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I take PTs under timed conditions. So far, I have taken three in one week. While taking the exam, I circle questions that were challenging, regardless if I answered it or skipped it. After the exam, I answer questions I ran out of time for with no time constraints. Then, I review the challenging questions before checking the answers. After checking the answers, I review the incorrect ones. Essentially, I am doing a test simulation-blind review hybrid.

When I review, I look to see why my choice was wrong and the other choice was right. However, I am concerned I am not reviewing correctly because it seems like my review is tailored to the specific question that was wrong versus a broader concept that could be applied to other tests.Granted, I have been gaining some insight that I otherwise would not have.

How do you review?

Lastly, some people say that they notice patterns that recur throughout the exams as they complete and review more of them. Those who said this claimed to have completed and reviewed more than 20 PTs. Does anyone know what patterns specifically? Also, at what point did these patterns become evident?

Finding patterns in your struggles involves understanding the question types and documenting basically every part of your process. You can keep an excel sheet of questions that you get wrong and their corresponding question type. (There are plenty of methods on this forum and elsewhere) You may see that you struggle with a specific type of LR question or a certain type of RC passage, which you can then isolate and practice more on (since there's not much point in focusing intently on the concepts that you already understand).

Also, I hope you are marking some answer for those that you skip. You don't get points taken off for an incorrect answer, and you can always come back at the end of the section if you have extra time, but getting in the habit of skipping questions and leaving them blank can really mess you up on bubbling and during test day.

I found it helpful to write out explanations (in my own words) for why each incorrect answer was incorrect and why the correct answer was correct when I reviewed PTs

I usually put in my answers into 7sage which analyzes them and can tell you what type of question you got wrong. I would then take the types I'm having the most trouble with and just do questions of that type repeatedly, also re-do problems I've done before until I have the right reasoning for it - not just oh I remember I got this one wrong, it was B.

wilt wrote:I usually put in my answers into 7sage which analyzes them and can tell you what type of question you got wrong. I would then take the types I'm having the most trouble with and just do questions of that type repeatedly, also re-do problems I've done before until I have the right reasoning for it - not just oh I remember I got this one wrong, it was B.

I do this as well as BR. The 7Sage thing was such ba big help studying LR for me. It would let me know what I suck at and then I could go back and review that chapter in the bible/manhattan/LSAT Trainer.

Also, Love your tar man. Omar is the man

Barack O'Drama wrote:

wilt wrote:I usually put in my answers into 7sage which analyzes them and can tell you what type of question you got wrong. I would then take the types I'm having the most trouble with and just do questions of that type repeatedly, also re-do problems I've done before until I have the right reasoning for it - not just oh I remember I got this one wrong, it was B.

I do this as well as BR. The 7Sage thing was such ba big help studying LR for me. It would let me know what I suck at and then I could go back and review that chapter in the bible/manhattan/LSAT Trainer.

Also, Love your tar man. Omar is the man

yeah, this is a great method for LR! Just do as many as you can until you're getting them right.

and thank ya