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 skkhan19
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Hi,

I'm preparing for the January 2020 LSAT. I took my first cold diagnostic test in July, and scored a 146. I'm twenty years old, a senior in college, and I'm currently working on my law school applications. With less than a week until my LSAT, I'm stuck in the low 160s. My highest score ever was a 163, on a paper practice test two months ago. Since I enrolled in the On Demand course and started taking digital practice tests, my highest score has been a 162, which was a couple of days ago.

I have roughly an 80% accuracy in each logical reasoning section, and roughly 70% accuracy in both Logic Games and Reading Comprehension. In terms of the digital test, timing is a huge issue for me, especially in Reading Comprehension. I find that I have to guess on most of the answers for the fourth passage, as I always run short on time. I didn't have these timing difficulties on the paper tests, as I was always able to annotate/diagram physically on the passages.

In regards to my guesses, usually, if I'm guessing on a question lower than #20, I guess D. If I'm guessing on a question that is #20 or higher, I guess E. I guess this way in each section that I run out of time in. I'm wondering if you might have any suggestions as to how I could improve my guessing strategy, given that I am less than a week away from my test. I think that I should work on improving my timing in LG and RC more than I should work on LR, but I'd love to hear your thoughts.

Thanks,
Shah
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 Dave Killoran
PowerScore Staff
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Hey Shah,

Thanks for the message! You ask a good question, and one that can be shaped a bit more finely than what you are doing now. When you get a chance, check out the second table here: https://www.powerscore.com/lsat/help/guessing.cfm

That table focuses on the last 5 (the first table is ALL), and shows how they have distributed answers over time at the end of each section. Currently we have:

  • Last 5

    LR: E
    RC: B
    LG: A
Elsewhere, it's:

  • All

    LR: D
    RC: D
    LG: B
That's through November 2019, so if someone is reading this later, check the link since we update it after each released LSAT :)

Thanks!
 skkhan19
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Thank you so much!

Best,
Shah

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