Need some LR help
Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2011 4:22 pm
Hi all! This is my first post but I've been lurking for a while.
I wanted to ask some advice from everyone at TLS about the LR section. Thanks to all the TLS forums, I've gotten through the Powerscore LG and LR bibles which were immensely helpful. Which leads me to a big THANK YOU! I took Kaplan pre-TLS which ended up with a postponed June LSAT and some shattered dreams.... only mildly joking.
I'm taking the October LSAT and I've been studying for months. I know that you first work on accuracy, and then work on timing. Since I'm a little over a month away, I wanted to start working on my timing which is atrocious. I have ranged untimed from -12 (at the beginning) to -3 on the LR but when I go timed it really slows down to -10. I can get the first 10 usually always accurate in the first 10 minutes but from there it all goes sour. In the teens area I progress to an awful 3 minutes a problem (and this is generally where I flounder) and then the end of the section I can pick speed back up and get some points back.
Any tips on how to really begin to pace myself? I've thought about setting the timer for 45 minutes, then 40, then 35. Or should I continue to focus on drills for my problem areas, and then worry about timing in another 2 weeks?
Thanks!!
I wanted to ask some advice from everyone at TLS about the LR section. Thanks to all the TLS forums, I've gotten through the Powerscore LG and LR bibles which were immensely helpful. Which leads me to a big THANK YOU! I took Kaplan pre-TLS which ended up with a postponed June LSAT and some shattered dreams.... only mildly joking.
I'm taking the October LSAT and I've been studying for months. I know that you first work on accuracy, and then work on timing. Since I'm a little over a month away, I wanted to start working on my timing which is atrocious. I have ranged untimed from -12 (at the beginning) to -3 on the LR but when I go timed it really slows down to -10. I can get the first 10 usually always accurate in the first 10 minutes but from there it all goes sour. In the teens area I progress to an awful 3 minutes a problem (and this is generally where I flounder) and then the end of the section I can pick speed back up and get some points back.
Any tips on how to really begin to pace myself? I've thought about setting the timer for 45 minutes, then 40, then 35. Or should I continue to focus on drills for my problem areas, and then worry about timing in another 2 weeks?
Thanks!!