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Hello, I previously made a thread about potentially attending law school this cycle until some helpful people gave me pause about that decision. While I'm not totally 100% on it yet, I've made a study plan until April 15th which would be the deadline to accept this cycle. If I don't see a noticeable improvement or feel better in general about the LSAT, I'd probably reconsider just going this cycle.

To avoid reposting information, here is my previous thread with my LSAT/GPA, etc:
http://www.top-law-schools.com/forums/v ... 1&t=260379

LSAT PrepTest Progress
1. 152
2. 152
3. 155
4. 162
5. 162
6. 161
7. 161
8. 162
9. 164
10. 161
11. 167
12. 165
13. 167
14. 165
15. 169 (I think this was a test I had taken previously so I don't necessarily count this one)

October 2016 LSAT: 161

I made a thread on the LSAT reddit with the same username: https://www.reddit.com/r/LSAT/comments/ ... d_plateau/

TL;DR:

The day of the actual test was probably the closest I've ever come to having a panic/anxiety attack. This time around I think I'll have a better handle on that given that I've already taken the test before and if i don't do well in June I could take it again in September/February. However, even now i can feel a pit in my stomach thinking about the LSAT and

Secondly, and perhaps more importantly, was my strategy of studying which I think was fairly ineffective. I had three months off to study for the LSAT and while I did take a number of PrepTests, I grew to have an aversion of taking them, particularly if I had done well previously as I did not want to see my score go down. Additionally, I had taken a PowerScore class and went through their textbooks which was probably responsible for my boost past 161 in the PrepTests.

Even so, I felt there was plenty of things I was doing wrong. Some days I felt like I couldn't sit still - I'd do a few problems, check them, and then walk around/get distracted, I was Blind Reviewing before the class but I stopped doing that after I had enrolled, and in general glazing over on some of the more convoluted LR/LG problems.

The Plan

I work full time so ideally I was going to try and fit in 2-3 hours after work Monday-Friday, go to the gym, and then go home to relax/sleep. Maybe on Saturdays I'd take a PT and then BR it Monday with Sundays being a break day. I ordered the LSAT Trainer and it should be here Tuesday. So i'd be using that mainly in combination with my old tests and PowerScore materials. I want to avoid burnout and make studying for it more enjoyable.

I'm at a loss on how many PTs I should be taking, the person on the Reddit thread says take less, while I see a ton of threads of people's study plans on TLS where they're taking 2 or more PTs a week. Re-using study materials is also a concern of mine.

Managing Expectations

I firmly believe I am better than a 161, but I'm not going to delude myself into believing that a 170+ is on lock. Ultimately I want to be at a 165 or better to either get a full ride at University of Houston or get accepted/ED at University of Texas. While I've been browsing the threads on this forum for advice and guides, I wanted to see if anyone had advice for my particular situation or could point me in the right direction.

A few questions:

Should I take a PrepTest right off the bat, as in this week?

How should I divide my time between reading the LSAT Trainer and doing practice tests? How many a week/month is optimal?

Any thoughts on managing anxiety?

I'll add more as I think of them, thank you in advance.

#1 I can't say I'm too jazzed about the dip the toe in the water and see where you are on April 15th thing. You absolutely should not cash in a 161 with your great GPA. I think you'll work with more focus and better results if you "burn your ships" and commit to not going this year and retaking in June while being prepared to take again in October/December if you don't get your target score, which shouldn't be any lower than 167.

#2 Greater preparation should reduce your anxiety. If you have the test down cold, unless you're suffering from some kind of broader anxiety condition, you should be able to push through any initial jitters and just do your thing on test day. Try to tell yourself as much as possible that you've already taken the LSAT. You know exactly what's going to await you...there will be no surprises (try not to read any discussions of LG #3 on the Dec. 2015 test and you'll really believe me). Also, you know you did not study in the intense and disciplined fashion that you know is required to maximize your score. It's like when a good football team goes out, commits six turnovers, and loses 35-10. Sometimes, the best thing is to just burn the tape and move on to the next game knowing that you didn't put your best effort in. Burn your mental tape of your prior study habits and focus on doing the right thing going forward.

