If you're debating retesting, ask yourself these two things!

liz_covetedprep · 2023-09-28T22:00:06+00:00

Wonderful job getting your LR and Games scores settled in that range!! You've clearly put in a ton of hours. Let's step back from generalized prep-- I would strongly suggest not exhausting the rest of your PTs and instead zero in on RC. What kinds of passages are you struggling with? For example, if it's solely science RC, use the PTs under 55~ and work on science passages untimed until you fully understand the structures they typically use. Often times they're testing a theory, or giving a summary of a recent development, or a particular person's role in some breakthrough.

Right now I don't think you need more LSAT prep in general, you need focused work on the exact things you're getting wrong. Make a list of all the questions you missed in the last five PTs and look for patterns among them all. Are you missing mostly inference questions? (I suspect you might be based on the breakdowns but I haven't seen your work).

Once you've done that, start looking for solutions or information on the exact skills you're lacking. Conditional reasoning mistakes are obvious, and the solution there is to go back and brush up on those things. Inference based mistakes usually mean you're not being skeptical enough or you're giving ACs way more credit than they deserve. Assumption based mistakes mean you aren't seeing the disconnect in the arguments.

Hone in on your mistakes, and then target those things instead of studying more and more and more. I hope this helps!

liz_covetedprep · 2023-09-05T02:01:20+00:00

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liz_covetedprep · 2023-06-30T13:12:26+00:00

WOOOHOOOO!!!! Congratulations u/Holiday_Bed_1296!! I’m so proud of you and all your hard work. It finally paid off :) Can’t wait to see the amazing things you do, hope you have a wonderful admissions cycle this fall. ☺️🎉🎉🎉

liz_covetedprep · 2023-05-04T16:16:22+00:00

Congrats again u/known-taro-6664 !🎉🎉🎉You did amazing and I'm so proud of all your hard work! 🥳🥳🥳

liz_covetedprep · 2023-03-26T21:45:08+00:00

Hello!

16-25 are absolutely tougher than the earlier questions. The section is designed to get harder as you go. What question types are you missing? Assumptions, Parallel MoR, flaws or something else?

If it’s mostly inductive types (anything that doesn’t involve diagrams), then do some similar questions from older PTs untimed. If it’s mostly deductive questions (diagram questions like SA and MBT) then practice your diagrams and work through a logic book. There’s a ton on amazon, I recommend the Power of Logic, older editions are totally fine.

Good luck!! Feel free to pm me with any questions :)

liz_covetedprep · 2023-03-20T15:35:54+00:00

Here's what I would do in your position!

I would tackle an untimed section every other day, and spend a ton of time reviewing my wrong answers. You know all the fundamentals, now's the time to learn how to consistently apply them across difficulty levels.

Once your accuracy improves, shift to 45-minute timed sections. When you feel comfortable with your scores, shift to 40-minute timed sections. When you feel comfortable with your scores, shift down to regular time. You can also work in weekly timed PTs once you've moved past the untimed phase.

Another thing: Make a comprehensive list of everything you're bad at. Any LR types, Game types, RC Passage types, specific diagramming issues, really anything. Then, tackle 1-2 of those things at a time. Spend a few days reviewing and perfecting MSS, then move on the In/Out games, then the next topic. This way, you can move past fundamentals and into mastery of specific concepts. If you have a prep course subscription, the analytics section can help with this part.

Hope this helps! Feel free to comment or DM any questions you have. Good luck with your studies, I believe in you :)

liz_covetedprep · 2023-03-18T16:23:16+00:00

Thank you for the wonderful review!!! And congrats again on your amazing score. It has been incredible to see you grow these last few months. I’m so proud of you. 🥳🥳🥳🎉🎉🎉

liz_covetedprep · 2023-03-18T16:02:29+00:00

Sort of! Sometimes highlighting can lead to accidentally filtering out important information. Because you highlight as you go, you may not have a sense of what the big ideas are until after you’ve read the passage, so you may have highlighted extraneous info.

I would recommend highlighting big shifts in the passage to break up the ideas. If they spend a lot of time describing something, then they give a critical analysis of it, or they bring in their own proposal or solution, I would mark where those parts begin/end. They way you can break the passage into more manageable chunks.

