To Cambridge or not to Cambridge? Retaker needs help! Forum

[Pablo]

So I am spending this summer studying again. I am sort of low on materials however, since last summer I (quite ignorantly) drilled out of the orange and green books of LSAT tests thinking I would not be retaking and thus not be needing the orange book for full length practice tests. I did about twelve full length tests last summer as well as drilling from these two books and scored a 165 on the Oct. test. My score was continuously increasing up until the test, but I ran out of time to see how much more I could get it up (I went from a 163 to 166 about a week and a half before the actual test). So in the spirit of thinking I have more improvement in me and just need more time to get it out, I was going to spend this summer studying for the October (now late September) LSAT once again, only doing more practice tests this time.

Although I have seen that knowledgeable TLSers suggest drilling from the Cambridge packets, which seems like a super great way to study. Yet if I were to drill from the packets of questions from 1-38, that would only leave me tests 38-52 to test full length. That is about a test a week up until late September when the Fall LSAT is administered. Is Cambridge worth it? Or should I drill from my old green and orange books and use the material from tests 1-38 to do full length practice tests from so that I could do two tests a week? I've never used Cambridge before and so I don't know what will be more valuable... Cambridge drilling or more full length test taking...

Thanks for your advice!

[d cooper]

Use Cambridge so that you can drill by type. If you have some other way of accomplishing that, that's fine too.

Also, reuse the tests you took last summer. That's plenty of time to forget (and even if it wasn't, retaking tests is a useful study tactic).

[rebexness]

Although I have seen that knowledgeable TLSers suggest drilling from the Cambridge packets, which seems like a super great way to study. Yet if I were to drill from the packets of questions from 1-38, that would only leave me tests 38-52 to test full length. That is about a test a week up until late September when the Fall LSAT is administered. Is Cambridge worth it? Or should I drill from my old green and orange books and use the material from tests 1-38 to do full length practice tests from so that I could do two tests a week? I've never used Cambridge before and so I don't know what will be more valuable... Cambridge drilling or more full length test taking...

Thanks for your advice!

Use 1-38 from the Cambridge packets for drilling.
Use 39-71 for PTing starting about 3 months before your test day.
BOTH are valuable- however, the most valuable is in-depth, careful review.