So there is a lot of advice here, I'm only adding what has made the difference for me. I had -1/-0 in pretty much all of my LG practice and on test day. They became my favorite section.
Things to know that will save you time:
1.) Nearly every game and every question can be answered by JUST following inferences from the applications of rules. Don't immediately just jump into diagramming after reading the prompt and the rules. In fact, I MAYBE only needed to diagram one or two games for specific questions to double check that my answer selection was correct. Organize in your head what TYPE of game (sequence/in-or-out/complex chart etc). Once you have that info down, read the question stems as they often will literally tell you what to look for.
-I break this down in two ways:
FIRST WAY:
I call them"If placements"....where they tell you upfront which entity is placed and where, or whether it is in or out and its your job to just follow the set of triggers that occur. Once you do this, IMMEDIATELY just run through your rules and start seeing what triggers what. i.e. "Oh! I can't put P here because X is here, therefore P must go elsewhere....Next Rule: Oh, because P can't go there, therefore the only entities that could go in these spaces are A, G, N." The point is that the rules are 85% of success on LG. The remainder is made up but the SECOND WAY I break LG questions down: Could Be True/False vs Must Be True/False.
SECOND WAY:
Could Be True/False questions are ONLY ONLY ONLY asking for an entity that is flexible, meaning it can move around and is either not bound to one spot or is freed to move around because the placement of other entities+conditional logic (If X--> then Y / (not)~Y--> (not)~X) dictates that an entity now has the flexibility to be placed elsewhere. So! When I'm answering CBT/CBF questions in LG, I literally run through the rules and tell myself that if one of the answer choices is bound to one spot after I apply the rules, it absolutely cannot be the right answer. Often 4/5 wrong answers will be an entity that is bound to one spot OR one that you know to be blatantly false because of the application of the rules!
Must Be True/Must Be False questions are explicitly asking for the OPPOSITE of Could Be Trues/Could Be False questions. They specifically ONLY want an answer choice that is bound to one spot/in or out. So I mentally told myself, "If an answer choice is flexible, its not my answer." Running the rules, once again, will answer most of these questions in virtually seconds. The moment an answer choice given can be placed in two different spots whether in the same scenario or two different scenarios (game board), it is absolutely must be treated as the wrong answer. The right answer will be an entity that can only be placed in one spot no matter how many game boards/scenarios available, OR an entity that the rules force into ONE possible spot.
My advice for anyone who reads this is just zero in on the rules, the test makers gave them to you for a reason, and I can promise you your LSAT world will flip upside down if you just apply the rules one by one and see what inferences occur. The questions are essentially giving you a new rule to apply or giving you a trigger that will affect HOW the rules are applied. That's the secret. Hope this helps, good luck.
Also for reference, I went from a 148-->169 over 1.5 years of bettering my understanding on each section.
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So there is a lot of advice here, I'm only adding what has made the difference for me. I had -1/-0 in pretty much all of my LG practice and on test day. They became my favorite section.
Things to know that will save you time:
1.) Nearly every game and every question can be answered by JUST following inferences from the applications of rules. Don't immediately just jump into diagramming after reading the prompt and the rules. In fact, I MAYBE only needed to diagram one or two games for specific questions to double check that my answer selection was correct. Organize in your head what TYPE of game (sequence/in-or-out/complex chart etc). Once you have that info down, read the question stems as they often will literally tell you what to look for.
-I break this down in two ways:
FIRST WAY:
I call them"If placements"....where they tell you upfront which entity is placed and where, or whether it is in or out and its your job to just follow the set of triggers that occur. Once you do this, IMMEDIATELY just run through your rules and start seeing what triggers what. i.e. "Oh! I can't put P here because X is here, therefore P must go elsewhere....Next Rule: Oh, because P can't go there, therefore the only entities that could go in these spaces are A, G, N." The point is that the rules are 85% of success on LG. The remainder is made up but the SECOND WAY I break LG questions down: Could Be True/False vs Must Be True/False.
SECOND WAY:
Could Be True/False questions are ONLY ONLY ONLY asking for an entity that is flexible, meaning it can move around and is either not bound to one spot or is freed to move around because the placement of other entities+conditional logic (If X--> then Y / (not)~Y--> (not)~X) dictates that an entity now has the flexibility to be placed elsewhere. So! When I'm answering CBT/CBF questions in LG, I literally run through the rules and tell myself that if one of the answer choices is bound to one spot after I apply the rules, it absolutely cannot be the right answer. Often 4/5 wrong answers will be an entity that is bound to one spot OR one that you know to be blatantly false because of the application of the rules!
Must Be True/Must Be False questions are explicitly asking for the OPPOSITE of Could Be Trues/Could Be False questions. They specifically ONLY want an answer choice that is bound to one spot/in or out. So I mentally told myself, "If an answer choice is flexible, its not my answer." Running the rules, once again, will answer most of these questions in virtually seconds. The moment an answer choice given can be placed in two different spots whether in the same scenario or two different scenarios (game board), it is absolutely must be treated as the wrong answer. The right answer will be an entity that can only be placed in one spot no matter how many game boards/scenarios available, OR an entity that the rules force into ONE possible spot.
My advice for anyone who reads this is just zero in on the rules, the test makers gave them to you for a reason, and I can promise you your LSAT world will flip upside down if you just apply the rules one by one and see what inferences occur. The questions are essentially giving you a new rule to apply or giving you a trigger that will affect HOW the rules are applied. That's the secret. Hope this helps, good luck.
Also for reference, I went from a 148-->169 over 1.5 years of bettering my understanding on each section.