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question to all 170+ers
Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2013 11:29 pm
by itachiuchiha
estimate the TOTAL # of hours you put into studying for the LSAT including retakes
Re: question to all 170+ers
Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2013 11:32 pm
by noobishned
If I had to estimate, I would put it at around 350 hours.
Re: question to all 170+ers
Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2013 11:33 pm
by albanach
noobishned wrote:If I had to estimate, I would put it at around 350 hours.
Probably about this. Maybe a little more.
Re: question to all 170+ers
Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2013 11:42 pm
by bernaldiaz
noobishned wrote:If I had to estimate, I would put it at around 350 hours.
Yeah that seems about right. Probably between 300-500.
Re: question to all 170+ers
Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2013 11:49 pm
by FlowBro
I took it a total of 3 times.
Summer 2011-Testmasters Course + studying at home (150hrs)
Summer 2012- Self Study 25hr/wk for 8 weeks (200hr)
Winter 2012-Restudy for December administration (25hrs)
I would roughly guess 375 hours...HOWEVER, this DOES NOT include lurking time on TLS!
Re: question to all 170+ers
Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2013 1:21 am
by Micdiddy
FlowBro wrote:
I would roughly guess 375 hours...HOWEVER, this DOES NOT include lurking time on TLS!
If we included TLS as prep, it would 1,000,000 hours.
But yeah the 300 range seems about right.
TLS was awesome motivation, but does not count as prep.
Re: question to all 170+ers
Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2013 3:53 am
by eyfl
Around 150
Re: question to all 170+ers
Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2013 11:23 am
by LSAT Hacks (Graeme)
80-120?
I'm a bit of an outlier though. I didn't know about TLS, Powerscore, any of that when I started. This was 2007. I've always been pretty good with tests.
I got a lot better at the LSAT once I took a job with testmasters. The total amount of time it took for me to become really confident, and consistently 175+ would have been about 500 hours.
Re: question to all 170+ers
Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2013 1:16 pm
by jselson
Re: question to all 170+ers
Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2013 1:24 pm
by uvabro
around 500. multitasked though.
Re: question to all 170+ers
Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2013 1:31 pm
by cynthiad
about 60?
Re: question to all 170+ers
Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2013 7:53 pm
by CristopherG
I started at 162 in October. My tests have been concentrated in the 172-174 region over the last 10ish tests I took. I've scored a single 180. I'd estimate I've put in between 50-60 hours so far, exclusively spent doing practice tests or sections.
Granted, that's not an official score yet. I'm hoping for a 175+ on test day.
Re: question to all 170+ers
Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2013 8:30 pm
by 03152016
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Re: question to all 170+ers
Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2013 2:06 pm
by racrfish
60-80? I studied casually for two months, and took practice tests for one month.
Re: question to all 170+ers
Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2013 2:07 pm
by IAFG
FlowBro wrote:I took it a total of 3 times.
Summer 2011-Testmasters Course + studying at home (150hrs)
Summer 2012- Self Study 25hr/wk for 8 weeks (200hr)
Winter 2012-Restudy for December administration (25hrs)
I would roughly guess 375 hours...HOWEVER, this DOES NOT include lurking time on TLS!
pretty much exactly this.
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Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2013 2:24 pm
by 06162014123
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Re: question to all 170+ers
Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2013 4:13 pm
by mephistopheles
~45/50 ish?
Re: question to all 170+ers
Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2013 4:25 pm
by vzapana
100 to 125?
Re: question to all 170+ers
Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2013 4:38 pm
by elterrible78
I started at a 166, and I would say I spent probably a total of 250-300 hours. I would say that after roughly 100-150 hours, I was consistently scoring 174+, but I just continued prepping to decrease the chances that, on test day, my score would drop significantly.
Re: question to all 170+ers
Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2013 11:39 pm
by bluepenguin
About 30 the year of the test (2009). Another 30 or so a year before.
Apparently I'm gonna need another 250 if I do the June test.
Re: question to all 170+ers
Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2013 11:59 pm
by guinness1547
jselson wrote:eyfl wrote:Around 150
+1
Re: question to all 170+ers
Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2013 12:13 am
by dingbat
I'm gonna ballpark that I'm under 100, but not far under (my first PT was in the high 160s)
Re: question to all 170+ers
Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2013 8:38 pm
by RhymesLikeDimes
Planning on 20hrs/wk. + 2 PTs a week from 1/1 to 6/9. So probably going to be ~400.
Re: question to all 170+ers
Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2013 10:22 pm
by mindarmed
it's really dependent, some people naturally grasp the material. for example, i spent almost no time doing LG because the problems are elementary version of things i've done in engineering. consequently, i had to study RC a shitton because i have the shortest attention span ever. LR is really just making sure you see the finite amount of ways problems will present themselves, then identifying those problems. i'd say between PTs, and LR drilling i probably spent about 200-300 hours.
Re: question to all 170+ers
Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2013 4:40 am
by epiphinous7
went from 160 to averaging PTs 174-176 (tests in Feb)
300+ hours PTing
3 prep books