Section score vs PT score

evvomed4

Hey all, I've pivoted to drilling individual sections of practice tests and noticed that my splits are almost always better when I take sections separately compared to when I take them all at once (for example, taking all four sections of a PT one at a time, at different times might total -15, whereas taking them all at once to simulate a real LSAT might total -20). When combined, these section scores are better than my typical PT score; I'm obviously capable to getting the questions right, so I was wondering if it was a stamina issue/mental hangup, and how I'd go about fixing it?

Atlantis

If it's any help, when I do individual sections I usually get like 1-2 per section wrong, but when I do the whole PT, I get like 3-4 wrong per section. Obviously timing makes a difference, I'd say. When I split up individual sections to 5 questions a time or a passage a time, the error rate goes down even more, I think part of the challenge is the intense focus you have to maintain through the 3 hours.

l0bstah_roll207

Building off of what Atlantis said, yes, your focus and timing might be better doing one section rather than a whole PT, and there's really only one way to improve on this and that's practice and drilling. I'd recommend focusing on speed drills like first 10 in 10 in LR or first 2 in 15 in RC and also considering doing half PT's (1 LR section, 1 RC section) and doing those until your section scores are similar to what you get when you do just 1 section. Once you've done that, build up to a full PT. Hope this helps!