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- Sun Sep 14, 2014 4:11 pm
#16643
Hello,
I am writing because I need some advice on my studying from now until the December LSAT. I took the Powerscore online course starting in June in preparation for the September LSAT, but after taking practice tests and seeing that I was not improving as fast as I wanted, I decided to wait until December and try to conquer all my problem areas rather than getting a score that I would not be satisfied with. When I took my first practice test, about two months ago, I got a 150. Now, about 5 practice tests and a lot of timed sections later, I have only managed to get that up to a 155 (twice). I refuse to believe that this is the highest I could get, as it seems that I get the same types of questions wrong (must be true, flaw, weaken) on every test. What is the most frustrating is that I can usually understand where I went wrong on questions, but for some of these I honestly feel like I would have never gotten it right because I just don't think that way. It is very frustrating and annoying to me that I try so hard to study the problem types but do not actually see the correct flaw, or see how something must be true. I need to get my score up about 10 or so points, which I honestly think I can do -- if I learn how to think right. I guess I am asking, what is the best way to go about studying these frustrating types of problems? Should I just go back and do as many of these as I can from the practice and re-read everything? I am just feeling a bit down, since I have already been studying about three months and I don't think I am doing as well as I should be. I have almost three months to really hone in on this, so any advice would be appreciated! Thank you!
I am writing because I need some advice on my studying from now until the December LSAT. I took the Powerscore online course starting in June in preparation for the September LSAT, but after taking practice tests and seeing that I was not improving as fast as I wanted, I decided to wait until December and try to conquer all my problem areas rather than getting a score that I would not be satisfied with. When I took my first practice test, about two months ago, I got a 150. Now, about 5 practice tests and a lot of timed sections later, I have only managed to get that up to a 155 (twice). I refuse to believe that this is the highest I could get, as it seems that I get the same types of questions wrong (must be true, flaw, weaken) on every test. What is the most frustrating is that I can usually understand where I went wrong on questions, but for some of these I honestly feel like I would have never gotten it right because I just don't think that way. It is very frustrating and annoying to me that I try so hard to study the problem types but do not actually see the correct flaw, or see how something must be true. I need to get my score up about 10 or so points, which I honestly think I can do -- if I learn how to think right. I guess I am asking, what is the best way to go about studying these frustrating types of problems? Should I just go back and do as many of these as I can from the practice and re-read everything? I am just feeling a bit down, since I have already been studying about three months and I don't think I am doing as well as I should be. I have almost three months to really hone in on this, so any advice would be appreciated! Thank you!
