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 dgonzalez412
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I am enrolled in the full length online LSAT course. I completed all of the homework for the first lesson and I attended the full lecture. I was hoping to also watch the lesson recap, but I wonder if it is the best use of my time? The videos are longer than I expected, and I am currently balancing LSAT prep with a full time job. Once I begin to take full practice tests, should I prioritize working on actual lsats as oppose to first reviewing all of the content in the lesson books and online? I am somewhat familiar with the course materials because I have worked through a good part of the bibles prior to the course, but I do not want to miss anything.


Thank you in advance for your help!
 Nikki Siclunov
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Hi dgonzalez412,

Great question! As a full-length course student, you have a plethora of resources, which is both a blessing and a curse (hopefully, more of a blessing :) Here's how I'd organize my time:

If you attend the lectures and fully understand the methodological overview in the homework, then you can safely proceed to the drills and practice sections in it. Assuming your accuracy is sufficiently high on those questions, you probably don't need to watch the videos as well. You absolutely should review the questions you miss, and also check our online explanations for them. Every question from your homework is explained online.

If you find any of the material covered in class challenging, or if you skipped class altogether, you should watch the video recap. It's pointless to do practice sections without fully understanding the conceptual approach to that specific question. At best, you'll get some of them right without knowing why (or how). At worst, you'll develop an inefficient approach to handling such questions, which would be even harder to fix.

Bottom line: always err on the side of developing solid conceptual understanding of the material, even at the expense of completing every single practice question in your homework. Once you begin taking full practice tests, you still need to do all your homework and review the content in each lesson. You also need to thoroughly review each and every test you take. When the time comes, check out the blog article I wrote awhile back about how to take a practice test (there is more to it than meets the eye):

http://blog.powerscore.com/lsat/bid/153 ... tice-Tests

It's great that you're familiar with some of the conceptual material from the bibles - this should help you get through the homework a little faster. Ultimately, you need to be the judge on how exactly to review the substantive material for each lesson. It all depends on what "clicks" and what doesn't :-)

Let me know if you have any other questions.

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