Regressing in LR

ruddenrialey

I switched gears in my studying to focus on RC, while focusing on RC and completing the RC hero course, I took a step back from LR. Prior to my switch, I was getting -6 to -8 on LR, now as I've tried to tackle the entire test - I've found myself getting -8 to -10 on LR. I take the test in two weeks, is there anything I can do to help improve my LR to where I was before? I'm not even sure where I'm going wrong anymore. I keep a wrong answer journal to review where I go wrong, but it doesn't seem to be helping. I've read loophole, LR bible, did the whole 7sage curriculum, so I'm unsure of how to move forward, and I don't want to spend any more money on prep since my test is so soon. My most common wrong questions are NA, SA, and Flaw. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

missjurisdoc

I would be feeling bad about that too. Sometimes you do worse after improving though. I don't know my current range but I am least above average. Maybe we can chat on discord for a few and I can at least encourage you. I have the live subscription and sometimes have studied with others.

tuffnoogeys

Look at the most common types of questions you get wrong and create drills with just those. If you are not understanding JY's explanations, you can put the questions into Chat gpt, ive found their explanations are pretty good. Best of luck!

amareshyolo

Given that you've identified NA/SA/Flaw as weak points, I think that's a great start. In my opinion you should take a look at your process and see what's going wrong.

For SA questions find the premises and the conclusion then find the gap. The correct answer logically fills that gap (aka smoothly leads from the premises to the conclusion).

For NA questions find the premises and the conclusion then find the gap. The answer is something that the argument can't exist without (try the negation test and see if that works for you).

For flaw questions find the premises and the conclusion then try to work out what mistake the author is making.

For all of these questions having some idea as to a prephrase/prediction can help you to not aimlessly look at random answers and be more structured. Looking at common LSAT flaws might be a good start as a lot of them are recurring (sampling issues, correlation-causation, mixing up necessary and sufficient conditions, etc.).

I'd push back slightly against using GPT because in my experience it does get conditional reasoning wrong and I'd rather go to other sources for more indepth explanations. Wishing you all the best!

-Amaresh

natemanwell1

I would say probably not. I read The Loophole and found it extremely unhelpful. I read RC Dragon which was solid but there are a ton of spelling mistakes which is pretty frustrating for a 500 page book. If you're missing that many, seems like you're not using the scope flaw. You got to memorize the technique for every question type. But it sounds like you're doing way too much theory and way too little practice.

missjurisdoc

I agree with nate; need more drills-