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Hi y'all!
I took the Testmasters course for the September LSAT, started studying in July with a cold diagnostic of 153. My highest PT was a 169 two days before the LSAT (I had been steadily PTing around 165-170), and ended up with a 167 on test day.
During the course I had been knocked out by a nasty case of food poisoning for two weeks or so (I ended up in the hospital. Do NOT, I repeat, do NOT go to the Chipotle on N. State in Chicago) and had missed a lot of critical time for test prep. I sucked it up and took the LSAT anyway even though I knew I could've put more time in.
So, after the September scores came out, I registered for December. Upon realizing it was the basically the same price to reactivate my Testmasters account vs. getting 7sage (with like...50 more PTs, I mean c'mon), I have defected! I was wondering if anyone could give me any advice as to how I should go about using 7sage to prep.
My individual section breakdowns usually go something like -6/-7 on RC, -8/-9 on LR, and -0/-1 on LG. On the September test I posted -5 on RC (somehow got Judicial Candor all correct), -10 on LR (a whopping 7 points dropped on the second LR section), and -0 on LG.
LG was my weakest section starting out (I had missed something like 15-20 LG questions on my first diagnostic) so I had put most of my time into Games. Other than drilling individual LR question types and RC sections repeatedly, I didn't give my due diligence to those sections and suffered for it.
I've skimmed through a few course videos already but don't really know how to structure my study schedule around the material. I don't feel it's feasible (or efficient) to do all 800 hours of the course before December. Should I just be doing more PTs? Identify what weaknesses? Figure out what the hell a Blind Review is? Give up completely? Any advice is appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Hi Leah!
Do you have a general strategy going into RC sections? Are the questions you've been missing in RC consistently in a single passage or spread across evenly throughout the entire section? How long do you spend reading the passage vs. reading questions? Personally, I had found that my errors clustered around single passages (even though I was finishing with time to spare!). To improve, I focused on developing a better reading strategy to make sure I fully comprehended the section before moving on.
Your absolutely stellar BR score indicates that you don't have issues with understanding and you clearly know the core concepts, but that competency with the material might be the bigger problem. Develop confidence and internalize that timing!
I agree with @ that you should be focusing more on LG. It's definitely more bang for your buck with two weeks left. See if there is anything in the analytics that tell you if you're missing specific game types or question types that you can drill on.
If you want to go with the RC route, I recommend that you drill individual RC sections (newer ones, at least within the past decade, if you haven't used them---they tend to test on broader, perspective questions).