I am someone who's big on daily exposure to test questions but also very careful about burnout. So, I never advise my students to take more than one whole PT in a week. Every day you're not taking a PT however, you should definitely be working on a section and doing thorough review. As you get better insight into what types of Arguments questions you're missing, you can spend study days drilling on those specific types.

fliptrip wrote:#1 I can't say I'm too jazzed about the dip the toe in the water and see where you are on April 15th thing. You absolutely should not cash in a 161 with your great GPA. I think you'll work with more focus and better results if you "burn your ships" and commit to not going this year and retaking in June while being prepared to take again in October/December if you don't get your target score, which shouldn't be any lower than 167.

#2 Greater preparation should reduce your anxiety. If you have the test down cold, unless you're suffering from some kind of broader anxiety condition, you should be able to push through any initial jitters and just do your thing on test day. Try to tell yourself as much as possible that you've already taken the LSAT. You know exactly what's going to await you...there will be no surprises (try not to read any discussions of LG #3 on the Dec. 2015 test and you'll really believe me). Also, you know you did not study in the intense and disciplined fashion that you know is required to maximize your score. It's like when a good football team goes out, commits six turnovers, and loses 35-10. Sometimes, the best thing is to just burn the tape and move on to the next game knowing that you didn't put your best effort in. Burn your mental tape of your prior study habits and focus on doing the right thing going forward.

I am someone who's big on daily exposure to test questions but also very careful about burnout. So, I never advise my students to take more than one whole PT in a week. Every day you're not taking a PT however, you should definitely be working on a section and doing thorough review. As you get better insight into what types of Arguments questions you're missing, you can spend study days drilling on those specific types.

Thanks for the input, I hadn't considered how leaving the option open might undermine my commitment.

In between PTs and doing BRs, I was hoping to just go through the LSAT Trainer page by page, highlighting, answering problems, and taking notes.

How would you drill problems? Would you get a set of 10-50 picked out of PrepTests? I've heard of copying LGs three times and doing those over until you have them down.

Hopefully later I can articulate specifically what it is about individual problems that gets me.

I think that the Cambridge LSAT compilation of different question types are really helpful. That way you can practice without consuming your most valuable PT material. You'll have to be a little careful because some of the questions are 25 years old, but in general they are great practice.

fliptrip wrote:I think that the Cambridge LSAT compilation of different question types are really helpful. That way you can practice without consuming your most valuable PT material. You'll have to be a little careful because some of the questions are 25 years old, but in general they are great practice.

Didn't realize they had those, I might get a bundle in a month. Right now I have a significant amount of questions in a Kaplan book and some ancient Princeton Review book I found.

Took a PT Monday and Blind Reviewed it today, my results were:

PrepTest 70:

-4 LG 1, -5 RC, -5 LG, -6 LR 2 for a 164.

My Blind Review score was a 165.

The good:

I was very calm and detached taking this exam.

Despite working all day I was, for the most part, focused and engaged in the test. I hope such a handicap now will pay dividends on test day.

Finished with time on every section.

Score is not below my actual LSAT and superior to my expectations.

Definitely more a focus on the process (BR) than the result. I feel like this is the beginning of actually making the studying fun.

2.5-3 hours seems to be the magic number for me in terms of studying. This schedule seems very workable and gives me about an hour or more before bed to actually relax. As time goes on I'm confident I can increase the time spent studying.

My LSAT Trainer book came in today!

The bad:

Halfway through the BR I got pretty impatient, I might need to split it up between two days. A single section took me over an hour, as it should, but I felt my focus slipping. I did LR 1 meticulously, then went to LG and did the first two games before moving far more speedily through everything else.

Most of the questions I had starred/circled as I went through the test ended up NOT being the ones I got wrong. Additionally, I second guessed myself at least three or more times on the ones I got correct, most of the ones I had gotten wrong went by completely unnoticed. I didn't notice them during the actual test and my rush through the second half of my BR prevented me from noticing them then.

Completely baffled by Q10-12 for Game 2 in LG and Q25 & Q26 in LR 2.

There are definitely several questions I glazed over on as I lost a grip on what the question was saying. Additionally, I feel like I should have a better understanding of certain types of LG types such as In/Out games.

Now my plan is to simply go through the LSAT Trainer page by page, highlighting, making notes, and doing every activity it has. Every week, I'll do a PrepTest and BR it. I'll try to keep this thread updated. Any suggestions on getting at the above problems would be much appreciated.

If I had to condense me feelings about the LSAT it'd be that I have this intuition that i know about 3/5ths of what I need to know, there just simply are a few more advanced concepts and maybe a couple basic ones that are out of my reach.

Use lsathacks.com for LR explanations. They are excellent. I go to him when I get stuck on an explanation with one of my students.

