DON'T GIVE UP!!! YOU CAN DO THIS!!!

[crispycrispr]

I just did PT89, per Jon & Dave's suggestion on the LR & RC sections to practice, and unbelievably, got a 172, breaking the 170s my first time ever from doing non-Blind-reviewed PT!!??????? (Regrettably, I missed a stupid MC question from the top 10, dunno why I was trippin but) Y'all, my biggest takeaway is to NOT GIVE UP!!!

Not even on RC. My RC from that section was -1, and I can totally see why the tricky answers are tricky, but I kept reminding myself of my past mistakes and trends on RC. You can do this! Even less than 2 weeks before the actual exam, you CAN break your personal best! Don't! Give! Up! I can't tell you how many times I got really frustrated from studying and wanted to scream at LSAT writers. But the important thing is to understand your mistakes in extreme detail. Read explanations or watch explanation videos, compare your thought process to those, and learn from them. This takes a lot of time. I went over each question I got wrong on LR for at least an hour on average. Right after you blind review or show the correct answers, you might get frustrated and not want to touch the LSAT, and that's okay. But come back to it! Sit with it and think about it, think about what you thought when you chose a particular answer choice. If that answer choice is correct, ***reinforce that thought process***. The ways right and wrong answers are constructed are truly repetitive (right answers especially on causal reasoning questions). If you abstract the right answers on causal questions, especially, you'll see they're incredibly similar. You just kind of need to "undress" the stimulus, so to speak. I've found that the newer PTs have LR questions that are much less obvious than older ones, and are more like RC questions. You need to understand what they're saying and what the inferences are first.

study on! we're so close to the end!!!

much love,
crispycrispr

[kupwarriors9]

How do you recommend to review and improve incorrect acs and mistakes from RC? I find I never know how to 'fix' these mistakes and not redo them in the future!!! DO YOU HAVE ANY TIPS <3333333

I just did PT89, per Jon & Dave's suggestion on the LR & RC sections to practice, and unbelievably, got a 172, breaking the 170s my first time ever from doing non-Blind-reviewed PT!!??????? (Regrettably, I missed a stupid MC question from the top 10, dunno why I was trippin but) Y'all, my biggest takeaway is to NOT GIVE UP!!!

Not even on RC. My RC from that section was -1, and I can totally see why the tricky answers are tricky, but I kept reminding myself of my past mistakes and trends on RC. You can do this! Even less than 2 weeks before the actual exam, you CAN break your personal best! Don't! Give! Up! I can't tell you how many times I got really frustrated from studying and wanted to scream at LSAT writers. But the important thing is to understand your mistakes in extreme detail. Read explanations or watch explanation videos, compare your thought process to those, and learn from them. This takes a lot of time. I went over each question I got wrong on LR for at least an hour on average. Right after you blind review or show the correct answers, you might get frustrated and not want to touch the LSAT, and that's okay. But come back to it! Sit with it and think about it, think about what you thought when you chose a particular answer choice. If that answer choice is correct, ***reinforce that thought process***. The ways right and wrong answers are constructed are truly repetitive (right answers especially on causal reasoning questions). If you abstract the right answers on causal questions, especially, you'll see they're incredibly similar. You just kind of need to "undress" the stimulus, so to speak. I've found that the newer PTs have LR questions that are much less obvious than older ones, and are more like RC questions. You need to understand what they're saying and what the inferences are first.

study on! we're so close to the end!!!

much love,
crispycrispr

[crispycrispr]

How do you recommend to review and improve incorrect acs and mistakes from RC? I find I never know how to 'fix' these mistakes and not redo them in the future!!! DO YOU HAVE ANY TIPS <3333333

I just did PT89, per Jon & Dave's suggestion on the LR & RC sections to practice, and unbelievably, got a 172, breaking the 170s my first time ever from doing non-Blind-reviewed PT!!??????? (Regrettably, I missed a stupid MC question from the top 10, dunno why I was trippin but) Y'all, my biggest takeaway is to NOT GIVE UP!!!

Not even on RC. My RC from that section was -1, and I can totally see why the tricky answers are tricky, but I kept reminding myself of my past mistakes and trends on RC. You can do this! Even less than 2 weeks before the actual exam, you CAN break your personal best! Don't! Give! Up! I can't tell you how many times I got really frustrated from studying and wanted to scream at LSAT writers. But the important thing is to understand your mistakes in extreme detail. Read explanations or watch explanation videos, compare your thought process to those, and learn from them. This takes a lot of time. I went over each question I got wrong on LR for at least an hour on average. Right after you blind review or show the correct answers, you might get frustrated and not want to touch the LSAT, and that's okay. But come back to it! Sit with it and think about it, think about what you thought when you chose a particular answer choice. If that answer choice is correct, ***reinforce that thought process***. The ways right and wrong answers are constructed are truly repetitive (right answers especially on causal reasoning questions). If you abstract the right answers on causal questions, especially, you'll see they're incredibly similar. You just kind of need to "undress" the stimulus, so to speak. I've found that the newer PTs have LR questions that are much less obvious than older ones, and are more like RC questions. You need to understand what they're saying and what the inferences are first.

study on! we're so close to the end!!!

much love,
crispycrispr

The way I reviewed my missed RC questions, like in LR, is to re-trace my original thought processes. Often in RC, when I make mistakes or pick an attractive trap answer choice, it's either because I didn't read the answer choice carefully enough, misread the question stem, or there's some misunderstanding on my part on the passage when I first read it. This latter one is often because the test writers have picked a very terribly written (obscure) passage where the wordings are inefficient or terribly confusing. They do this quite often, and the ways in which certain sentences are confusing also very often recur, like they'll give a double negative like "not displeasing" or something along those lines. So I'll note them and note why I found certain parts confusing.

For the more recent RCs, they've been more like LR questions in that you really need to read actively and think about the logical implications of what the author said. And also, some questions can be tricky in that the question stem asks you about what's accurate about the author's tone, but not a complete description of the author's tone, and I'll instinctively want to look for both accurate and complete. This I think is the LSAT writers trying to trick you because they know you're used to LG question stems like this (accurate & complete lists...). I've also noticed that some of my mistakes come from not actively reading throughout the entire passage. So, basically, just note where your original thinking/understanding of the passage went wrong, note how lots of wrong answer choices exploit misunderstandings/misreadings, and when you see them next time again, you'll (hopefully) recognize it!