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Saturday, Nov 26 2016

notguilty90862

Any Advice For a Final Stretch?

Hi 7sagers

I'm writing this Dec and possibly Feb from how things have been shaped.

I need some advice from those who have overcome similar problems as mine...

I have been battling LR for the past month or so and I have consistently been only getting around 14-16 right. I speed up to 23 questions, I get 7-8 wrong, I slow down to 18 Q's and still make around 3 mistakes. My goal is to hit atleast 20 on LR and I need some advice on how to get more accurate. As this road block has been keeping me back for sometime! I know one week might not be enough, but still I need a game plan; not just for this week but probably also after Dec for Feb.

Any help would be appreciated...

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General · Alternative LSAT Strategy? Working back from last question to first
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Tuesday, Jan 24 2017

Hi

They don't necessarily get harder after 18. Usually the first 10 or 12 are easy, after that it gets harder but there's a fluctuation of how hard. From personal experience I can say that usually I feel like there's a curve and the hardest ones are clustered around 15-19 and the ones before and after are not so hard. If you're getting fatigued, you should work on your stamina rather than trying to look for shortcuts, try to write 4 sections back to back (start with less and work your way up). Also, you should become so good and confident in your skills that there wouldn't be any hard questions for you per se (there's obviously exceptions, but generally speaking); your approach to difficulty should be the questions that can be done fast versus those that require a longer time investment. What I can recommend to you like many others would here is to absolutely do the first 10-12 first, then you would be skipping, if you read a stimulus and can't quite get it, circle it and move on. Now I don't know how your speed is, but by doing this, you would skip harder questions instead of wasting time and possibly getting them wrong and being forced to skip the never-got-to-do easy questions. And if your speed is great and you do get to finish a section usually, then great, you would spend the extra time gained by skipping at the end to do them, and this time you have a peace of mind that you only have a couple of harder questions and won't be worrying about time. This approach is for LR.

For RC, unfortunately I can't get to all 4 so I would always do the first 2 passages first and for my 3rd I would pick the one with more questions out of the remaining 2. And for the 4th one, I would guess a single letter that had least appeared for the section.

Just passing on what has worked out for me! Best of Luck :smile:

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General · Will doing more RC passages help to increase scores?
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Saturday, Nov 19 2016

@ The tip is Easier said than done! I'm personally struggling too with timing and the clock is ticking... 2 weeks to perfect RC :S

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LSAT · Thanks 7Sage -- You've taught me LR
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Saturday, Nov 12 2016

@

I know what you mean and usually I dont think twice when I see an answer that matches my prephrase or hits the spot; I choose and move on...

However, sometimes I catch myself spending huge amounts of time dwelling on 2-3 remaining choices... Do you suggest I abondon and move on despite the time I already invested into the question? What if there is no time to return at the end to complete it? And how exactly do you recognize a question as "skipable" or hard?

Im really stuck on doing 18 questions and the 7 questions I dont get to could really boost me up if I can get to them :/

It would be a dream to get to everything without even time to spare lol

Do u think i should just prep LR sections alone to get better? Something like the first 10 Q's in 10 mins, etc...?

Thanks

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LSAT · Thanks 7Sage -- You've taught me LR
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Friday, Nov 11 2016

Hi

Any advice for increasing speed? I normally run out of time as I get to Q19-20 (21-22 once in a while). My accuracy is acceptable (-2 to -4 on those attempted) but not getting to those last questions, which I would get right have I had more time, really hurts my overall score. I haven't tried hustling for speed so much though as you mentioned which I should try! Any other advice is appreciated!

Congrats on this achievement and best of luck in December :)

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LSAT · How are powerscore workbooks?
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Friday, Nov 11 2016

All Workbooks are absolute waste; basic copy of drill in bibles + some real lsat questions I'm sure you can find for free! RC bible also waste; definitely put me on the wrong path of underlining, circling, and other such wastes of time on RC... LR + LG bible are great though, perfect to build a solid foundation.

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Thursday, Nov 10 2016

Hi

I just answered a similar question, so I decided to copy it here as it's relevant...

I was personally stuck on Cracking the RC code for a while. I used all sorts of methods; mostly concerned with coding different things (boxes, circles, etc.). However, recently I started treating passages as interesting articles and stopped underlining, and rather just took a second after each paragraph to analyze what I just read. I started to see that I comprehended better since I did not stop every 2 second to underline or stress over missing things! So I would read the whole thing with a faster than average speed, once I'm done, I would go over it quickly to recap the structure (this usually takes 3.5-4 mins) and then I attack the question. Something I was missing most of the time was speed speed speed! You have to hustle your way through questions... time yourself and aim for 30-40" per long ones, 20-30" for medium ones, and 15-25" for shorter ones. Once you get a sense of appropriate speed but the timer away and relax and do your best. My time is still not within these standards, but now I finish passages in the 8-9 minute mark and get to do all 4 passages with around -1 to -2 on each (total 18-22). This has been huge for me; I used to do 2-3 passages only with very bad accuracy ending up with 9/27 on the section.

I feel like RC has been made portrayed as this beast for all of us and we spend so much time trying to CRACK IT! But it's really not that bad and a minimalist method have worked better than other methods for me.

Good luck :)

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General · Will doing more RC passages help to increase scores?
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Thursday, Nov 10 2016

Hi Tina

I was personally stuck on Cracking the RC code for a while. I used all sorts of methods; mostly concerned with coding different things (boxes, circles, etc.). However, recently I started treating passages as interesting articles and stopped underlining, and rather just took a second after each paragraph to analyze what I just read. I started to see that I comprehended better since I did not stop every 2 second to underline or stress over missing things! So I would read the whole thing with a faster than average speed, once I'm done, I would go over it quickly to recap the structure (this usually takes 3.5-4 mins) and then I attack the question. Something I was missing most of the time was speed speed speed! You have to hustle your way through questions... time yourself and aim for 30-40" per long ones, 20-30" for medium ones, and 15-25" for shorter ones. Once you get a sense of appropriate speed but the timer away and relax and do your best. My time is still not within these standards, but now I finish passages in the 8-9 minute mark and get to do all 4 passages with around -1 to -2 on each (total 18-22). This has been huge for me; I used to do 2-3 passages only with very bad accuracy ending up with 9/27 on the section.

I feel like RC has been made portrayed as this beast for all of us and we spend so much time trying to CRACK IT! But it's really not that bad and a minimalist method have worked better than other methods for me.

Good luck :)

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LSAT · Official February LSAT Discussion Thread
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Saturday, Feb 04 2017

It was 102 Questions, you didn't miss bubble! 27, 26, 26, 23

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