A quick update, I've been using the LSAT Trainer for these last few weeks and have primarily been focusing on the LR chapters. I love this book and its helping me think about the LSAT in a way that Kaplan/PowerScore has not. It's starting to make it fun and really taking away the anxiety for the test as a whole. I wouldn't be entirely truthful if I said I wasn't anxious, but once I actually start thinking about what I've learned, it goes away pretty quick. Even so there is always that doubt and fear that I don't know the material as well as I ought to, even if it might not be entirely rational.

I took PrepTest 71 yesterday and I am planning on Blind Reviewing it today. Finished all sections, but cut it close on one of the LR sections and it was a photo finish for the last three LG questions although I'm pretty confident I got them all correct. I feel pretty good about the test as a whole, we'll see if that's a well placed belief after today. Circled far more questions for BR this time around as well.

During my studying last year, a PT used to be an exhausting affair in which I would have to build up my energy to do it, now I was practically looking forward to it. So I can't understate how much the LSAT Trainer has helped in this regard.

A question type I'm having trouble with are assumptions, could be necessary/sufficient, that use overtly logical statements such as this one:https://www.manhattanprep.com/lsat/foru ... t2242.html.

To me, the entire setup of the question is a farce. It tries to make you look at it like it's going to be a logical sequence but punishes you if you do that since you get caught up on the tricky wording. Only the second post made much sense to me, and whoever posted it didn't utilize formal logic at all.

A second question type, and one that's far harder to quantify, is Assumption/Strengthen/Weaken questions with no obvious/clear conclusion. I suppose the aforementioned question could be used as an example since it's similar in that respect. This also might be a good example: https://www.manhattanprep.com/lsat/foru ... t1326.html.

I suppose all it will come down to is more practice and more unconscious understanding of what the question is asking me. Most of the time during this most recent PrepTest I felt things flowed pretty well.

LG seems to be a problem for me as sometimes I can go -2, three times I've been -0 on PTs or standalone sections. However, I usually end up being -5 or better. This particular PT though it was all sequence games so I feel like I did pretty well. In/Out games are typically the hardest for me.

I have a lot of old LSATs but I've written on all of them, should I still try to re-use them? I'm worried that I might see my old markings through my erasings and that will influence my answers and skew my score for better or for worse. I'm considering erasing, then scanning and printing them so the marks aren't apparent but I'm not entirely confident that would work.

I'm planning on taking the free LSAT offered on LSACs site next week and then taking the LSAT I officially took in October the week after that.

Edit: Checked my LSAT last night, it was a 163: -6 LR1, -5 LG, -6 LR2, -7 RC. Blind Review was a 165. Judging by how it was scored this must've been a harder LSAT as it took a -18 for a 167 (my goal), no excuse though for my performance.

On each LR there was probably only one question each that really stumped me during the BR, the rest I understood. I also screwed up again on my BR after the first section as I panicked when I saw I missed -6 and was hoping for the rest of the sections to be better. Lesson for the future as I denied myself the chance to re-try the questions; the impulse is to assume I got it right.

Another note, I feel like I'm rushing through the question stem and especially the answer choices. Had I read just a bit more closely, across all sections, I probably would have gotten a 165 or higher. Not sure how to counteract this but I'm glad I caught on. Any tips?

Slightly disappointed with the second test performance but I won't let it get me down. I'm just two weeks in and still have plenty of the LSAT Trainer to cover.

Retook the LSAT I had taken in October and got a 161 on, I'm pretty thrilled with the results.

166 graded, 167 BR (+2 correct). As usual BR could have been more thorough.

Breakdown is -3 RC/-3 LR 1/-8 LG ( )/-3 LR 2.

The second game I misread a rule, lost track of time, and got stuck on the first question of it which is supposed to be the easiest. Skipped the rest of it and came back to it. Had to guess on five questions, all incorrect. At least one of the other mistakes was due to rushing trying to get back to the incomplete game.

Been focusing very hard on LR recently, spent the entire week going through all of the LSAT Trainer chapters pertinent to LR, up to Chapter 30, and doing all of the drills. Haven't focused very much on anything else. Last RC passage was rough.

While I'm excited, it's still tempered by the fact that I took this one already, although I didn't recognize the questions beyond remembering the subject of each of the RC passages.

Additionally, I spent a considerable amount of time going back over old preptests/sections for LR and re-doing questions I had missed and I'm starting to get those right more often than not, now when I do typical LR questions they feel much easier.

