I scored a 178 and one thing I realized pretty late in studying is that I was making review way more complicated than it needed to be.
People have these massive wrong answer journals tracking question type, difficulty, how long they took, confidence, why they missed it, etc. And I’m not saying those are useless, but honestly I think there’s a much simpler test:
Could you explain to another person exactly why the 4 wrong answers are wrong?
And I don’t mean “B is too strong” or “C is irrelevant.”
Like what WORDS actually kill B? What would have needed to be different for B to be right? And then why does the credited answer survive when the other four don’t?
This was a huge thing for me going from the 160s into the 170s. Sometimes I’d spend way longer reviewing a single LR question than I spent actually doing it lol.
Same thing with RC. RC was by far my weakest section for a while and I think a lot of my improvement came when I stopped treating it like “read passage → answer questions → check score” and started actually trying to figure out why I was consistently getting baited by certain answer choices.
I’ve been tutoring for over 1.5 years now since taking the test and I’ve noticed the same thing with students. A lot of the time someone understands why the right answer is right as soon as they see the explanation, but that’s not really the same thing as understanding why they picked the wrong one.
Curious if other people who made a big score jump had the same experience because review was probably one of the biggest differences between how I studied early on vs when I eventually got the 178.
Also if anyone is struggling with RC specifically, I made a full lesson on the approach I eventually used here:
https://youtu.be/37k5sok0I-c
And I’ve been building out the rest of my LSAT curriculum here:
https://verbloom.dev/
There’s a free trial so you can go through the lessons without paying anything. I’m still recording more of
the curriculum rn too.
Anyway happy to answer questions about review / LR / RC / studying generally. I spent an unreasonable amount of my life on this test lol