Help! PT 137 BR 166

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• Dr. Yamata Member Inactive ⭐

  June 2015 578 karma

  Timing is clearly an issue for you.. If you finished all the questions, then the time pressure caused you to be more inaccurate. If you didn't get to all the questions, well, that's what caused the low score. Keep drilling question types and try to build up some speed. Finishing in time and accurately is a function of how quickly you respond correctly to each queston. Get the average time per question down, and your total time per section will go down. Timed PTs are useful to get an overall "feel" for how fast you should be going, and to diagnose issues like this.
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  Student76 Alum Member

  June 2015 324 karma

  You've only taken 1? It takes practice. Don't start worrying until you get the same results at 15. There is definitely a pattern with the tests.
• mpits001 Alum Member

  June 2015 938 karma

  What sections did you improve in the most after BR?
• JuliaZLSAT Member

  June 2015 77 karma

  I agree with @ashley3460 . Practice, practice and practice. It seems that you more or less understand the questions, you just need to learn to pace yourself and it comes with practice. Timed drills, sections and tests will help the most.
• dumblsatwriter Free Trial Member

  June 2015 7 karma

  Thank you all. @mpits001 I actually skipped 10 from first LR, 11 from second LR, 13 from RC and 14 from LG. All of them had significant increase. Probably games had the most as BR was -0.
  
  Can I get that much faster with practice?
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  Dr. Yamata Member Inactive ⭐

  June 2015 578 karma

  You might consider some of the books that arrange questions by type. That reaallly helped me pick up on the patterns in LR a lot faster than if I had 25 different questions of each type.
• Student76 Alum Member

  June 2015 324 karma

  Agree with @"Dr. Yamata" You learn how to identify the question type quickly by doing a bunch of them in bundles. You can see how many different ways "must be true, most strongly supported, Ect." are asked.
• Nanchito-1-1 Yearly Member

  June 2015 1762 karma

  just keep drilling. it's to soon to worry. make sure you have a good grasp on the method and core curriculum. start off slow and see if you can finish say 10 questions in 15 mins, or 20 in 30 mins, maybe a whole section in 42 mins... then after you get the hang of it, time yourself normally. I took a kaplan class that kinda was a bust, but they give you so much material. check this book out.
  
  http://www.amazon.com/LSAT-Mastery-Timing-Practice-Reasoning/dp/B004NJM6YW/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1434026134&sr=8-7&keywords=kaplan+logical+reasoning
  
  it arranges by question type and difficulty, and gives you explanations. additionally, it has like 25 practice sections you can drill.
  
  good luck=)
• dumblsatwriter Free Trial Member

  June 2015 7 karma

  Thank you @ashley3460 @"Dr. Yamata" @nanchito . As for drilling, I am assuming that you mean to do timed drilling then BR them, right? Also, as for section practicing, do you mean using old PTs real sections or pick a one type question and drill let's say 25 questions?
• brna0714 Alum Inactive ⭐

  June 2015 1489 karma

  Hey @dumblsatwriter -
  
  Not to take away from @nanchito 's advice (which was spot on) but you need to make sure that any material you're working through includes official LSAC-created questions and only official questions. Why waste your time with something that only approximates actual test questions when there is so much real material available?
  
  It wasn't clear from the description of the book linked to above whether the questions were Kaplan-created or nor but Kaplan has been known to write their own questions.
  
  If you plan to drill by type, I'd recommend the Cambridge packets.
  
  http://www.cambridgelsat.com/bundles/logical-reasoning-by-type/
• Nanchito-1-1 Yearly Member

  June 2015 edited June 2015 1762 karma

  @dumblsatwriter Yea, timed drilling and br. Id say do a bunch of the same type of question then work your way up to actual sections you pluck from the older preptests you have like 1-34
  
  @brna0714 The book cites every single question on the bottom of the page. for the sections they tell you what preptest it came from, but yea, make sure you're doing ACTUAL lsac questions for sure.
  
• nicole.hopkins Inactive Sage Inactive ⭐

  June 2015 7965 karma

  @dumblsatwriter said:
  Can I get that much faster with practice?
  

  Yes! Speed comes only with practice. Keep your head up