Quick Tip: Reuse Your Question-Specific Game Boards!
Some Logic Games questions add a new condition (e.g., “if F is included…”) and ask you to evaluate the remaining possibilities. But for the game’s other questions, the scenarios you constructed with the extra constraint in mind (e.g., “FGJ in, EH out”) are still valid without it. As long as you didn’t alter the original game rules, you can use those game boards to eliminate answers on other questions. This often applies to questions that ask, “Which could/cannot be true?” or “Which pieces can go in this position?”
Discussion: Isolate Your Targets
When studying for the LSAT, sometimes you’ll hit a wall, get stuck on a score plateau, and feel like you’re putting in tons of time and effort without much to show for it. It’s frustrating! The LSAT tests a range of distinct skills and only gives you an aggregate score. To study effectively, concentrate on specific areas to determine which is keeping you from your goal score.
Try practicing with drills that focus on one aspect of the test. For instance, all sections require efficiently processing information, but you can challenge yourself further with a Reading Comprehension memory drill, where you answer questions based on your low-resolution summaries rather than referencing the passage. You can construct a drill of only four- and five-star-difficulty Logical Reasoning questions to stress your analytical skills, or take a full section in half the time to pressure your allocation strategy. It won’t be easy, and certainly won’t mirror testing conditions, but that’s exactly what’ll help you hone each skill in isolation.
If you’d like to get even more specific, 7Sage’s analytics are a data-driven option to inform your study approach. You can select specific tests or look at them all together, putting your performance in context to target your drilling. Go beyond generally practicing a section—by specifically and separately focusing on individual components of your LSAT approach, you’ll perform much better when it’s time to put them all together.