with 7 sage) and will be taking it in June. I've taken a break and gone back to certain parts of the CC I wanted to brush up on (SA, Games, and RC), but I plan on getting back into the swing of PT in December.