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EDIT: decided this comment was too detailed. Sorry!
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@jordan.marty99 said: I thought I should also mention I have the privilege of dedicating most to all of my time to studying.) My suggestion: do what I did. Between February and June I did every preptest ever. Brought my score up hugely. It did cau…
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I found my brain revived after frying it between February and June when I took a full month off. I waited to keep studying until I got my score back. I came back with a vengeance -- got 179 on my first preptest, which I had only managed once prior t…
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@DaveH162 @mimimimi Preptest 7 game 2. Similar setup but far fewer and also similar rules. Any games that are heavily sequencing but also sort of grouping are similar. But this game was very open with the rules and, as discussed above, while th…
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Same thing happened to me in June. Had been around 176 or so, flopped on LG, scored 170. Eventually I decided that was because I was utterly burned out from all the studying I did up to June. My first practice test a month out from June was a 179. I…
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I wouldn't buy an LSAT-specific watch. I got a cheap analog Casio. $10. Takes less than a second to reset to X:25 between sections. When the big hand is vertical, time's up. I can also time the break! I reset to X:45.
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That's what I did. Retake. For me I found that it did not affect LR scores at all (and I got a lot of the same questions wrong!), it seemed to help somewhat for RC (the passages were easier and faster to read) and helped a lot for some LG, but none …
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I also found this game super difficult, even though I did split. I ended up testing every answer choice (almost) on every question. Even so, I don't think I spent more than 15 minutes on this game. And fortunately, the other games were just super du…
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It's burnout. Really. I had a similar experience. I got my best score up to that point on the February test, but didn't want to go to law school at sticker. So between February and June I did literally every preptest. And my score on the real test w…
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Who is David and how is he them man? Is he a consultant?
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I was just discussing this with someone else in another thread. For me personally, I find that RC gets much easier on a retake, while LG get a little bit easier, but I think LR is just as hard, and typically I make exactly the same mistakes on a re…
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@Pacifico: definitely true. I don't. The questions are sort of new, but the mental process of the passage itself, that's what I'm missing the second time.
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@lpadr009: I find it the least repeatable mostly because I have a good memory for the content of the passages. So when I take it a second time I don't find that I feel any "mental resistance" when I read the passage. I already know the main point, …
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@"Dillon A. Wright" : Alas, I took preptest 75 in person in June, haha.
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@"Alan Cheuk": Thanks!!
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@nicole.hopkins Thanks! I agree with the toggle idea. I'm not trying to overthink this, or complain for that matter. I'm just leaving this comment as constructive feedback. @Pacifico I have absolutely no idea what that means, but it sounds like…
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First test after not much study: 165 Second test, after massive amount of study: 170 (had been pt'ing at 178) Third test, October 2015: 180!!!!!
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One more here. I found the whole test to be a breeze except for the logic games, which were brutal. I normally do perfect in that section. Today I guessed on at least 5 questions (educated because I had a good sense of what the premise/point of game…
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My rule (typically get 0-2 wrong per section) is that I split the board if I have a basic rule that makes no more than 2-4 more boards, based on how complex each individual board is. Also, I split with even more than that if I can tell that each boa…
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@shermankrs: Nope. Completely silent.
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I'd make sure that even if you are working through the Core right now, you still PT on occasion. Reviewing those tests can give you a really good idea of what concepts are weak. You might find that you would benefit from spending more on the LR, for…
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@Jengibre: My 4-6 questions can vary. I normally get 1 curvebreaker wrong in one of the LR sections, 2 or 3 questions wrong in the RC, and then the remainder in the LG. I rarely (sigh) get a perfect LG section, so that's what makes the number vary b…
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@Jengibre I disagree with you a little bit. I seem to get exactly the same number of questions wrong on just about every test, which means that my score is widely determined by the scale on the test. For example, PT 62 does have a very generous sc…
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I find it depends on my level. When I was just ok at the test, I found the more recent ones harder, because the mechanics are harder. Now that I am good at the test, I have mastered the mechanical stuff, so I find the earlier ones harder, as they ar…
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I purchased this and used it in February. Will use it again in June. $10. Takes 2 seconds to reset the minute hand to X:25. When the minute hand is vertical, time's up. In February I reset while instructions were being read for next section. http:/…
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@lschoolgo Hmm, I may have had my guesses on the timing a little bit wrong here. But I think the main idea of my strategy stands. i have a somewhat similar approach to doing the initial read of the passage fast, but I thought, in your first pos…
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Sounds like a good plan. I would just make the following recommendations: 1) Please do go near the tests. You can learn a lot just by taking them, and I personally think that coming up with strategies first is counterproductive, as a lot of them ju…
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I typically end up with something like 10 minutes left on LR. Typically I have maybe 5 minutes left on RC and recently I seem to have gotten worse at LG and am using every second. My score seesaws wildly between 171 and 177, based almost entirely o…
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@lschoolgo Can you post which PTs' RC are you referring to for the scores? I've been working my way through the early tests. So far I've done 1-36. I also simultaneously did 40-54 and 61+62. The later ones I normally get maybe one more question wr…
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You know, I have a completely opposite strategy from @brna0714 I typically get -0 to -2 in reading comp. I started around -8 to -10, so I'm feeling pretty good. The first thing that dramatically improved my RC was when I stopped highlighting and …