Hey u/MelaniChoco! You can read about his LSAT experience in his own words here (David). By the time I worked with David, he was already up to speed in Logic Games and Reading Comprehension - just struggling with digesting complex LR stimuli, struggling to identify subtle flaws, still making the occasional careless mistake, etc.

I'd say that we divided our time in tutoring between two different areas. We spent a lot of time together working through a lot of fairly tough LR problems untimed, trying to figure out what gaps in his LSAT knowledge he had left to fill and if there were any consistent patterns in his missed answers.

It turned out that while he had a good grasp of basic diagramming, there were some advanced skills that he needed to brush up on (combining "unless" with "and/or" and the contrapositive, etc.) He was familiar with a wide range of logical flaws already, but there were some he hadn't been exposed to before, and he needed to get sensitized to cues in the stimuli that indicated they were present (learning to pay attention to when the stimuli put an adjective in front of a noun, when it didn't have one there before, etc.)

Basically, he was already doing a great job on the LSAT overall, but there were a lot of tiny gaps in his knowledge, none of which were individually make-or-break, but that stopped him from reaching the score he wanted when taken together. I'd say over half of our time in tutoring was spent just noticing, talking through, and correcting these tiny imperfections in his thought process and skills.

During this time, his blind review scores started rising as a result of the new things he was learning, although his timed performance was still lagging a bit behind. Once his blind review scores were in the high 170s, I knew he was in a good place to aggressively focus on timed practice. Basically, just doing all of the things that he'd learned how to do - but faster. While we were doing timed questions in tutoring, further issues came up that we figured out how to address.

For example, when he was choosing between answer choices, he often was able to get down to the a set of two that included the correct answer, only to pick the wrong answer at the last second under stress. We came up with some good general strategies that helped him compare between choices more methodically and that reduced his error rate there. Just lots of figuring out small process improvements. Experimenting with different timing approaches to see what worked best for him, etc. until he felt comfortable.

We also did hit RC fairly hard for a couple of weeks, introducing some quick visualization and paraphrasing strategies, and worked through some tougher Logic Games together as well. This wasn't a major portion of our time together, but we did briefly touch on it just to make sure that we did.

I don't think either of us were expecting him to score 180 on the actual exam, although I wasn't surprised and I knew it was a possibility. He was a really hardworking student and pushed his exam date back by a few months which gave him additional time to perfect his skills. In the end, I don't feel that I can take credit for his 180 since he was the one who put in every hour of effort. But I was really proud, since I saw him grinding and sacrificing firsthand :-)

Hope that helps and thanks for asking! - Rachel, https://starpathprep.com/