Finished core curriculum, now what?

Cant Get Right

First of all, high five!

So now what do I do? Take a break? Drill? PT? Start over and do it again? What have some of y’all done to transition out of the curriculum?

Jonathan Wang

Congratulations! Now, you get to take a test and blind review it to find out where your theory is not translating into practice. Work on those things, and then repeat until target score is achieved (hooray!) or until burned out (take a break, then start again later).

danielznelson

Do you have the Cambridge PDFs? I used those to drill by question type/difficulty after finishing the "curriculum" (came to 7Sage a bit later into my process and didn't follow 7Sage's curriculum to the tee) and it seemed to help.

J.Y. Ping

I made a quick video addressing this:

Cant Get Right

Well, that’s what I’d call a thorough response. Thanks guys!

apublicdisplay

JY should have been nominated as the next supreme court justice.

katherine.t

"What no. Who cares?"
- JY's opinion on 4/5 Supreme Court cases

Cant Get Right

So just took my first post curriculum PT. It is literally killing me to not check my score. And by literally, I mean metaphorically. I’m guessing a range of -9 to -16, but what I’m really concerned with at this point is a 180 BR. Lots of room to improve on games, so will begin my fool proofing right away. Time was not a huge issue, so that’s encouraging, but I still want to shave about 5 minutes off each section to have some room to breathe/double check my work. All in all, I feel good with where I’m at, so hopefully my BR and timed score will justify that.

skaplan9190

Let us know how it went once you're all done with the BR!

Cant Get Right

@skaplan9190 Happy to report that I hit my target score with a 180 BR. Looks like it’s time to fool proof some games!

I’d already drank heavily from the 7Sage cool aid, but I think I’d like some more please.

skaplan9190

wow that's fantastic! congrats and keep it up

Addistotle

180 BR is awesome! I'm hoping to pound off the 15.5% I have left by Sunday!

danielznelson

Wow! Did you BR only questions circled or go through every question?

Cant Get Right

@danielznelson
I think you’re only supposed to do the ones you circle, so that’s all I did. Full disclosure though, I did have two confidence errors, but it didn’t bump my score down from 180. I checked my confidence errors and they were really dumb mistakes, which I really hate. I’d much rather miss something confusing because I have no idea how to work to improve on careless errors.

Nanchito-1-1

@"Cant Get Right"
Damn, you must be a baby wizard. Great job!!

Cant Get Right

Not going to lie @nanchito, I feel absolutely amazing right now. I'm allowing it for today only, haha. I've been at this for a long, long time and I've learned the secret to the LSAT. These PT/BR numbers do not reflect my intelligence at all, but I do feel like they reflect my discipline and work ethic. That's what it's all about. Work hard, don't cut corners, don't lie to yourself. That's all the LSAT is. Now I've just got to keep myself from being content. I know I'll plateau if I relax. I've really only just started.

danielznelson

That's amazing! I have been doing complete, question-by-question BR's, because I do tend to under circle, though perhaps I should just re-prioritize what I'm circling.

danielznelson

Yeah. Looking back at the BR process laid out in the curriculum, I'm definitely under-circling. And in terms of avoiding careless mistakes, it comes with time. I myself tended to make at least a few per test, and while I still fall to this trap every once in a while, I've gotten much better at avoiding them. Most of it for me comes down to intuition - I have a certain feeling that what I'm doing isn't what I should be doing, haha. This is why I decided to do question-by-question regardless as to whether or not I circled, but I really shouldn't be doing that. I plan to start writing down the mistakes I've made (e.g. not reading the actual question thoroughly, forgetting a rule in a LG) in order to more consciously avoid the ridiculous mistakes I make. This probably doesn't pertain exactly to your confidence errors, but it may and has for me in the past. While I haven't written down mistakes yet, reminding myself of some of the errors I just looove to make has helped me a lot.

Cant Get Right

@danielznelson said:
I plan to start writing down the mistakes I've made (e.g. not reading the actual question thoroughly, forgetting a rule in a LG) in order to more consciously avoid the ridiculous mistakes I make.

This is a brilliant idea, and I’m totally going to steal it.

runiggyrun

@"Can’t Get Right" High-five for your 180 BR! Based on your responses in the forums, I knew you were up there!

danielznelson

I've been keeping mental tabs of frequency as well, though I really just need to make it concrete already. For example, I noticed that with several Strengthening questions, I would "strengthen" the WRONG argument, because I rushed through the actual question and didn't notice that the main argument was actually being specifically asked about. Definitely never making that dumb of a mistake ever again.

J.Y. Ping

@"Can’t Get Right" Good job!

Note for others: you're definitely NOT supposed to review the un-circled questions on BR. That way when you finally check your answers, you give yourself the opportunity to uncover over-confidence errors.

danielznelson

Thanks for the reminder. I am unquestionably over-confident (or more accurately, careless) over some questions I originally believe to not be of issue.