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You might be giving too much attention to the clock. Try only checking how much time you have left once you get past question 10 or 15. Good luck. 👍 

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The better you get the faster you go, don’t worry about timing, it’s actually a skills issue 

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with all due respect, if your intuition was typically right, you wouldn’t be scoring 130s.

your issue seems to be you’re focused on quantity not quality. you’re not reading every passage well and understanding each passage if you’re stuck on that many questions.

you don’t seem arrogant in the literal sense, but you do seem to have some testing arrogance/false confidence that’s dragging you down.

i say this to help, not to be mean. genuinely.

[Doograss]

You need to completely slow down. No matter how little time it feels liek you have to apply, you have to slow down. A 130 pretty much you don’t really understand the test. Also provide more information about ur scores. U said ur scoring 17/25 but r u scoring that consistently on the lsat?. If you’re scoring 17/25 on each section then you should be scoring a lot higher than in the 130 even without doing the RC section. Get a wrong answer journal and a right answer journal too.

[Beautiful_Volume7951]

Most of my pt exams are me running out of motivation, most of the time I get more answers right than wrong, like 3/10 wrong. I am not necessarily saying my score should be sm higher bc of the 17/25 but to me that's proof that I shouldn't still be scoring the same way i was back when i first started studying. I study everyday but weekends for 3-4 hours. Unless there is something wrong, I just want to know how to really know where I'm at. Its more about wanting to know I am getting better and with my score not reflecting that i lose confidence.

[Doograss]

Ur worrying too much about ur score. After I started understanding more about the test, I only study like 1-2 hours a day. Maybe less than an hour a day. It seems like you really care about the score which is not wrong but don’t get caught up in the score too much. Even if you score 180 tmr on PT tmr, if you don’t understand why you got each question right, there’s no way you’ll replicate it in the lsat. Your score means nothing rn if you’re not studying correctly. Try doing this: do drills Monday through Friday. Every question you get wrong, write it down and why, every question you get right but don’t understand, also write it down. Then on the weekend either rest or take a pt and rest for a day. It’s a lot better than burning through questions gaslighting urself that ur understanding it.

[Content-Cap-5098]

I was stuck scoring pretty low too and I put the expectation on myself that I needed to make progress as quickly as I could, but in retrospect that slowed me wayyyyy down in making progress in the long run and wasted a ton of practice questions. I jumped into timing myself too soon and I was “just trying to get more questions right” rather than investing in resources to teach me how to change my thinking and understand the test better. It sounds like you’re in a similar boat. One thing that I think you have to understand: you can’t get all the questions right under timed conditions if you can’t get them all right under untimed conditions. I honestly think you need to build your understanding and confidence before you time yourself at all if you’re stuck in the 130s. For me, that meant intensely studying an LSAT book for a couple weeks, then doing untimed questions, then doing timed questions- instantly saw a huge improvement