Hi all,
So I have been studying over 7 months for this darn exam, but I am still not reaching my potential despite significant gains! For instance, I blind review at a 169, but receive only about 50 correct under timed conditions. I leave 40-60 questions unanswered. I have seen dramatic increases in my LG after going through all of 7sage's LG lessons, so thanks a lot for that YJ! However, my LR and RC have remained stagnant and I feel I hit a hump here completing about 14-18 LR's/section and 13-14 RC's/section. I have faith that I can get over these humps, considering I have score perfect on all three sections before.
However, RC is my main problem right now, since it is difficult to cut problems, and do much more practice on apart from blind reviewing the passages in comparison to "the fool proof method to a perfect LG section method." After reading an RC book by manhattan and going up a handful of points to about 11 correct on RC, I have consistently scored 9-13 correct on this section without fail. This is sort of expected, because I don't really practice RC the way I do LG, as I don't drill RC at all besides in PTs' (I am scared to run out of RC passages for PTs' - stupid I know), but I also replaced them with Economist passage drills. In any case, Is their any suggestions for both RC and getting my speed up to a 160+ speed?
Thanks everyone!
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Also, like @Al said, are you reading for structure vs. context? i was reading for context for over 4 months and was getting no where, and once i started reading for structure i found my RC improved drastically.
And yes, you can definitely be at 160+ progress, you just have to take a section and drill into it..
A general note - the LSAT is a MASTERY test. This is the heart of your issue. You know enough to eventually be able to identify what's going on and stumble your way through those answer choices (hence, your high blind review score), but you don't know it well enough to spot it on sight or manipulate it on demand. When you get better at the underlying skills, the speed will come. Identifying which underlying skills need work, therefore, is the first step.
So, now that you have shown me a handful of skill I consider (hyper-specific) weaknesses how can I both work on them without messing up test material and find all the other (hyper-specific) weaknesses I may have??
Talking with a tutor obviously helps, but it's cheaper if you can figure it out on your own. Either way, you have to resolve or at least identify your issues before moving forward; flawed practice is worthless practice.
http://7sage.com/discussion/#/discussion/683/answering-a-question-problem
Just want to ask that by 'have to answer questions quickly' do you mean most of the time there's no need to refer to the passage?
Thanks!
Most students, when they refer back, are hunting for the answer to the question. That aimless searching, hoping to stumble upon the answer, is what really eats up time. When you refer back, you should be refreshing your memory on a specific piece of information, and you should know where (generally) that information appears.