Studying until the June LSAT

[Dave Killoran]

We get direct questions occasionally, and as is our custom, we post the answers in the Forum for everyone to see:

There's just one more thing I would really appreciate your advice on. Until my June 14 test, I am completely free: every single day, I have no plans, no obligations; I can, theoretically, devote all of my time to studying.

How should I use this time wisely? Should I just be drilling sections over and over? Full PTS every couple of days? I want to maximize my time but I know that quality matters way more than quality! I'm just not sure how to best study in these remaining 4 weeks. As I said, I'm pretty solid on LR, it's just LG and RC that could use improvement. Thank you so much!!

An instructor will answer this question later. Thanks!

[Paul Marsh]

Thanks Dave.

To the sender - hi! Good question; it's important to have a good study plan and use your time wisely.

How to best spend your time very much depends on where you're at in your studying. Have you read through all the PowerScore Bibles or LSAT Course Books and done most of the practice problems in them? Are you consistently approaching all question types in the manner that the Bibles recommend? If not, I'm a big believer that a) learning the correct approach to all of these question types (by working through the Bibles) and b) practicing untimed problems until you're comfortable automatically applying those approaches without even having to think about, are the best use of your time. If this is where you're at, I would spend 4 days a week working through everything in the Bibles, 1 day a week doing a practice test, 1 day a week reviewing the test, and 1 day a week relaxing.

If you're already at the point where you can apply the recommended approach to each question type automatically, then taking a couple timed practice tests a week is the move. In that case, my schedule would look like - Monday: practice test, Tuesday: review practice test (go through all problems you got wrong or that you got right but struggled with), Wednesday: look for patterns in the questions that gave you trouble (are they all a certain question type, or do they contain a specific type of Flaw, etc.) and go back and consult the Bibles (or post here or talk with a PowerScore tutor) to see what you can be doing differently, Thursday through Saturday: repeat the exact same thing, Sunday: take a day off.

No study schedule is perfect and you need to do what works for your schedule (and stress level), but what I wrote above is a good starting point. Hope that helps! Good luck.