RC Practice materials suggestions

StellaBlue

Hi all,

I just began the RC section of the curriculum, and I'm finding it sort of pointless to study along with the videos without having the passage in front of me. I've heard legends of a time when pdfs were available, but now that that's not a thing, I was hoping some of you had suggestions on how best to get my hands on study materials. How do you ensure you're not "wasting" material from PTs while just trying to learn/perfect the study methods?

(I'm sure this has been asked before....sorry for the repetition)

THANKS!

dennisgerrard

Use Manhattan RC guide. It helps me a lot, especially identifying the scale and question type.

AllezAllez21

Hi @StellaBlue,

As an ultimate+ member, you will be able to print out the drills for RC.

I realize that for the other videos, you cannot do that. I might suggest buying the three 10 Actuals books that cover nearly all LSAT preptests from 9-35. That will get you through the core curriculum. Each book is about $20.

As for not burning through material, just focus on using material from preptests 1-35 while you're in the curriculum phase.

StellaBlue

@dennisgerrard @AllezAllez21 thank you both so so much!

theLSATdreamer

@AllezAllez21 @StellaBlue haha i swear i used to just print screen every video crop it and print it.

Mellow_Z

I think I would target PT's 1-35 for drilling and learning the test. Don't feel bad about using these questions to learn from, study off of, practice on, etc. Save everything (well, as much as possible) of 36 and up for timed PT's after you are comfortable and have mastered the basics.

I think the best way to learn RC is to get a good understanding of how to approach these question types, and then practice. There are tons of methods out there (7Sage, Manhattan, LSAT Trainer, RC Bible, Powerscore, etc). You just have to figure out what works for you.

Regardless of which method you choose, I highly recommend the following webinar on active reading:
https://7sage.com/webinar/active-reading/

as well as these two :
https://7sage.com/webinar/jimmy-rc-qt
https://7sage.com/webinar/my-18-point-increase-story/ or

(Nicole has a RC notation strategy that a lot of people talk up - I have yet to watch this one myself, but it's on my to-do list for this week.

Secondly, I would recommend checking out this post : https://7sage.com/discussion/#/discussion/10749/my-rc-strategy-that-got-me-to-0

JustDoIt

Hi! I think there is no better RC practice than to keep doing passages over and over. As mentioned, I would stick to PTs 1-35 for this. This helped me tremendously. Also I would read the trainer. I know it's pretty basic for RC but it can really help with learning out to read for reasoning structure.

You can find sample chapters below. Hope this helps!

http://www.thelsattrainer.com/assets/4-lsat-reading-comp-basics-sample-chapter.pdf

http://www.thelsattrainer.com/assets/37-lsat-reading-comp-review-sample-chapter.pdf

StellaBlue

@JustDoIt @Mellow_Z thank you both so much, incredibly helpful!