Ran Out of Prep Tests Forum

[ginawwhan]

So I've been prepping for LSAT for a while now, and I ran into a problem that I'm not sure how to deal with.
I first started by taking a course with Kaplan (before everyone starts crapping all over it, I found it helpful for ME personally despite its horrible reviews). Then I printed out all the prep tests that have been released starting from the very first one all the way till the 74th. I worked my way through from the bottom and now I am at prep test 47. The problem is that I've already seen prep test 47 to 64 because the questions from those are distributed across the course material that I took with Kaplan. I am planning to do prep tests 50 to 74 when I go back to school which is also the last month and half before the test that I'm taking it in October. What should I do before then? Should I go back to doing older tests? or should I just continue my way through and end up doing prep test 47 to 64 three times (once with Kaplan, once during summer, once when school starts)?

[fredfred]

Spent over a year studying. Went from 143 to mid 170s. I reused every practice test multiple times. Just keep going back to the start. If you go through them 1 by 1, when you make it back to the start you wont remember mostly and also it isn't about whether or not you have seen it before, it is about the process at arriving at the answer correctly.

[RZ5646]

Inadvertent memorization of questions is a serious problem, but my view is that you can combat that by swiftly going through reams of material instead of obsessing over some small subset of questions. If you do 50 PTs, you're going to remember some stuff for sure, but there's no way you'll remember a significant portion of that material.

[BlueprintJason]

Inadvertent memorization of questions is a serious problem, but my view is that you can combat that by swiftly going through reams of material instead of obsessing over some small subset of questions. If you do 50 PTs, you're going to remember some stuff for sure, but there's no way you'll remember a significant portion of that material.

I think this is spot on. Yeah, you'll remember things if you do them again, but the more material you see, the less you remember because it all bleeds together.

The other thing here is that when you re-do things you find out if you really mastered the skills or if you still need to review. Don't feel like you can't get better using the same material again. You can!

[mynameismyname]

I didn't make any significant jumps on the lsat until I started retaking lsats and noticing patterns, common trick answers, and what to look for in reading comp. I would rather retake 20 preptests 3 times than take 60 lsats once. Its like an athlete or musician practicing their craft. If you practice hard missed questions on tests and full- length tests over and over again, you fully grasp the thinking behind them and typically don't make the same mistake again. Reusing preptests is one of the best things you can do. (Went from a 148 diagnostic immediately to a three month plateau at 161... started to reuse tests Immediately scored 168+ on fresh tests fairly consistently after that)