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Hi guys

I am taking Sept LSAT in Toronto and looking for some advice. (I registered on June but my hands have been really full for the last couple of months so I just postpone the test to Sept)
Sortting out how PT and Blind Review works two weeks ago,I did three PT under time limit in mid May just to get a clear pattern of my weakness. Before the PT I read the LG bible and LR bible and finished the drill in the book, while I never got to drill systematically.

My First three PT scores is as follows: (I'm using 7sage website scoring table to track my scores)
prep test c: 158 actual scores /165 Blind review scores (4 sections under timed condition)
prep test 10 :159 actual scores/165 Blind review scores (4 sections with 1 additional lr section from preptest 21, scored for pt10 only)
prep test 32: 161 actual scores/167 Blind review scores (4 sections with 1 additional rc section from preptest 21, scored for pt32 only)

My worst part is LG, for each PT I had to miss a whole game, which lead me to an average -11 in LG
LR is slightly better as it has a -5.3 average and RC get a -7 average

I found LR bible is pretty much useless to me for I can never utilize most of its methods during PT. During all three PTs I was pretty much clueless and just tried to read the question thourgh and choose the answer initutively.(Pretty much like what I did in RC)
Then I turned to Manhattan LR and find its method much easier to implement in drill. I Just read through the whole book this week and hopefully I can have some improvement in LR

With that being said, I am planning to drill the game by type for the old PT 1-20 for multiple times, while keep doing PTs so I can improve my time management skills. For me I think 3-4 PT per week is doable since I don't have much work to do right now.

However I wonder should I drill the LR by type as well or just keep doing timed PT+LG by type for the next couple of weeks.

Besides I really need some advices on RC. I don't see people discussing about how to improve RC a lot on the forum. I wonder if there is any study material recommandation on this part. Just for the record, I am not a Native Speaker. My first Language is Mandarian and I didn't move to North America until four years ago. So for me RC will be more time consuming. I tried to read the Economist before bedtime but I wonder if there is a more straightforward way to improve the RC.

Another issue concerns me is the experimental section. For the last two PT I did all 4 scored sections then the 5th is fake section. Now I realize that this order actually let me go easy on the last one so I wonder where should I put the fake section. Do you guys suggest put the fake section at the very beginning or put it between the 2-4 sections? And which part(RC/LR/LG) would you recommend to use? I read some threads talking about to drill timed PT by 6 instead of 5 sections. The reasion behind this is to maximaze the mental endurance so during the actual test you won't feel fatigue. I wonder if this is a sound strategy or will it burn me out really soon?

Looking forward to read your opinions on this one.
Thanks a lot.

I definitely do not recommend doing a six section PT. My first time taking it, I was so worried that I would be fatigued with five sections that I wasted a lot of valuable material and effort creating five section PTs. On the day of the actual test, your adrenaline is flowing so much that time flies by. Once the test is over then you start to feel.mentally tired. The second time studying I practiced solely without an experimental and come test day, I was fine. I think you can do five section practice tests periodically but definitely not every one and certainly not six sections. Once you do enough PTs LSAT will be second nature to you anyway.

Right now you definitely want to work on logic games as it's much easier to jmprove on than RC. Your LR is really good so once you get all four games solved your score should be solid. I would work on different types of games as practice, not just one PTs. Do them untimed and really work through them, and then do them a second time under timed conditions. It's okay when drilling to redo games, you really need to cement that way of thinking in your head. The key to getting LGs is just drill over and over agajn

Keilz wrote:I definitely do not recommend doing a six section PT. My first time taking it, I was so worried that I would be fatigued with five sections that I wasted a lot of valuable material and effort creating five section PTs. On the day of the actual test, your adrenaline is flowing so much that time flies by. Once the test is over then you start to feel.mentally tired. The second time studying I practiced solely without an experimental and come test day, I was fine. I think you can do five section practice tests periodically but definitely not every one and certainly not six sections. Once you do enough PTs LSAT will be second nature to you anyway.

Right now you definitely want to work on logic games as it's much easier to jmprove on than RC. Your LR is really good so once you get all four games solved your score should be solid. I would work on different types of games as practice, not just one PTs. Do them untimed and really work through them, and then do them a second time under timed conditions. It's okay when drilling to redo games, you really need to cement that way of thinking in your head. The key to getting LGs is just drill over and over agajn

Thanks for replying
I will try this strategy for next few days and do a PT to see how it goes
BTW, during actual test do we have any kind of rest between secton 1,2,3? I choose to skip the rest time including the 15 min break during timed PT but I am not sure if I am doing this right.

andrewhl wrote:

Keilz wrote:I definitely do not recommend doing a six section PT. My first time taking it, I was so worried that I would be fatigued with five sections that I wasted a lot of valuable material and effort creating five section PTs. On the day of the actual test, your adrenaline is flowing so much that time flies by. Once the test is over then you start to feel.mentally tired. The second time studying I practiced solely without an experimental and come test day, I was fine. I think you can do five section practice tests periodically but definitely not every one and certainly not six sections. Once you do enough PTs LSAT will be second nature to you anyway.

Right now you definitely want to work on logic games as it's much easier to jmprove on than RC. Your LR is really good so once you get all four games solved your score should be solid. I would work on different types of games as practice, not just one PTs. Do them untimed and really work through them, and then do them a second time under timed conditions. It's okay when drilling to redo games, you really need to cement that way of thinking in your head. The key to getting LGs is just drill over and over agajn

Thanks for replying
I will try this strategy for next few days and do a PT to see how it goes
BTW, during actual test do we have any kind of rest between secton 1,2,3? I choose to skip the rest time including the 15 min break during timed PT but I am not sure if I am doing this right.

10-15 min break between 3 and 4