Who here keeps an LSAT journal?

NotMyName

I've seen a few Sages recommend this and I'm curious how you find it helpful. I'm also curious what sort of things you write about, how often your write, and what kind of structure do you use?

Thanks for sharing : )

_oshun1_

I keep a "journal" of sorts. The most useful thing in it is the pages that I keep track of which logic games I need to practice, what types of LR I'm struggling in, and things I should keep note of as I'm doing RC. I use it whenever I'm blind reviewing and when I'm drilling logic games.

NotMyName

@"surfy surf" Ah I see. So for you, it serves more as a "state of affairs" -- keeping track of weakness areas and the strategies you need to employ to address them?

needmylsat180

I use my journal as reflection, like what i did wrong today and why do i think i chose the wrong answer etc

extramedium

I don't know what an LSAT journal is. Can someone please explain?

BranTwice

I have a small moleskin journal, of sorts. I use it to track my progress statistically, and I make note of concepts I wish to employ on my next preptest. The stats pages are like LSAT Analytics, but they display the information with more depth. I track how much of each question type I miss in LR, and which types of games trip me up. I also track the differentials so I can see if I am actually improving on these areas of weakness.

Sprinkles

Yup, I do. It's pretty resourceful in the sense that I can refer back to it to see my progress on certain games, question types etc. But you can easily do that on an excel sheet, it's all about preference. Besides that though, I like to write down notes as I go through lessons, I usually don't even refer back to it but the idea of writing down what I'm learning is helpful retention wise.

conraddnoronha

So I have a book of all the LR questions I get wrong. I don't know if that's called a journal. It will be great if one of you can elaborate a little more on how to maintain a journal and what to add in it.

MA to170

Don't have a journal per se; but have a lot of papers and once I understand a topic put it in a pile as reference point; then review at later date, if/when needed.

J Aranda

I have a Journal that I use. I mostly just take notes from the lessons on here. I divided it up by Logical Reasoning, Logic Games and Reading Comp. I've found it's helped me, because I can go back and review my notes on a certain topic, and I know where to find it quickly instead of having to go through the lessons to find it.

Cant Get Right

@jkatz1488 said:
So for you, it serves more as a "state of affairs" -- keeping track of weakness areas and the strategies you need to employ to address them?

I really like this description for what I do. I've got a lot of specific questions/games/passages. What I normally find most useful are 1) specific questions/games/passages I never was able to quite break open to a level of full understanding, and 2) specific questions/games/passages where I felt like I experienced breakthroughs. These, along with the accompanying explanations and reflections, are great to revisit. Those breakthroughs are great to reinforce and build on, and as I progressed, I was often able to turn my struggle questions into new breakthroughs. It helps to not only track our understanding, but also our processes and approaches to things which are how we arrive at that understanding.

NotMyName

@"Cant Get Right" Love it. I am imagining two columns: "Tough nuts to crack" and "Peanut butter". The goal being to move into peanut butter.

Cant Get Right

@jkatz1488 said:
@"Cant Get Right" Love it. I am imagining two columns: "Tough nuts to crack" and "Peanut butter". The goal being to move into peanut butter.

Lol, yeah, that is a wonderful way to look at it.

Sprinkles

@jkatz1488 said:
@"Cant Get Right" Love it. I am imagining two columns: "Tough nuts to crack" and "Peanut butter". The goal being to move into peanut butter.

But what if it's crunchy peanut butter?

Cant Get Right

@"montaha.rizeq" said:
But what if it's crunchy peanut butter?

Until it's smoothy perfection, there's still work to be done.