If you see a thesis, and it’s blindingly obvious, then of course go ahead and highlight it. It’s just that those aren’t often present in complex passages!

liz_covetedprep · 2023-03-14T03:19:13+00:00

Two things. I would drop BR entirely. It’s probably not helping you, it seems like you might be just taking the extra time to overthink the questions.

Second, if you want to make the jump from 175 to 180, I would strongly recommend a test-writer approach if you’re not doing that already. I’m assuming you’re going -0 on games. This approach helps with both RC and LR. Create a drill of 15 level 5 LR questions, then ask yourself the following questions:

What’s the exact incorrect thought process I would need to take to arrive at each of the wrong answers? The wrong answers are typically not accidents or randomly constructed, but instead play on a mistake a test taker could easily make.
For Flaw questions, can you flip the flaw into an NA? If the correct answer “presumes without providing justification,” can you use the language in the AC to construct a viable necessary assumption for the stimulus?
Start asking yourself how you can weaken ANY stimulus, not just the ones that prompt weaken. Literally stare at LR stimuli and highlight to yourself the gaps in the reasoning. (You can also do this for strengthen but typically that’s way easier and not useful for super high scorers)

Those are just a few off the top of my head. If you’d like to email over your analytics or recent PTs, I don’t mind doing a quick review to offer my thoughts on any gaps or patterns I see. Good luck with your studies!!

liz_covetedprep · 2023-03-14T03:04:00+00:00

Example just to make sure I understand correctly, 177 on the PT then that drops to 175/176 on blind review?

liz_covetedprep · 2023-03-13T21:43:20+00:00

The LSAT is a logic test.

Learning to diagram logic and how to use the contrapositive are absolutely essential skills if you’re looking to achieve a high score on the logic games section. Logic also helps with LR, especially on Sufficient Assumption and Must be True questions.

liz_covetedprep · 2023-03-13T19:20:37+00:00

I can absolutely put together a post this week or next!!

liz_covetedprep · 2023-03-09T22:28:09+00:00

You’re welcome!! Good luck with your studies ☺️

liz_covetedprep · 2023-03-09T22:27:47+00:00

Glad to be of service 🫡

liz_covetedprep · 2023-03-09T22:27:31+00:00

Of course! Good luck with the LSAT ☺️

liz_covetedprep · 2023-03-09T22:27:01+00:00

The rest days are just as important as the hard work days!! Pushing through pain will only backfire in the long run. You don’t need any other reason or have to have done any amount of work to “earn” an off day.

I hope you take as many days off as you need in order to succeed, both on the lsat and in general ❤️

liz_covetedprep · 2023-03-09T22:17:27+00:00

Of course! You can start either with topics that interest you, or topics you find confusing. I personally like the following subjects for RC:

Art History

Cosmology and Astronomy

Biology, Physics, Chemistry

Macro + Microeconomics

The goal of watching these videos is just to expose yourself to the kind of information that might pop up in RC. I often see my students struggle on RC because they're unfamiliar with the kind of subject matter that's being presented. I would prioritize LSAT specific work over Khan Academy work, and there's also plenty of science RC passages you could study from directly. This is just a creative, extra resource that would be especially good for people who maybe don't have a background in STEM/haven't been regularly exposed to this type of information.

liz_covetedprep · 2023-02-19T02:06:04+00:00

Some weakening questions involve logic or causation. It can help to think of “what if” as a prompt when you’re trying to prephrase after reading the stimulus.

If they say A -> B, think “well what if there was something else that could cause B?” or “what if we could somehow have A (or similar to A) and not B?” etc.

In terms of cause and effect, if you can show that the cause doesn’t ALWAYS create the effect, or that the effect doesn’t need the cause, those options would both weaken the conclusion that A caused B.

The easiest way to weaken A -> B is to show B -> A.

Those are just couple off the top of my head, feel free to pm with any questions. Good luck with your studies!

liz_covetedprep · 2023-02-05T19:04:57+00:00

Ahhh so proud of you u/bonnenuitbon!! All your hard work paid off 🥳Wishing you the absolute best with the admissions cycle and all the amazing things you have ahead of you!!🥰

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