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Tbh, for me my BR was almost always poor lol but I was able to vastly improve. My Br was bad because I would cheat a bit, meaning I would always check my score and my sections before I BR so I know what I am looking for and sometimes even peep at the answer sheet. But I still went from a 152 in May to a 160 in July, and now I am scoring in the high 160s, so I think the most important thing is to just do as many PTs as you can and try to do BR as best as you can and speed will come with time. Conditional logic, LG board game set ups and inferences are now a literally breeze for me but at the beginning they were quite difficult. I think I only achieved this through practice and I think you can too.
Edit: keep in mind that I also studied full time for two months and did 3 PTs a week with looking at lessons in my off time. I also was off and on studying for the past year.
I think the best way to just overall generally improve is to take as many individual Practice Tests as you can and do individual section improvement on the side. This is because I truly believe that if you take as many as you can and you efficiently Blind Review them, over time every section of your LSAT score should improve. I think you may run into an issue if you just focus solely or most of your attention on improving one section if you are not scoring well in all sections. This is because sadly, not all LSAT tests are equal in the distribution of difficulty of sections. So what I mean by this is that if a specific LSAT test has a really difficult logic games, it may compensate for the increased difficulty by making another section easier such as Reading Comprehension. So lets say you focus most of your time on LG and you get it down to roughly -1 or -2 on average on LG sections but when you write the September LSAT it is just your luck that they put in a really hard LSAT section so you go -4 to -5 instead of your average. Now the issue for you is that you may not be able to make up those lost marks because you haven't worked on your RC as much and you struggle much more so you don't get that advantage of having an easy RC because you haven't focused as much time on the RC as you should be. So, if you focus most of your time on LG you could really screw yourself over if you get unlucky on the LSAT.
So instead, what I would advise is that you take around 2 PTs a week after you have done the core curriculum from 7sage and on some other days you drill individual sections for areas that you think you need improvement upon or that you may be lagging behind. So for LG maybe you fool proof one of your sections (as described by JY). This way you can work on your worst sections and also ensure that you are improving some of your other sections over time as well. This is just my opinion and not gospel so take it with a grain of salt.
Good Luck in September:)
Hey, I think the biggest issue for LR is that it is a mixed bag of the type of questions. Meaning that their are SO many different types of question types that it is hard to fully practice the techniques you need to learn in order to master this questions. For instance, you may have a really good grasp of Necessary Assumption Questions but really struggle with Weaken type questions. if you struggle with Weaken type questions then you are most likely going to do poorly on the LR sections because their are typically a lot of Weaken type questions within these sections even if you are super good with other types of questions. So, how do you know which question types you are struggling with? 7sage has a pretty cool analytical tool to help you with this. What you would need to do is to use some preptests and do the LR sections timed and then do a blind review all using the 7sage grader (which is under the resources section of the site). I would recommend you do a number of LR sections before you look at the analytics of this test. So what 7sage does is that it keeps track of which type of question you get wrong consistently throughout all these LR sections so you can see what question types you need to improve upon, and then you review the lessons under the 7sage main course and specifically practice on the type of LR questions that you consistently get wrong. This way it helps you with the types of questions that you are struggling on in the LR section! I hope this helps:)
From what I understand is that the PTs you should do from 1-35 is subjective from what I have seen from my personal experience and from what others in the community have said. If you are struggling in LGs the earlier ones are much more harder than the current LG form and their are also generally more questions. However, if you struggle in RC you may want to not do the earlier PTs because their reading comprehension is easier than the current version of the LSAT RC sections. LR is different in two significant ways, in that their won't be as much two question stimulus as their was in the past LSATs and that the difficulty in LR is a lot more hidden in modern LSATS as compared to previous ones. So I would say that you should gauge which ones you want to do by the strength of your sections of the LSAT.
Hey, I don't know when they will release the June LSAT but you should also keep in mind that their is a potential that the LSAC doesn't release the June LSAT at all. This is because I believe that LSAC won't always release previous administered tests for one important reason. This reason being that they have to hold onto recent LSATs in the case of an emergency. So, lets say that on the day of the test day a natural disaster happens where your test is like a hurricane or something like that. Well now they have to reschedule the test day, which is likely a week later. So now the people taking a test a week later will have an advantage because people who took the test earlier could relay important information to them that could give them an unfair advantage. What they will do to try and diminish this advantage is that they will have a backup test beforehand from a previously administered LSAT date for these students who are taking the delayed June test. For instance, if you look at the Preptests from 2018 they released the June 2018 and September 2018 test but not the July 2018 test. This is because they are probably holding onto this LSAT in case of emergencies that will inevitably happen across the hundreds of test centers across the world. So their is a chance that they just hold onto the June 2019 test in storage and never release it.
What i would suggest you do is that instead of hoping that they will release the June 2019 test in time, is that you just use the most recent one available. A good thing about the LSAT is that they never really radically change from one test to the next. Probly a better option than waiting on LSAC to decide to release or not to release the June 2019 test.
I wish you the best of luck!:)
Yes, I started full time prep in May and was at a bit below your score and I got to a 160, So it is definitely possible it just takes a lot of time and effort. I am currently scoring in the mid 160s with the occassional high 160.