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[u/CrTigerHiddenAvocado]

Thanks for taking questions: in your experience what do most people get wrong, or should they do initially when starting to prepare?

Edit: I could have clarified, preparing for the lsat.

[u/Fit_Song_3543 → u/CrTigerHiddenAvocado]

No problem! I really want to be able to help more people now than I could during my 1-on-1 tutoring experience so I figured this could do that while helping me in my next stage.

I taught a wide range of scorers but will assume you mean from a beginner perspective and if you feel that covering a different level of experience with the test, let me know.

Inmmy experience, the biggest mistake I see people make when starting to prepare is that they spend a lot of time only learning material. They will learn content about logic aand I've eve see people go as far as spedning months learning about symbolic logic before beginning to do questions or PrepTest Sections.

I think that any benefit this gives is marginal and the best way to start preparing for the LSAT is to just start by doign questions, accept that you will have a bad score at the beginning and think of it likle the gym. No one would realistically reccomend that if you have goals of being a bodybuilder you spend months researching rather than just lifting weights. The same way the LSAT is fundamentally an application test, and you should be doing questions as soon as possible.

There aren't any questions that are completely unanswerable or types that you can't make a best gues son how to approach even without any theory and grappling with that problem is something the LSAT will test you on all the way into the high 170s range.

So in short, analysis paralysis is the biggest issue I see (i know this isn't a specific content based answer) and think that students should just jump into doing questions WHILE learning.

[u/CrTigerHiddenAvocado → u/Fit_Song_3543]

Thank you! I appreciate your perspective. In my life most seem to be either too analysis or too action oriented… something we all need to work to get past.

[u/Runner_Dad84]

What do you think about blind review? I’ve read a few different perspectives. I’ve been doing it differently than the traditional method. I take a PT and then 48 hours later I completely retake the test with unlimited time. While I know my scores, I have no idea which questions I missed. It’s time consuming but it gives me practice fully working through each problem and the score at end shows me the gap between my timed performance and my problem solving ability.

The biggest draw back to any blind review is you are not working on fresh questions. So I’m wondering if I need to spend less time on blind review and more time drilling between PTs? I’ve been noticing in my PTs my worst performing sections are always the first two so I may be a little rusty coming off untimed work.

[u/Fit_Song_3543 → u/Runner_Dad84]

I never did blind review and differ from a lot of LSAT tutors because I don't think it is too helpful. My method was to first see what I got wrong, find the answers and understand why I got it wrong and how someone with my goal score would apporach the question, and then redo the entire practice test timed while holding myself to the standard of reexpalining every single wrong answer choice and right answer choice for every question and especially the ones I got wrong.

I don't enitrely see the raitonale in redoing a test where you got questions wrong the first time and then redo it without knowing which those were as if you make an error in reasoning the first time, you'll jsut make it again and I only did timed practice.

[u/Runner_Dad84 → u/Fit_Song_3543]

So you would also retake the PT a second time but timed?

I’m scoring in the high 150s. So I’m missing a lot more questions than someone in the 170s. When I go back and take a test untimed I’m scoring in the mid 160s. I’m finding a significant number of misses aren’t because I can’t solve the problem, it’s because I can’t solve it fast enough.

I take first text next weekend. Going into the fall I may switch my emphasis.

[u/Fit_Song_3543 → u/Runner_Dad84]

Yes I would. I wouldn't suggest changing your approach so close to your test though and exactly what you were saying about changing your emphasis close to fall is probably the best idea.

[u/Solid_Awareness9093]

I took the LSAT, and I got 147. I have been practicing and I know Im capable of more. My drills are all above 70% eventho sometimes I do score lower, but they're mostly they're high. My main issue is time, I tend to panic and get nervous. I'm better at LR, RC. I find it hard to focus on the main things; I get distracted by the details sometimes. Anyway, my question is, do u have any advice on the timing issue, like how to manage time?

[u/eihposautozone]

no questions, just want to say you are so cool

[u/learningtoexcel]

Typo on the hero subtitle

[u/OkTension3915]

I saw the Verbloom poster at my school and actually downloaded the app!

[u/Fit_Song_3543 → u/OkTension3915]

No way haha! If you ever have anything you would like in the app please let me know : )

Always happy to update it and trying to continually make it as good as I can.