Prephrasing problems

[kfactor901@gmail.com]

Hello, I seem to be missing a lot of questions that I could have gotten right with prephrasing but I neglect prephrasing due to time. Are there any good key things to think about to prephrase efficiently or is practice the best thing for me to do for the test coming up.

[Nikki Siclunov]

Hi kfactor901@gmail.com,

Thanks for the question!

Prephrasing is indeed absolutely essential to optimal performance on the test, and many students neglect to do it for the same exact reason you do: time! Paradoxically, it is the failure to prephrase consistently that often leads to a time crunch. How often have you approached the answer choices without a clear understanding of what it is you're looking for, only to get "stuck" between two answer choices that you read and re-read 10 times? That's precisely why prephrasing ultimately saves you time! Just like inferences in Logic Games, it requires a small investment of time in the beginning, but you're bound to recoup it down the road. The simple, brilliant idea behind it, is this: by formulating a suitably general prephrase, you are much less likely to consider any incorrect answer choice attractive—even those that are meant to be attractive!

Check out these Blog posts on this subject:

http://blog.powerscore.com/lsat/lsat-an ... -prephrase
http://blog.powerscore.com/lsat/bid/153 ... ing-part-i
http://blog.powerscore.com/lsat/bid/153 ... ng-part-ii
http://blog.powerscore.com/lsat/bid/153 ... -Questions

Also remember: prephrasing is just as valuable on the LR section as it is on the RC section!

Good luck!!