Pros:
-Took this on a Friday so I did this with all the fatigue of the week built up.
-Did it with a distraction, the people in the office next door were watching a movie/throwing a party.
-Performed much better than I expected, the LSAT Trainer and focusing on LR is really paying off.

Cons:
-Forgot to use a bubble sheet.
-Didn't use a 5th section.
-Previously taken LSAT.

LSAT scores up to this point are:

1.164
2.163
3.166

Got about two and a half months left till June so I believe that's plenty of time for my goal. Overall been averaging about 15-17 hours a week on the LSAT, work ends at 5:00 and I go until 8 or 8:30. Afterwards I go to the gym for about 30-45 minutes. Sleep is a big concern for me however as I can't seem to wind down until close to midnight, even though I get up at 7.

Couple questions:
Should I take older PrepTests? I think I might have a few from some of the 30-40 range that I haven't taken.
When I erase answers/marks on older PrepTests, I can still see them and that very much biases my answer choice, any ideas on how to get around this? We have a scanner at work and I've tried scanning some pages, but when it comes out of a book with a heavy spine like the LSAT books tend to have, the pages get messed up and the marks are still evident. Any was to circumvent this?

Either way I feel good. My relationship with the LSAT this time around is much healthier and I don't have to fight myself to study, rather than being a drag I was sort of looking forward to taking another PrepTest.

It's a long way to the top if you want to rock and roll.

Sorry for not updating last week, took the free June 2007 LSAT off of the LSAC site and got a 163 on it.

-5 LG/ -2 LR1 / -6 LR2/ -5 RC

Now I thought this score was halfway decent, but turns out the curve on this test is insane. Normally that would be in the 165 area.

However, that test is not what I wanted to talk about, I just took PrepTest 69; five sections with the scantron. I took the 'experimental' from PT 62 RC.

I re-used this test by erasing my answers previously with one of those high-polymer erasers and covering the answers with my hands when I came to it. Nonetheless I recognized this test.

I got a 173 but I think that might have been the 3rd or 4th time I've taken it. In essence, I feel like I wasted my time. Normally I'd be ecstatic about such a score, but I'm fairly certain that I just recognized a lot of the hard ones. The score breakdown on this one is irrelevant.

How should I feel about this test? I absolutely do not believe that score is representative of my capabilities at this point and I feel to do so would be lying to myself. How might I re-use PrepTests in a more efficient manner? I should have been more vigilant when selecting my PT. Needless to say, I won't be counting this one towards my score. I might take another this week to make up for it.

Keep the updates coming. I've been watching. In a similar slightly shittier situation.

wschultz4 wrote:Keep the updates coming. I've been watching. In a similar slightly shittier situation.

Thanks for reading, at this point I feel like posting is as much for my benefit as for anyone to answer any questions. Now that it's the day after I'm feeling a bit better about it, even knowing it was a waste of time.

mackoftexas wrote:

wschultz4 wrote:Keep the updates coming. I've been watching. In a similar slightly shittier situation.

Thanks for reading, at this point I feel like posting is as much for my benefit as for anyone to answer any questions. Now that it's the day after I'm feeling a bit better about it, even knowing it was a waste of time.

I've been reading too.. Keep the updates coming, and keep up the hard work - it will pay off...

I'm flattered people have been reading, so thank you for that.

I've been going after LG pretty hard now, erasing my answers in the book and doing all the work on scratch paper. Been doing it all last week with good results. Usually I'll go back over 2-4 sections of LR, erasing questions I've missed and doing them over again to warm up. It seems to be working well.

Had a rough start on Monday with -4, -5 and -7 on three games. Today at lunch I did a section and tanked it at -9, missing the last game entirely due to time. It took me an additional 15 minutes to finish it after the fact. That atrocious performance, however, I can partially attribute to being in a really busy and distracting environment. -4/-5 seems to be the usual for me.

Nevertheless, -5 and -7 are not where I want to be, so what I've done is simply re-did all the ones I did yesterday and sure enough on every section I got -2 which I am very happy with.

My observations have been that a majority of my issues come from missing a key rule that's actually in the body of the text such as this one: https://7sage.com/lsat_explanations/lsa ... n-1-game-4
or simply missing key inferences that would make the game easier.

Misreading a question is probably the most frustrating because it's the stupidest and I need to work on it.

My diagramming is good, although as with everything, it could be better.

