Strategy for guessing on questions?

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Any strategy used to guess, say the last 5 questions? Eg. BBBBB, ABCDE, ACAAC? Any strategy that is statistically beneficial?

inactive

There is no strategy for guessing questions. Guessing isn't something I'd recommend to get a habit of. If you find yourself guessing, it means you don't have the material down and you should revisit.

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Thanks for the quick response. I totally understand, I'm just taking the LSAT tomorrow and figured if i got stuck in a situation of guessing for one reason or another than i be ready. Any other last tips?

Jonathan Wang

If there were a pattern, people would be using it to check their answers even if they didn't guess.

Just pick and pray. The entire point of a guess is that you're not spending time on it and just accepting the blind 20% chance. If you're spending time agonizing about what to guess, you're defeating the purpose.

Decide now what you're going to bubble (I chose C because I'm a sucker for symmetry, though it didn't end up coming into play) and just do that on the test.

Pacifico

Always pick F.

LSATKingsman

@Pacifico Always

Accounts Playable

I always pick D since my first name starts with D. Plus, in my total confirmation bias opinion, I tend to find the answers to questions 18-25 on LR to be in the C-E range. But, that's totally anecdotal, and I have other evidence of that.

Edit/Addendum: PowerScore has some stats on it that are a little interesting to read:

https://www.powerscore.com/lsat/help/guessing.cfm

http://blog.powerscore.com/lsat/bid/326362/Advanced-LSAT-Guessing-Strategy-Referring-To-Prior-Answers

pritisharma

Thanks @"Accounts Playable" liked the second link .. when I am out of time.