During those months, you should aim to study two to three hours per day, five days a week. You will need to block off the rest of your calendar and get your head down if you are serious about successfully passing the LSAT.
You will need to spend many hours dedicated to completing LSAT practice problems if you want to ace the exam. You need to do this for various reasons. Practicing LSAT practice problems enables you to become familiar with how test questions are structured. You will also become familiar with the levels of difficulty that are included in test questions, as not every question will be of the same level of difficulty.
Also, you simply need to familiarize yourself with LSAT questions as much as possible before the test comes around so that you are prepared to tackle anything the exam throws at you. So, although studying things like Logic Games and Reading Comprehension are important, studying Logical Reasoning has twice as much importance.
You should aim to take at least four full-length practice tests before the day of the real exam comes around. The day before the test date, prepare every aspect of the LSAT day.
Ensure you have everything you need to take with you to the exam, know how you will get to the test center, and by what time. The more prepared you are for the day of the big test, the more you can focus on putting in your best performance to ace the LSAT. Similarly, if you are starting with a , do not aim directly for a , but set your major goal as a Besides, if your GPA is strong enough, you may not need much higher than that to be competitive at top law schools.
The second important consideration in creating your plan is to honestly assess how much time you are willing to spend on studying. I adopted an intense study regime because, despite working in a normal full-time position in the Army , I was willing to consistently carve out hours a week to devote to LSAT preparation.
This method is not for everyone. Many of us are very busy; we are busy because of our work, our travel, and our families. As you develop a plan for test preparation, be honest with yourself. How much time will you have each week to commit to LSAT prep?
Can you find a quiet place to sit for four hours and take a practice test? Just like going to the gym, you will only see results when you have been brutally honest with yourself and are unwilling to compromise. This is may be where test preparation courses come in: they can force you to meet once or twice a week for months and to sit for full-length practice tests in proctored situations. While test preparation courses may be costly and I chose not to use one, they offer proven results that can be worth your money.
Companies like Kaplan, Princeton Review, and ManhattanLSAT offer courses of varying lengths and intensity that can really help people manage a challenging schedule of test preparation. Check to see which companies use real LSAT materials and what resources come with your enrollment in the class books, practice exams, online materials, study sessions, etc. Your classroom teachers can recommend a study plan that will be appropriate for your current LSAT level.
I talked with a LSAT tutor at the beginning of my studying, and he pointed me in the right direction for self-study and gave me valuable insights into the test. The only people whom I think could forgo a full course are those who are aiming for a very high LSAT score, are already scoring well, and are confident that they can maintain a high pace of studying on their own.
I recommend that you make studying logic games the first priority of your LSAT study plan. Even though they count for only one quarter of your LSAT score, these questions are the most foreign to anything you have ever seen and are the section that on which you can improve the most. While it took me four months to reach that point, I can attest that this is true.
From November-January, I averaged wrong per LG section, in February I averaged 2 wrong, and from March-June I took sections per week and did not get one question wrong during that entire time. I read the book from cover to cover and made flash cards of its most important material to increase my recall speed.
In your study, I recommend you find a similar LG book for learning the LG basics and read it thoroughly. After you have taken a section, then comes the most critical element of all LSAT prep—you must review all the questions that you got wrong in order to know what to improve. In this review, I found it most useful to use the site 7sage.
As mentioned above, I took more than logic game sections, and my greatest gains came when I took LG sections on a near daily basis. To use the book for multiple practice tests, I photocopied the sections rather than writing in the book. You should feel free to redo previously solved LG sections, as I found they were very helpful for reinforcing deduction patterns on the second and third attempts.
As you are doing more LG sections, it is inevitable that you will feel frustrated by the slowness of your progress. When this happens, do not give up. This frustration happens to everyone, and you should embrace it as something to motivate you to seek the proper method to solve the problem.
I remember feeling defeated that for three months I saw little improvement, but at the end of that time I successfully sought new ways to solve the questions. So long as you are analyzing your mistakes, you will eventually make progress.
The practice test provides a home base, so to speak, for your study plan. Knowing how you will do on the test is foundational to your studies. Because you chose to read this article, you may have already taken the LSAT at least once. You may want to know how to get a or on the LSAT. You may be trying to go from a to or a to a As you already know, the LSAT requires hours of intense study.
Especially if you are trying to beat a previous score, you need dedicated time to develop your reasoning, logic, and communication skills. They are prompts that help you practice quick recall of LSAT concepts, vocabulary, and tools for solving problems.
Remember, you have only 35 minutes to complete each section on the LSAT. Improving your speed at understanding the problem and identifying solutions is one of the best ways to improve your LSAT score.
Some of your options are digital and some directly accompany textbooks and other study materials. All of them are helpful. Repeated exposure to the same concepts will help you create mental road markers that can accelerate recall. Besides using flashcards, developing strategies for different types of questions can help you solve LSAT logic games faster.
Most of the lectures you hear and texts you read will be an explanation of LSAT questions and answers. However, a significant portion of LSAT prep surprising to some students includes taking practice tests and getting answers wrong.
Because the LSAT is skill-based, you learn by doing. Study programs that promote their ability to help you get a high score on the LSAT include dozens of versions of the exam to practice on. This will help expose your own specific strengths and weaknesses. Get comfortable with your weakness. There will be some areas—whether logic reasoning, analytical reasoning, or reading comprehension—that will come more naturally to you than others.
Focus on areas where you stumble. Ask questions and wrestle through until you get a breakthrough. Keep in mind, as you prepare, that you cannot binge for the LSAT. These skills take time to develop. You may be studying for two, three, or even six months for the LSAT exam.
0コメント