There is definitely a difference when I 'get' the game, versus when I feel like I'm simply dabbling. Games like the one I linked are hard because there is no set-up beyond understanding the rules and tacking everything together by question. Diagramming, beyond having a reference sheet of each individual's tasks, didn't factor in the way it would with say, the dinosaur game.

I'm really trying to nail down how to do these quickly, the last game I finished today was -2 and with 8 minutes remaining. However it was one I had taken the day prior. I want to be able to do that seeing a game set for the first time. 7sage has helped when I really need clarification.

Hopefully something will click, I probably need to do more of the LSAT Trainer.

I have to admit recently I've encountered a bit of frustration, I've been mainly drilling Logic Games thanks to reading some helpful suggestions in this thread: http://www.top-law-schools.com/forums/v ... 6&t=262249

Especially helpful was an article linked that addressed almost all of my concerns: http://www.lexaholik.com/5-ways-i-overc ... red-a-170/

However, I am consistently scoring -6 on average for Logic Games on the first go and then significantly better (-2 or less) on the second or third go around. I have probably drilled the same first five logic games from the 39-51 2-3 times now. My 'drills' have been simply timed sections.

I know I addressed some of my problems in an earlier post, but I feel like I'm always missing a key inference which is taking up a lot of time and makes me lose focus because the inference doesn't jump out at me like I want it to. Additionally, I've started using up my lunch hour to get in some extra studying/drills, but again I feel like I'm simply treading water and getting nowhere fast.

Hopefully there will be a breakthrough like the author of that article mentions, I'm definitely hoping for it. While I dread the possibility of having to retake in September/October, I still acknowledge that I may have to.

I haven't really gone across most of the LSAT Trainer concerning LG and I'm thinking I should do that and either split my time between that and drills or simply dedicate a week to LSAT Trainer LG.

Secondly, does anyone have any personal advice about LG that pertains to how I seem to be struggling? I feel like I should be past running out of time, making stupid mistakes, and missing key inferences.

I want to see some form of progress that breaks me out of this 161-165 tier and it's disappointing that I haven't seen it yet. And then that brings up a whole host of new questions: am I studying hard enough? Is the way I'm studying beneficial? There's always that doubt that undermines confidence.

Perhaps I'm being melodramatic as there is still more than a month and a half until the June LSAT, however I want to make the most of the study time I have and that means consistently doing well on LG. What's frustrating is that I may do well on one game only to fall back to my -5 or -6 the next.

After my depressing post Monday I'm glad to say that on Tuesday I did a -2 (retake), and then a -4 and -3 on ones I had not seen before.

Today I did two -2's on LG sections I hadn't done in recent memory. (AKA I didn't remember anything about them)

I hope this means I've finally broken through LG, or perhaps I simply got two 'easier' LG sections: 52 and 53.

Either way, I'm elated and I hope I don't jinx myself later. I'm going to continue drilling LG for the rest of this week and probably for another entire week.

As an aside, do you think it might be a good idea to take an extended break? I don't think I've not studied for more than three days. I think I can keep this pace up until the test, but I'm not sure if it would be a mistake to do it or not do it.

I've kept up the pace this month and started today with two -1s on timed LGs.

I know for certain I haven't seen the first in a long time, the second I might've done in the recent past.

I'm fairly certain I'll close out this week doing LG and then following it up with LR for the next few weeks. However, I am slightly concerned about not taking a full PT in a long while and am unsure whether I should start doing weekly tests again. I'm curious as to what my score might be after drilling LG for so long. In my warm-ups prior to taking the drills (In which I do 5-10 missed LR questions from past test) I feel like I've gotten better at LR because of it.

My projected game plan for May is to order the Superprep II and try to get at least two of those tests done prior to the test, especially the unreleased one. I haven't used the LSAT Trainer much since LG so I probably need to get back to that.

What should I do about RC?

Any ideas on how I should split up my time from here on out? Between drills/full-length PTs? Between LG/LR/RC?

I'm consistently hitting below the time on LR and only have gotten better, any tips for really cutting down on wasted time during the drills/test? I want to be finishing these in thirty minutes.

The most important thing for me is how I feel about this test. And right now I'm feeling a lot better than I did a few weeks ago. I look forward to the next month and seeing on how I can improve from here to the test.

mackoftexas wrote:I've kept up the pace this month and started today with two -1s on timed LGs.

