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Some more info might be helpful. How many hours a day are you studying? How many PTs are you taking/have taken? How long have you been studying for?

It is okay to have slow days here are there. When I was studying, my PTs would vary as much as 8 or 9 points (which would freak me out). Just make sure you keep a consistent schedule and actually learn from your mistakes, not just take the PT.

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Phoenix97 wrote:I am taking next month off to focus solely on studying for my LSAT retake in December.

I have been PTing in the 164-165 range, but today fell to 160. I can feel burn out starting to creep in, but with [what feels like] so little prep time between now and December, I do not feel as though I have the luxury of taking a week off to decompress. My worst section (consistently and by far) is RC.

My goal is break 170 on December's test.

Advice?

Did you take the whole month off from work?????

I work full time and I really want to take the last week of November off but I don;t know how my supervisor would take it.... (law firm)

I went from my first lsat prep test at 140s to a final lsat of mid 170s. The 170s score I actually took a week off about 4 weeks before the exam. I had a friend visit and we just played golf the whole time. Didn't think about the lsat once. It really helped me. I was stuck at the 168-170 mark before the break. After the break all of a sudden I was hitting 175+. My brain just needed a rest and time to figure it out on its own. There are some studies that suggest stuff like that anyway. I remember reading the best time to learn math is right before bed. Then when you sleep your brain actually has time to process the information. In the same way, a break can help. Go camping. Go on a trip. Just don't do lsat stuff for a week. Then see what happens.

fredfred wrote:I went from my first lsat prep test at 140s to a final lsat of mid 170s. The 170s score I actually took a week off about 4 weeks before the exam. I had a friend visit and we just played golf the whole time. Didn't think about the lsat once. It really helped me. I was stuck at the 168-170 mark before the break. After the break all of a sudden I was hitting 175+. My brain just needed a rest and time to figure it out on its own. There are some studies that suggest stuff like that anyway. I remember reading the best time to learn math is right before bed. Then when you sleep your brain actually has time to process the information. In the same way, a break can help. Go camping. Go on a trip. Just don't do lsat stuff for a week. Then see what happens.

I'm kind of afraid if taking a week off will make me forget something I've learned on LSAT, and LSAT really is "practice makes perfect".

Phoenix97 wrote:

Babum wrote:Some more info might be helpful. How many hours a day are you studying? How many PTs are you taking/have taken? How long have you been studying for?

It is okay to have slow days here are there. When I was studying, my PTs would vary as much as 8 or 9 points (which would freak me out). Just make sure you keep a consistent schedule and actually learn from your mistakes, not just take the PT.

I study from around 10am to about 4pm with breaks. I have no idea how many PTs I've done, but I do one every three days.
When it comes to LG, the occasional wacky or ridiculously hard game throws me off...but I can generally learn to tweak my technique.
When it comes to LR, fatigue or reading too fast is almost always the culprit.
When it comes to RC...I'm all over the place. Not sure how to "learn from my mistakes" in this section.

1) Yeah, there were some LG that till this day I cant solve. (Infamous airport game, I look at you.)

2) This might be a long shot, but do you wear glasses? I had to get glasses while studying for the LSATs because of how dense the readings were. Perhaps you have a similar situation?

3) I'd agree with the above posters and say take a week off, but once you come back, start doing more than 1 PT every three days.

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fredfred wrote:I went from my first lsat prep test at 140s to a final lsat of mid 170s. The 170s score I actually took a week off about 4 weeks before the exam. I had a friend visit and we just played golf the whole time. Didn't think about the lsat once. It really helped me. I was stuck at the 168-170 mark before the break. After the break all of a sudden I was hitting 175+. My brain just needed a rest and time to figure it out on its own. There are some studies that suggest stuff like that anyway. I remember reading the best time to learn math is right before bed. Then when you sleep your brain actually has time to process the information. In the same way, a break can help. Go camping. Go on a trip. Just don't do lsat stuff for a week. Then see what happens.

I'm kind of afraid if taking a week off will make me forget something I've learned on LSAT, and LSAT really is "practice makes perfect".

yes but there is a line of diminishing returns. Your brain needs rest as well.

I personally found taking a couple of days off every now and then to help. I don't think it needs to be a whole week.

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