- Fri Nov 25, 2016 8:55 pm
#30902
Hi, 15Veries,
On the contrary, "more" is not necessarily "better" to prepare for the LSAT. In fact, doing more without understanding the concepts tested on the LSAT will lead mostly to burnout and frustration. Instead, I always counsel students to start by establishing a rock solid grasp of the fundamentals. Further, I encourage students to spend time reviewing work they've done adequate to discern patterns both in the questions and their performance. From a critical, introspective, and diagnostic analysis of this work, students should try to derive principles and plans to enhance what's working for them and make changes necessary to improve. It is essential that every student engage with the material fully. It is far more valuable for students to spend the time necessary to figure out the answers on their own than to have the answers explained to them.
In fact, given any three (or so) LSAT tests, if I were to take the time necessary to take these tests apart to note all the principles and concepts tested on them, and to learn everything I could from them, I would have learned everything I would need to know to do very well on the LSAT. In your preparation, I encourage you to spend enough time on your own to arrive at a good understanding of the work you do.
With respect to your question about whether the content on the tests is "cyclical," the answer is yes and no. The LSAT reintroduces certain kinds of scenarios, games, or passages from previous tests but also innovates to make sure that the test is a good measure of whether students have the skills necessary to deal with novel situations. Work on developing your skills first. Then apply these skills to questions to test your understanding.