What are you scoring on LR and what has your progress in LR looked like if I can ask?

wschultz4 wrote:

mackoftexas wrote:I've kept up the pace this month and started today with two -1s on timed LGs.

What are you scoring on LR and what has your progress in LR looked like if I can ask?

It is probably a -5 average for LR right now, although I haven't done full LR sections in a few weeks since I've been doing LG. Previously, I think it's been a -6 average when I started out studying again in February. RC is probably a -4 average and was typically my best section before. I doubt I've made much progress on RC since I haven't really done all that much on it.

I'm hoping that since I've been doing warm-ups of missed LR questions from past sections before I do my LG drills that it's brought up my LR average. I also feel like some of the reasoning skills I've developed doing LG will pay off in LR, particularly ones that have to do with formal logic. I might take a few sections as drills and see how I do, I'm curious now.

Took PrepTest 64 today with an extra RC section from PT 55 (section 2), I'm happy about the score but with a few reservations. This is a retake and I used a bubble sheet.

I took the extra RC first so the score breakdown was:

-5 RC ("experimental)/ -1 LR / -2 LG / -5 LR /-7 RC

I was really upset to see that the RCs were so bad since as I had said in a previous post, I had done so well on them before. I am hoping the performance drop is merely because of fatigue. I am aware of at least two questions right off the bat were because of sloppy reading on RC, and one for LR. I really can't afford to make a -7 on the actual test.

I'm not exactly sure how to feel, I felt pretty confident on all the sections and finished within time. I'm especially thrilled with my LG score remaining so high, particularly since that section was a photo finish.

The -1 on the LR seems to be a fluke to me, I've rarely ever scored that, but maybe that section simply hit everything I was proficient at.

In all, I'm hoping the terrible performance on the last 2/5ths of the test was because of fatigue and not actual lack of understanding the material. I want to be confident and happy about the score, but the atrocious scores on the last two sections is really getting to me.

Any suggestions?

University of Houston e-mailed me yesterday and offered me a full ride, that's up from a previous offer of 58,000 to 90,000.

I really don't know whether or not to accept or deny it. There is definitely a lot of pressure from the people at my work to take it and just get on with life.

I've already invested a lot of time and effort for my retake and I'm still slated for June 6th. Overall I am certain that I can do better than my pathetic 161. Any advice?

Ignore the people at work who with all due respect, probably have no idea about law school or the LSAT. Even if they do, its not their life, so you have to do what is best for you. If you know you can do better than a 161, why not take the extra time to do it and get into an even better school with a full ride.

Barack O'Drama wrote:Ignore the people at work who with all due respect, probably have no idea about law school or the LSAT. Even if they do, its not their life, so you have to do what is best for you. If you know you can do better than a 161, why not take the extra time to do it and get into an even better school with a full ride.

I work at a PI firm haha, but you are right most of them went to Law School more than ten years ago with the exception of one lawyer. Even if I don't get a 167 or better, it's good to have some closure after the 161 I received the first time.

Anyway, I haven't posted in this thread for some time and I should post an update. I've been doing a decent amount of studying the last week and into this week, about 1-2 hours a day after work. I took the first week of May off after the message I got from UH Law. I tried studying the day of and ended up getting a -5 and -7 on LG and knew it was time to take a break.

There were some good and bad effects of receiving that letter, there is now almost no anxiety or tension for me when thinking about the LSAT, I am at ease. However, this has also drained my willingness to study somewhat; my study hours have been reduced and I haven't been as focused. I still plan on taking at least one more PT before the test however.

As I'm starting to get back into it, I've been doing mainly LG, drilling LR, with a few RC sections. The most recent set of tests, particularly the 70s, seem to have harder LG, I scored a -5, -3, and -4 before settling back into regular -2s and -3s.

I have also noticed a few things, with LG there seems to be what I call a 'key rule' which is far more important to the set of questions. What really made this stand out for me was this game: http://lsathacks.com/explanations/lsat- ... e-2-setup/

I believe the ~O -> P rule to be key due to how it seems to be the one that is easiest to forget and how it leads to more inferences.

On LR I have observed that I tend to take too long or miss a problem because I've looking too closely at details and not the question at large. I've found being relaxed and not trying to rush is the best strategy for me. I still have trouble on some question types, such as Assumption, however.

Lastly, RC seems to really come down to pure focus for me. The strategies are very helpful but how fatigued I am seems to be a huge determinant.

I'm feeling good about the LSAT and am confident about a better score, thank you all for your encouragement.