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I can go anywhere from -7 to -13 on a section. Is my best bet to drill question types until my head falls off?

Well you should first try to figure out what type of questions you are missing. No sense drilling all LR types if you're struggling only with a few different types of questions. Drilling without reviewing and understanding where you make your mistakes won't help you improve that much.

You should pick up the Powerscore Logical Reasoning Bible which will help you identify question types and help you get a better fundamental understanding of the questions. I'd start by taking a few of your recent LR sections and counting out the questions you got wrong by type (according to LRB) so you can see where your problem areas are.

Drilling will help you solidify your understanding and manuevure over trick answers and funky wording, it won't help as much with giving you a basic understanding of the section as the LRB will.

I went over the bible before i started my testmasters course in july. I should probably go over the bible again right?

If you're not missing only a few kinds of questions, you might just be having trouble really understanding the argument. Manhattan LR has all that "argument core" stuff which might be useful for you if that's the case.

alexK_ wrote:If you're not missing only a few kinds of questions, you might just be having trouble really understanding the argument. Manhattan LR has all that "argument core" stuff which might be useful for you if that's the case.

As in distinguishing conclusions and premises? For the most part i'm pretty solid with that. And a bunch of times I narrow it down to two choices and pick the wrong one.

LionelHutzJD wrote:

alexK_ wrote:If you're not missing only a few kinds of questions, you might just be having trouble really understanding the argument. Manhattan LR has all that "argument core" stuff which might be useful for you if that's the case.

As in distinguishing conclusions and premises? For the most part i'm pretty solid with that. And a bunch of times I narrow it down to two choices and pick the wrong one.

As in how the two relate to each other.

I didn't read the LRB but in every solution in Manhattan there's an explanation of how each answer choice was eliminated. That might be helpful.

LionelHutzJD wrote:

alexK_ wrote:If you're not missing only a few kinds of questions, you might just be having trouble really understanding the argument. Manhattan LR has all that "argument core" stuff which might be useful for you if that's the case.

As in distinguishing conclusions and premises? For the most part i'm pretty solid with that. And a bunch of times I narrow it down to two choices and pick the wrong one.

Then start picking the one that looks wrong to you lol

LionelHutzJD wrote:I went over the bible before i started my testmasters course in july. I should probably go over the bible again right?

I would go over the Bible again, I bought the Bibles after I took Testmasters and found that I just missed things the first time. Also, don't drill just drill, when i took Testmasters i was drilling pretty much so I could tell myself that I answered the questions and did the work so that must be good enough...it wasn't. Take your time with them and do them in small groups and understand why you got them right and why you got them wrong (sounds obvious but I didn't figure this out until 2 days before the June test).