incorporate drilling and PTs? thoughts on this process Forum

[cavalier2015]

i know drilling is super important so what i am doing currently till july 19th is drilling all the cambridge packets i have. i am not doing each and every packet to its completion, but enough for me to feel comfortable with it(meaning: knowing what answers are right and what answers are wrong for each question stem). for example, i have drilled all the questions for Sufficient Assumptions and about 120 of the 284 for Flaw. for LG, i would have done all the games. and for RC, i would have done all the passages.

my hope is that by starting july19th for PTs, I can fit in about 30 PTs before test day (PTs 40-71). I would take a PT every other day. So for example on Saturday morning I have taken a PT timed. Then using the blind review method, I will go back to the questions I wasn't 100% sure on or left blank and answer them. Then saturday evening: i would then use the free 7sage LSAT tool to enter my answers for the normal and blind review and see take note of the question types I missed. then i would spend all of sunday going back to the specific cambridge packet and further drilling that type. monday: new PT. tuesday: review monday PT.

i hope by doing this, I would constantly be eliminating my weakness.

is this a viable strategy? are 30PTs enough? should i spend more time drilling packets to completion?

[malleus discentium]

Drilling is way more important than PTs. PTs are just to get timing and pacing down, drilling is where you actually learn how to do the LSAT. A PT every other day is a bad plan: you'll get burned out. More drilling fewer PTs.

[cavalier2015]

i've always sucked at timing; that's one of the reasons I wanted to get more PTs under my belt. but thank you for that thought, i hadn't considered the burn out.

Is my idea of not finishing to completion all the packets a bad idea as well?

[ultraman]

We have a similar schedule. I finished the first round of drilling LG and just started drilling LR. I have finished Sufficient, Necessary and Flaws. I plan to take PTs around July 10th. I would not take a PT every other day. You need more time to review mistakes. I would suggest take 2 PTs every week and do some drills in between.

[malleus discentium]

You're absolutely right to want to do PTs to get timing down. You just don't need to worry about it just yet. You can't practice timing if you still don't have a tight grasp of the material itself. I wouldn't plan to not finish the packets, but not finishing them once you are where you need to be isn't a problem necessarily.