Hello Val,

My names Michael. I also graduated in 2020. I hit a 168 on my last LSAT back in January but I was scoring in the low 170s on practice tests. I'm aiming for the October LSAT this year to apply early in this cycle ( correcting a mistake I made last cycle). My games section doesn't really need any work but RC/LR is where I get most of my wrong answers, especially RC. I never thought of a study group myself but seeing your post made me realize how effective something like this can be. My schedule lines up with yours for the most part, however, I currently work Tue-Thu. Wednesdays I would be available from 7:30 your time but I wont be available Tue/Thu for another week or so (quitting the job asap to focus more on the LSAT). I really want to be apart of this not for the accountability aspect, if you need that I think you're in trouble, but for the increased understanding there is to be had by cooperating. Let me know.

Best,

Michael

Edit: I'm a low GPA high LSAT applicant so I really need my LSAT score to be as high as possible.

Besides the obvious of keep practicing, what really helped me improve my speed is to resist worrying about speed. Go through the questions calmly with confidence. Build yourself a rhythm of in answering the questions that you hold consistently. If you see that rhythm isn't fast enough then find the spots you can take slight shortcuts and increase your pace slightly. Ultimately you want to have rhythm which is fairly quick but within which you have developed a strong association with being calm and confident. Best of luck.

P.S. Little thing I like to do is skip all parallel and flaw parallel questions in LR until I finished all the other questions. Those questions require so much reading and take so much time that they mess up that rhythm for me. JY goes into more detail as to why this type of thing is helpful in the coconut analogy.

Ty JY, love the explanation for Q27.