Hi friends! I've been studying for the LSAT while working a full time job, which means I wake up three hours early every morning to do my lessons and then do a few hours of studying each day of the weekend. I'm approaching the part of my course where I'm just supposed to be doing practice tests, and I was wondering how other 7Sagers in similar situations spaced these out.
I obviously can't complete the whole practice test before work during the week, but I also don't think I can do two practice tests and blind review them on the weekends in between. I was wondering if for the weeks with two PTs, I could do one Saturday and one Sunday, and then spend the rest of the week BRing both of them?
Let me know your thoughts!
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EX: Mon - PT / Tues, Wed - BR / Thurs - Review/Drill / Fri - Off/catch-up / Sat, Sun - PT & BR
Aside from PTs, I try to keep my chops up by doing a section before work during the weekdays (except on the weekday that I PT - need all the sleep I can get!).
I pull a section from PTs 1 - 10 and add as the fifth section to my timed PT. I use sections from PTs 11 - 35 for morning drills.
Hope this helps!
You've got to acknowledge the limitations this puts on you and manage your energy carefully. Aim for quality, not quantity. That means 1 PT/BR a week. This part of the course doesn't exist, haha. Use your more restricted time blocks during the week to drill, foolproof, and return to the curriculum.
In terms of specifics, what worked best for me was this:*
Monday: timed full LG and LR sections, BR both
Tuesday: timed full RC section, BR + workout/exercise
Wednesday: timed full LG and LR sections, BR both
Thursday: timed full LG section, BR + workout/exercise
Friday: take the day off, it's Friday. You need this.
Saturday: PT, then workout/exercise
Sunday: BR PT, then workout/exercise
*note that this was after I had finished the course and felt confident in all of my underlying skills, and after I had really drilled the crap out LG and felt very confident with it. If LG is a problem area, dedicate a ton of time to it, and you'll get better very quickly and your skills will stick around because the games are all just bad copies of each other.
So, you're essentially getting two PTs per week, plus some extra LG (which can be swapped with another section, obviously), while also maintaining some sanity, which is actually really important for the LSAT. Quality of time spent studying, which is dependent on the quality of one's mental state, is way more important than just taking a ton of PTs. The whole exercise thing is actually essential to LSAT prep, too (and, in my opinion, also for life in general) because it helps you de-stress, and perhaps most importantly, get good sleep.
The weekday sessions can also be used for drilling specific questions types, reviewing basics, or working on timing, e.g., limit section time to 30 minutes, 28 minutes, etc.
I fully recognize my study habits before under a different prep course was not good enough, so I'm hoping for clarification here.
You can also just re-use old preptests, too. I think reusing is really helpful because while I can almost always remember seeing a given question before, I can almost never remember what the answer was, so you still get good practice solving the problems. Not sure exactly what you mean by this, but interpreting the "than" as a "then", then the answer is yes.