I was recently granted 50% extra time, and I've been adjusting to the time difference by doing 53-minute-long sections. With LR in particular, I am finding that I am left with a lot of extra time after I finish a section (I usually finish with about 20-23 minutes remaining). This is obviously a huge amount of time on the LSAT, but I feel like I am not using it properly since I am still scoring -4 or -5 on most LR sections. Does anyone have any recommendations on how I should make use of this extra time? Is it worthwhile to go through the entire section again and try to redo it? Or should I just focus on the couple hardest questions in the section?
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This question confused me. I thought that “Driving position affects both comfort and the ability to see the road clearly” provided a causal explanation for (1) the claim that a driver who is uncomfortable eventually becomes fatigued, making it more difficult to concentrate on the road, and (2) the claim that the better the visibility from the driver’s seat, the more aware the driver is. So, I picked C. Can someone explain why this phrase does NOT provide a causal explanation?
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I am a firm believer that repetition increases comfort. As you get more accustomed to timed sections and PTs, you will learn that coming across unusual games or difficult questions isn’t the end of the world (and that it’s really just a reality of the LSAT). There is no way to “cheat” experience; you’ve either taken a bunch of timed sections or you haven’t.
All of this is to say two things: you shouldn’t feel like you’re abnormal, and things will get better with reps. Your mentality can certainly cause your score to fluctuate greatly, but with practice you’ll learn to minimize these fluctuations and, eventually, make them basically nonexistent.
Thanks for your response! Are you a proponent of doing every single logic game in existence?
I also never ended up taking the test, FWIW.
I studied for the LSAT for 3 months last summer but had to stop due to a personal matter. I am now picking it back up in preparation for the August LSAT. Anyone have advice on how to get back into LSAT prep after extended time away??
And, in case you were wondering, the two sections did not vary much in terms of difficulty.
I’m pretty new to prep, and I just started taking full-length timed sections. The degree to which stress and panic impacts performance on this test is bewildering to me. I took a timed games section, got thrown off guard by a question or two, and began to panic. I then forgot my technique, muddled through the rest of the section, and wound up going -7. Once I regained my composure, I took another section—this time much calmer and more focused. -2. Does anyone else experience these kinds of fluctuations based on mentality?
I'm very interested, if there's still room!
For Q27, I chose C because I thought that passage A did in fact offer a policy recommendation: “a principle of rectification” that ought to govern land ownership. I know this analysis is flawed in some way, but I’m not quite sure how. Is it because “policy recommendation” goes a bit too far? Maybe passage A is more offering an abstract view, leaving it (in theory) to policymakers in a given country to flesh it out.