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Tutoring Marketplace · Looking for a tutor to help me get to a 170 for the August LSAT

julielamberth

20 hours ago

I have some availability, please feel free to reach out if you're still looking. I have almost 25 years of experience.

LSAT · Timing tricks for RC?

julielamberth

Yesterday

I advise students to drop the "pop quiz" mentality from high school. Remember RC is open book. Read at a high level to get the big picture and create a mini TOC with paragraph maps. Then use language in the question stem to direct you to where to go to research.

LSAT · Time management and drilling

julielamberth

2 days ago

The hardest questions in LR will be around 15-22 so that tracks. Look for places to save time. Where are you losing time? Are you quickly skipping an A/C once you see it's extreme/outside the scope/too weak? Are you going directly to conclusion, then evidence in argument based questions? Saving 5-10 seconds per question adds up over the section.

LSAT · Slow Decline in PTs and Blind Reviews

julielamberth

2 days ago

What do you see when you review why you missed them? Are they all overthinking? Work on making sure you have a "test" for each answer choice. Remember when you took Algebra in high school and you'd solve equations? If you get x=7, ideally before you move on to the next question you plug 7 back in for x and make sure it works. Then you're 99% sure that's the right answer, and you didn't make a mistake along the way. Same thing for LR - have a way to test answer choices. The negation test for NA, walking back through the stimulus for MBT to show yourself why this answer definitely follows. Also make sure you are at least looking at all 5 choices before you pick so that if you've been too hasty in picking A or B you'll have a warning when you get to D or E and go "wait, this also seems to work. Something must be up."

LSAT · 10-15 point jump possible for June test??

julielamberth

2 days ago

I always look at whether it's feasible. I have had students contact me who want a 20 point jump in 3 weeks and won't move their test date, and I tell them that that's going to be hard to do, ask if they are flexible on their dates, and if they're dead set on that score improvement in that time I honestly will tell them I'm not a good fit to work with them because their expectations are unrealistic. All that to say that I'm pretty honest and direct with people. If you were a student who came to me and said these are my goals, I'd probably tell you that August is a better target. SOME students could do this under the right conditions, but you don't know if you are one of them. If this is a cold diagnostic that helps, because it's more likely that just getting some basic fundamentals you don't currently have will give you a bigger increase. But if you were to come to me with this goal and ask me when to target, I'd say August.

Tutoring Marketplace

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2 days ago

julielamberth

Independent Tutor

High 170s tutor, almost 25 years of experience. $80-100 per hour

I’ve been teaching and tutoring the LSAT for almost 25 years, since 2002. In that time I’ve worked as the national product manager for a major LSAT course, and worked with many hundreds of students, and helped to design courses from the ground up.

My LSAT philosophy is to work smarter, not harder. Narrow the test down to what you need to do to answer the questions, and don’t overcomplicate things needlessly. I focus on a high level approach to RC (get the big picture, then use the questions to research where you need to go into more depth) and having a clear plan of attack for each question type in LR. The goal is always to think about big picture changes to strategy; you’ll never see the same question again, but should take what you did wrong on one question as an indicator for what to do differently in your approach.

Tutoring sessions are usually two hours long; each session is pay as you go so you don't have to purchase a package of hours. I’m on the east coast and generally schedule between noon and 6 pm Tues-Sat, with other times negotiable on an individual basis. I graduated law school in 2006, have been admitted to the bar in NY and NC, and spend most of my time helping students prepare for the bar exam when I’m not working with LSAT students.

You can reach me by messaging me or emailing me directly at julielamberth@mac.com. If you email, please put “7Sage LSAT” in the subject line, and if you don’t hear from me within a day, follow up with a message here as your email may have been spam filtered.