Hey all, currently my study and buddy and I Blind Review practice tests every Sunday afternoons, like 3:30 PM-ish PST, over Zoom. If you are planning on taking the April, June, August, or December test and also want to review with us, please let me know! We are planning to start on later practice tests (65+) in about a week.
I use google sheets and my rows are test.sect.# / Blind review confidence % / Question type / Reason missed / Solution
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This is only your second PT you've ever taken? Just keep going tbh because it sounds like you are doing everything right. Try not to let your first practice tests hold you back, this test is psy-op by LSAC as much as it is about logic and reasoning lol. If you want my opinion, push back your application a year or more. You will feel way less stressed and like you have time to study (I have been studying seriously since like October 2023 and on and off again since like 2022). Plus it gives you time to find a job and gain some real-world experience which may help your application altogether.
Besides that, keep a wrong answer journal, find where your weaknesses are and study those. I am awful at SA and NA for LR and pretty bad at RC still, so I study those the most. I am averaging 152ish for my weekly PTs but the concepts are getting easier each week! And my first PT's were in the low 140's as well, we all start somewhere :)
You got this!!
Hey all, currently my study and buddy and I Blind Review practice tests every Sunday afternoons, like 3:30 PM-ish PST, over Zoom. If you are planning on taking the April, June, August, or December test and also want to review with us, please let me know!
This sounds great, would be interested.
A few things have helped me. One, do step drills with not time limit (5 questions at 1 star, then 5 at two, and so on while only moving up when you are at -1 for the set). Always, always, always keep the conclusion at forefront because that it what you are trying to destroy (I miss this step under timed conditions more often than I would like to admit lol). I always go into negation first, but you can also do the MBT test first for the answer choices because the correct answer MBT for the conclusion to follow and then negating it will destroy the conclusion. Frame your negations like this: "It is not true that...". This helped me on the ones where there wasn't an obvious conditional logic indicator to negate. Goodluck and if you are looking for a study buddy in Pacific time zone hit me up!