Yeah, feel free to message me here :)

Check out the website for the trainer (www.thelsattrainer.com) - the author has study schedules that should give you a good idea of how long it should typically take to go through the book.

Hope that helps.

Thank you so much for all your insight. Seems like many high scorers tend to categorize their mistakes as well, so it's nice to see your breakdown of each category. Also, I appreciate the insight on how to approach BR.

Thanks for the tutoring offer, I'm OK for now, but I will keep it in mind! Congrats again on your awesome score!

@ On the topic of habit, it may be helpful to start waiting until after section 3 to take a break, as you won't get a break until then on the real thing. Also, going to the bathroom (and eating a snack) during break are allowed.

I'll send you a message.

Hey K-Magnet, thanks for the insight! I'm just curious if you can expand on what you mean by sparks of memory and an example of the training you personally use?

Thanks!

Awesome, good luck!

Part of what makes BR useful is that it gives you a chance to see how well you are able to identify which questions you should revisit. That way, on the real test, your intuition on which questions to go back to (if time permits) is accurate. So, I think it works against you to circle just so you have something circled to go back to. If you are only circling a few, then so be it. Those are the ones you believe you got wrong, so check those. After BR, you will see if your intuition about which ones to check is correct and you can choose to continue circling the same amount or more or less.

Edit: I agree with K-magnet that going over any question that you are at all unsure about will help you improve your score. (i.e. The number of questions you circle should be a reflection of the number of questions you had doubts about...not how many questions you think you should have circled.)

Thanks! Very helpful. I am thinking about trying this or something similar - how would you recommend approaching a PT review to make the most out of it?

Also, how close to your PT average was your actual score?

Sorry for all the questions!

What's your score range/what are you aiming for? Message me instead if you'd like

Ok, I'll send you a message now. Don't downplay that - 0, that's pretty awesome! Working towards a consistent -0 sounds great!

"Then I typed up a review of the PT on the lsat subreddit."

I'm curious to see an example of what you mean by this - is there any way you could link it? @.phillip

Thanks for all the info you've shared!

@ - are you looking for anything specifically? (specific question type, etc?) 'Cuz there's a lot of info. in the previous comments.

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!! @

Hey,

I know you didn't specifically mention entrepreneurship, but this may be helpful: https://www.quora.com/Is-a-law-degree-valuable-for-entrepreneurs

Pretty sure it's pt 70. Can confirm later tonight if no one else knows for sure.

I feel like I may have read about this on 7sage before, but @ what you're talking about has a name:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect

The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias manifesting in two principal ways: unskilled individuals tend to suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly rating their ability much higher than is accurate, while highly skilled individuals tend to rate their ability lower than is accurate.

He explains it at one point in the course, but I can't remember where it was unfortunately. I'm pretty sure @ knows as well, you can ask him if you'd like http://classic.7sage.com/discussion/#/profile/457/Jonathan Wang

They don't have access to your cancelled score. It just says "cancelled" on your score report. Regarding the written reason for some schools, that might be true, but I don't know. Best to check with the schools that you are applying to (or someone else might know.) Good luck!

Great post @. Thanks for sharing!

Part of the purpose of BR is to see how well you can identify the questions that you may have gotten wrong. So, by going back and reviewing only the questions that you circled you:

1. Are able to BR in a reasonable amount of time (blind reviewing the entire test takes a very, very long time.)

2. Are able to get a feel for how well you can identify the questions you may have gotten wrong (i.e. if you circle question numbers 5, 6, and 13 in a section, and you got question 13 wrong, then you have a good sense for which questions you would have gotten incorrect, and your time is well spent going back to those questions on the day of the test (if time permits); on the other hand, if you circled 5, 6, and 13 and got questions 7, 11, and 22 wrong, then you not only misidentified 5, 6, and 13 as questions that are likely incorrect, but you also completely missed (were TOO confident about) the questions that you actually did get wrong.)

I hope that helps.

As an aside, I personally find it helpful to BR the entirety of LG, since 1) each question requires a good understanding of the main diagram/rules (i.e. if I am putting in the time and effort to go over the main diagram/rules, I will go ahead and do the rest of the game as well) and 2) LG has patterns that are a lot easier to pick up on than LR and RC, so (especially if I don't do well on a particular LG section) it will be worth my time to go over the entire section

Try it out both ways.

No matter what anyone says, at the end of the day, do what works best for you.

Personally, I find that each question type has a different strategy, and if I take the time to look at the question stem before reading the stimulus, I'll know exactly how to approach that specific question.

It makes me more efficient, so for me it is definitely critical.

Two tips:

1. Make an effort to finish the easy questions quickly (as long as you are still accurate) so that you have more time for the hard questions that require more effort

2. Make sure you take the time to identify premise and conclusion - this is half the battle, and will really help you answer the question (either by helping you eliminate answers, or spotting the right answer)

@ - just curious, what specifically was helpful for you in the Trainer?

also, I agree with @ (feel free to message me if you have any questions.)

Ehh, the more you keep it similar to test day conditions, the better. You're building skills right now, as well as habit, so it's to your advantage to stay as true to test-day conditions as possible. I understand not wanting to print out tests - trust me - but I really wouldn't risk having any extra factor affecting my score, and how you take the test (computer vs paper) is going to make a difference imo.

Good luck either way!