What exactly is blind reviewing?

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• Alex Alum Member ⭐

  August 2016 23929 karma

  
  
  Here is a 3 part video of J.Y. explaining it better than I can.
  
  But here is a quick summary of BR and why is it helpful and how to do it:
  
  BR is a study method you employ after a timed section or full-timed PT.
  During the timed section/test you circle any answers you are not 100% sure about. Then after you are done you go back and review the questions you circled with out being timed.
  
  Why is it helpful? Because you are not focusing on just what answer is right or wrong, but rather your thought process on getting there. It enables you to become cognizant of exactly how you are approaching the questions you are getting wrong or are unsure of and find ways to correct them.
  
  If you just simply score your test before your BR it, J.Y. likens it to gambling. Because if you get it right, great, you won! But did you really learn anything? If you BR your tests you are actually learning and developing good habits.
  
• Cant Get Right Yearly + Live Member Sage ⭐ 🍌 7Sage Tutor

  August 2016 27860 karma

  Yeah, and just for extra emphasis, it really is important to not score your timed test before your BR. It really undermines the entire process.
  
  It's also helpful to write your BR out. It's surprisingly easy to say, "oh, I see" and then go to write it down and actually have no clue what's going on. It's kind of funny how often that happened to me. In a good BR, you should identify the question stem, write out a breakdown of the stimulus, write out a breakdown of each answer choice, and analyze each answer choice explaining why each is either right or wrong.
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  Nanchito-1-1 Alum Member

  August 2016 1762 karma

  Very important to do your br on clean copies too. That way you don't convince yourself you're right when really you're wrong lol.
• MrSamIam Inactive ⭐

  August 2016 2086 karma

  Everyone here pretty much covered what BR is. The way I see it, it's essentially an untimed, full-length PT.
  The steps are quite simple:
  1) Take your PT
  2) As you're taking a PT, circle questions that you have either: A) Didn't answer, Guessed on, or C) Answered, but are not 100% sure as to why the 1 correct AC is correct AND why the 4 incorrect ACs are incorrect.
  3) Go through and redo/do all of the circled questions
  (Note: By this point, your test should be left ungraded so as to not create a bias towards how you approach your BR)
  4) Input numbers into analytics
  5) Review the questions you got wrong even after BR and the ones that you feel you just got lucky with.
• _oshun1_ Alum Member

  August 2016 3652 karma

  https://7sage.com/the-blind-review-how-to-correctly-prep-for-lsat-part-1/
• blah170blah Alum Inactive ⭐

  August 2016 3545 karma

  BR also means different things to different people.
  
  I know one of the sages on here would just review the questions he got wrong because he was spending way too much time on every section.
  
  My issue has been bad psychology when I feel the time crunch so I tend to redo whole sections instead of questions in order to solidify my reasoning.