I had the same problem. It took me a long time before I could even take a practice timed exam because my brain would freeze up and it killed my concentration. I feel like this exam is equally a mental as well as a skills test and these two go hand in hand.

I started researching how to focus under pressure and I came across a lot of insights from professional athletes who could "get in the zone." This is where you need to be to master this test. I've learned that on sections I perform my best at, my mind is 100% in the zone. Most notable I think is Tiger Woods who's arguably the best golfer because of his extreme focusing ability. He said his dad used to train him to focus under an intense amount of distraction which is why he can block things out and perform so well under pressure.

And when you can block everything out, you can focus and perform your best - you can allow your skills and intuition to actually work for you. This also requires you to cultivate a relaxed state of mind which goes into more terrain. This test is hard because it's inherently stressful and it demands you stay in a state of mental relaxation in order to perform the best.

I spent nearly a year mastering extreme focus and concentration through mindfulness and meditation, primarily for this exam. You have to train your mind to not react emotionally to the clock or to questions that trip you up. That's not easy. It's an emotional response to allow the time to distract us. This was for me the hardest thing to work on with the LSAT because it felt out of my control - but it's not. And although my score on the last test wasn't what I wanted, I was happy with the fact that I was able to go into the exam and put everything out of my mind without any anxiety and just perform. To that extent, I called it a win.

I recommend practicing meditation and mindfulness to cultivate intense focus and concentration which is ultimately what you need if you're having trouble with the clock. Also, let go of any fear of failure which usually causes test anxiety. As you get better and improve your skills, your confidence will also improve which will make it easier to concentrate as well when the clock turns on. Hope this helps.

The trick to this question is to recognize the word "allowed." Because Senegalese gold is 92%, that allows it to not be refined. And because other gold is refined, this implies that it's not at least 92% which is what B says.

You have to keep your eye on the conclusion that a reporter can scoop all others. And to scoop, you need to know something more than all the others. BUT, if none of them know anything more than each other then they can't scoop - E.

C is exactly accurate. It's a point which is the problem the first sentence in the passage explores and coincides with the other form of penicillin resistance

My dad used to tell me to look at the horizon on the boat to prevent motion sickness. A pretty much said that :)

I don't like this question because D doesn't have to be true for all people. It makes an assumption that none of these people are exercising to burn the energy, so it flat out recommends limiting simple carbs. What if this group of people who are on a low-fat diet are vigorously exercising and burning their fat stores? Then it doesn't get stored and then it doesn't turn to fat in the same way as a couch potato...it's a generic recommendation

I think the best strategy is to foolproof the games if you're shooting for a perfect or near perfect score. I'm shooting for a high 170s too and LG has been my weakness. I had -2 or -3 due to stupid mistakes upon review and the only way is to work and re-work and re-work ALL the games until it's total mastery. I actually made a spreadsheet and started to write down specific performance ratings and patterns for each game, etc and I'm doing it until it's 100% mastered and I can't make any more mistakes. It's helped a lot by ingraining these repetitive inferences and time-saving strategies for eliminating answers. LG mastery it seems is all about practice so that these inferences are totally second nature and can't be missed.

I didn't like answer C because I typically read "fewer" as anything between 1 less or a lot less, so it wasn't specific enough. Most LSAT answers that use this word are wrong. I moved on to read E though which was obviously the correct answer, but C was actually a very weak explanation for the LSAT

If the conclusion is that oral is to be preferable and that oral means doing away with useless and irrelevant, then the principle, therefore, relates to economy of expression (D).