Help deciding what to focus on.

Sherriff Woody

I am scoring in the 165-167 range on my PTs and want to be hitting about 171 for the November LSAT. I am consistently missing only two questions on RC and getting them all right in blind review. On my last PT, the only reason I didn't get just one wrong on RC is because my time ran out and I couldn't answer it. My LR is obviously less consistent, (-3 and -8 on my last PT, 165). My question is whether I should focus all of my attention on LR in the next few weeks or try to get those easier-to-reach extra two points on RC first. Might be a dumb question just due to nerves kicking in, but curious what the best way to organize my study would be.

claudiae207perez

If your missed LR questions are on the same question types and not across the board, I'd focus on LR

RealGeeker

If you can identify consistent LR question types you are missing, I would focus on those. RC passages are IMO very difficulty/topic dependent, so if you already have a strong enough strategy for RC I would try and foolproof your LR. I'm in the same boat

s-1334200

I am scoring in the mid/high 170s and i can confidently say that you should be devoting all of your energy into LR over reading comp, given the info you provided. I was also in your boat a while ago. I was good and consistent in reading comp but my LR sections were variable. Trust me when i say that every sections is going to vary in difficulty, so going from -2/-3 down to -0 is a lot harder on a section than the jump from going consistently -8 down to a consistent -2. It sounds a little counter intuitive because you would think oh going from 8 down to 2 is a 4 question difference so surely thats harder. But that just simply isnt the case because not all questions are weighted the same. If you are getting -2 in RC i can almost guarantee that those are some of the toughest questions on the entire test. So it is not simple to "just get those right". Instead, there are probably tweaks you can make to your strategy in LR to squeeze out those few points. I did it in about a week so it is definitely possible. Take a read through my other comments to see some of the tweaks i made and hopefully one of them can help! Either way, dont stress to much I am sure you will do great on the real exam!