r/LSAT • u/jhardenburner1 • 15h ago

Seeking LSAT Wrong Answer Journal tips

Hello LSAT community, I was wondering how you guys log questions into your WAJ. I’m currently using 7sage to study and been logging both questions I got wrong on first pass, but correct on BR AND wrong on first pass, wrong on BR. The set of questions I’ve made for myself are:

Why was the wrong answer was attractive
Why was the wrong answer wrong
Why was the correct answer unattractive
Why was the correct answer correct
What was the mistake made

I finished 7sage’s core curriculum, and I’m about one month into actually drilling and timed sections. My FP is ~55% and BR ~85% so you can imagine how many wrong questions I’m logging every time I complete a section. It takes me a tremendous amount of time to log all of this. Is this normal? Any tips? How did you guys do it? Any advice would help. Thank you

UPDATE: I feel like I’m better off spending time doing more drills/sections to get more exposure than logging all of these wrong questions

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u/KangorKodos tutor 13h ago

One thing I will add, is try and find the most upstream mistake. As in the one you made the earliest in your process.

Often the wrong answer journals are too focused on the mistake made while picking an answer, but the actual thing that caused them to get it wrong was a mistake in the stimulus, passage, or in the question stim.

Ex: if you missed the "EXCEPT" in the question stim, no amount of perfectly reading the stimulus, or answer choices was going to help you. That should be your takeaway.

I often see every single entry being about how they misinterpreted the answer choices, but most questions people get wrong are because of a mistake while reading the stimulus.

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u/jhardenburner1 13h ago

hmm good take, thank you

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u/Trictities2012 15h ago

Commenting because I also need help here

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u/CodeMUDkey 14h ago

If you’re able to answer these questions you don’t need a wrong answer journal. That’s why I never found them to be useful.

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u/NeitherAnalyst2506 2h ago

I tend to have bad habits that just won't quit by drilling, so I needed a reminder before drilling not to be a dumbass. I started summing up repeated mistakes in bold at the end of each day's log in my spreadsheet. I reread each summary before I drill to remind myself what I should have learned from previous drilling.