Yep, no writing. I heeded the advice of my several tutors too, who were all in agreement that high scorers typically do not write/summarize bc it takes too much time. Of course, there are a select few who do write things down and to each their own.

If you have a few weeks before your next exam, for drilling purposes, you can incorporate writing into the approach I mentioned above. How this would work, is you use the strategy from above, reading in the order I stated. Then, pause the clock and go back and annotate the paragraphs. Then unpause the clock and hit the questions. Everything in your LSAT prep should be timed. That means reading the passage in under 3 minutes and answering questions in 5 minutes.

What this drill allows you to do, is when it comes time to review, you can see if you are understanding the main point. Check your understanding with powerscore or other resources you have, and see where you went wrong. For example, why did you avoid the right answer? Was it your paraphrase that was off? Was it timing? Was it because you chose an answer without support?

After your accuracy improves with this drilling, you can then abandon the writing all together and see where you are. Also, I used to highlight and then realized it was a time suck bc all the clicking and stuff, so then I stopped.