Help in Logical Reasoning for September! Forum

[ilikebaseball]

Hey guys. I'm scoring pretty well in the other two sections (almost perfect in the games) but my LR sections bring my score WAY down. I just don't understand it for some reason! I just ordered the bible, but for anyone else who struggled at first with it like me, and now get through it with ease, how did you figure it out? I think so hard about the answer choices (probably what kills me) and read everything again and again but I can hardly ever narrow it down to one answer. I'm always stuck between two and I end up wasting 30 more seconds just making a half hearted decision. I literally miss like 12/50 of those questions. If I could cut that in half, I would be gold. I'd get above a 170 easy. Can anyone help with strategies, thought processes, etc?

[fra]

The LR Bible will probably help quite a bit.
I found 7 sages Blind Review method http://7sage.com/the-blind-review-how-t ... at-part-1/ to be very helpful on every section, but especially on RC and LR.
Remember that your goal isn't to do well on preptests, your goal is to use each preptest as a learning activity. Answers that you get correct on preptest, while they are self esteem builders, are not as helpful to you as the questions that you miss or aren't sure of. Use each answer that you are unsure of (even if you guess it correctly!) as a learning opportunity to make you less likely to miss a similar question on the actual exam.

I've gotten to the point of missing -1 max on each LR section using this method:
-Go through LR Bible (got me down to max -3 per section, but I was still missing the very difficult questions)
-Slightly changing my method of answering questions. I cross out every incorrect answer, and if I am torn between two instead of guessing the one that I like best and not feeling totally sure (as I would have done before) I now assume that I have missed some detail in the question - so I reread everything with the two possible answers in mind. This usually allows me to pick the correct one. This requires so much will power! (got me down to -2 through -1 per section)
-Use the Blind Review study method (now consistently -0 to -1 because I don't move on until I understand everything and feel confident that I won't make the same error again or that I will be completely certain about the correct answer if I see a similar problem in the future.)

[fra]

Also, any questions that you just don't get you should just google and read the explanation until it makes sense to you and you understand LSAC's logic. On some questions it's really just about getting in LSAC's head and understanding the assumptions that they make.

[ilikebaseball]

Were you probably struggling at the same rate as I was before you read the bible?

[fra]

Were you probably struggling at the same rate as I was before you read the bible?

I had -9 (total over both sections of LR) on my first diagnostic.
I took a PT right after I finished the LR Bible and got -4 (total over both sections).

So we were at approximately the same place starting out.

[ilikebaseball]

Wow so the LR bible is really effective! This is a huge relief, because I sorta thought that the sentiment that "LR is pretty much natural and its hard to get better at it" clearly is not true with all cases

[fra]

Yeah, LR was by far my worst section and the Bible helped a ton. I suggest thinking about RC as you study for LR, there seems to be a lot of overlap. After the LR Bible both my LR and RC scores improved because I was using the same approach for each.