Self-study
TLDR- for those who have found success above 165, do you have any tips for how to use a wrong answer journal and how to make it something useful and not just an endless notebook of writing I will never refer back to after working out a problem?
I finished core curriculum a few weeks ago and am starting to get to more consistent practice on PTs and full sections. When I took the LSAT in the fall I had a digital wrong answer journal that I used mostly to track trends (I wasn't using 7Sage at the time). Now that I am using 7Sage and have analytics, I get better data without having to compile all that myself.
The wrong answer journal/recording why and how I got something wrong, is still certainly helpful now as another means of forcing me to walk through my incorrect thought process, but I am still barely going back and looking at answers after doing an initial blind review plus notes.
Does anyone have tips or ideas of how to use a wrong answer journal in an effective way that will help me get better?
I did some Kaplan classes before 7Sage. I'm having much more success in 7Sage and the videos are a huge part in that for each question. But the one term I really liked from Kaplan, was "mismatched concepts".
I struggled with SA questions more than any other question, in part because I didn't fully understand the P->C Bridge as 7Sage has explained it. But having both of those together has helped me find a lot more success with SA:
Premise 1: B->C
Conclusion: A->C
The common concept is "C", and the MMC (mismatched concepts) are A and B. So I always know that my answers have to have both A and B mentioned (which normally helps eliminate 1 to 3 of the wrong answer choices that don't have both automatically), and then the correct answer is always the P to C bridge, or the premise that guarantees the connection. (A->B)
I don't know if that helps anyone make sense of it, but it took me way too long to properly understand and then apply the mismatched concept term from Kaplan with the P->C methodology from 7Sage, so hopefully it helps someone else struggling with these question types too.