Did you improve on LR after studying? Forum

[KA631LGH]

After taking my cold diagnostic, I found out that I really need to work on the LR section (and RC section as well). I missed about half of the questions in each of the 2 LR sections and half on the RC section. I'm curious as to how others have studied for these sections. Fwiw, I bought the powerscore bibles.

Can anyone speak on how they studied for these sections?
How much did you improve from your cold diagnostic LR / RC sections?
If you used the bibles, did they help you understand the material and improve your score?

[scandk]

I think plenty of people on TLS tend to find that they improve on LR after studying, myself included. I think I went something like -6 and -8 for a combined -14 LR on my diagnostic. On my PTs leading up to the June test, I was getting between 0-3 LR wrong, with the occasional 4 or 5. To develop my LR ability, I first went through the LR bible, MLSAT LR, and the LSAT Trainer. I suggest you get MLSAT LR and the LSAT Trainer. I personally think MLSAT LR does a better job with assumptions. After my initial pass through each book, I re-read each chapter and took notes on the chapter, after which I "drilled" the question type covered in the chapter. Drilling consisted of me printing out the question type via the Cambridge LSAT bundle, solving between 20-50 questions of that type, and spending extensive time reviewing my performance. This is probs the most important part. After lots of question type drilling, I transitioned into drilling sections, so I could get a feel for the timing. Then, I moved on to PTs. Even then, if I noticed a trend/glaring area of weakness, I went back to drill that. In regards to your last question, while I do think the LSAT Trainer and MLSAT LR are better than the Logical Reasoning Bible, I still think the LRB is useful and I like to believe it helped me improve my score. Specifically, the LRB's chapter on formal logic is fantastic.

tl;dr - yes you can improve LR, yes the bibles helped, but I think MLSAT LR and LSAT Trainer are better than the LRB

[flash21]

yeah you can. I was missing 20+ combined throughout both sections, now I miss about 8-10 combined, and still working toward more improvement.

[fra]

I went from -9 over two sections in my cold diagnostic to -0 over both sections in my last timed practice test yesterday. I read through the bible and then used the blind review method and typed up any questions that I thought were particularly difficult for periodic review.

[Oskosh]

Yes... I used to be terrible at necessary assumption, flaw, and parallel flaw questions... and now I enjoy doing those. I still don't know how to get a perfect LR score, though. Closest I've been is -1.

[90convoy]

Missed -18 combined on my diagnostic. I have frequent -3s now

[KA631LGH]

tl;dr - yes you can improve LR, yes the bibles helped, but I think MLSAT LR and LSAT Trainer are better than the LRB

what exactly is the LSAT trainer? I've been looking for additional material - from what I've read numerous people like that book.

[mornincounselor]

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