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I'm curious how useful was pre-phrasing for top scorers? (165 or above) Secondly, do you have any advice on how to get better at pre-phrasing, or how to get better at pre-phrasing on certain question types?

i think the easiest questions to prephrase are necessary assumption/sufficient assumption questions. after that, things get more dicey. you can have an idea of the flaw, and what the correct answer choice will do, and that's about all the prephrasing you can do for stengthen/weaken. flaws are the same way...youll have an idea of what the flaw is, but lsac wil jumble up those answer choices to throw you off.

Never consciously did it. Sometimes it's pretty obvious on the early questions but i felt like it was a waste of time.

BillPackets wrote:i think the easiest questions to prephrase are necessary assumption/sufficient assumption questions. after that, things get more dicey. you can have an idea of the flaw, and what the correct answer choice will do, and that's about all the prephrasing you can do for stengthen/weaken. flaws are the same way...youll have an idea of what the flaw is, but lsac wil jumble up those answer choices to throw you off.

On assumption family questions I tend to find the unstated assumption, and then I prephrase the answer to the question corresponding to the question type.

I do it on most questions. Really speeds me up. I don't spend much time *trying* to prephrase though. Instead, I just make sure I know the reasoning, and the conclusion. Then I ask "how could this be wrong?". If I get an answer to that question, that's also a prephrase.

If no answer occurs to me, I just move on to the answers.

I scored well, I'm not even entirely sure what pre-phrased answers are. I know that isn't overly helpful, but it does answer your first question.

i did it
it's no cure-all, but it pushes you in the right direction
better for some question times (sufficient assumption) than others (principle apply)
try to figure out what question types are most conducive to prephrasing
then force yourself to do it

eta: don't kill yourself with it though
don't stare at the page for 45 seconds trying to pp during pts
read, allow a few seconds, then get to the answers

I feel like pre-phrasing my answers is what jumped my score out of the 150's to the upper 160's. As everyone's stated, it's not possible on every question, but I found it made spotting the right answers much easier.