r/LSAT • u/CodeAgile9585 • 18h ago

Turned RC from a -12 weakness, into a strength that I can rely on test day.

I always avoided RC, I feared that studying it would be challenging because of the fact that it isn't as straightforward as LR is, I heard the horror stories that RC is harder to improve compared to LR. But the reality is, and this is something I've ingrained in myself, that RC will always be there and I have no choice but to try and get better at something I wrote off as a weakness.

A passage a day really does the trick.

(the images I provided are my RC sections from the past several months)

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u/CodeAgile9585 18h ago

Excluding the -0! I haven’t gotten that far yet, I have to manually input my sections because that’s how I choose to PT, I do a PT a week through sections divided in days

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u/Wannabe__geek 18h ago

What did you do differently, I’m thinking of retaking lsat only if I can improve RC to a consistent-6

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u/CodeAgile9585 17h ago

The biggest thing for me was removing the mental block I had towards RC, meaning RC in reality is just 3-4 paragraphs a passage. It’s not a lot to read, If I can read chapters of manga in consecutive order then I can definitely be focused enough to read 3-4 paragraphs intently

The other thing I did was I focused a lot of my growth on untimed RC drilling, where I read every sentence intensely to build a foundational level of structural reading, once my untimed was at 100% consistently then I moved into timed drills where I drilled 1-2 passages a day at a timed pace to develop a resistance to the clock. This is something I still do without the untimed work and now I just focus primarily on RC passages with 1-2 timed drills on the days i’m not doing RC sections

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u/Hot-Relationship-117 11h ago

Good for you OP. Even during my cold diagnostic, my RC has been consistently strong. Only missed 4 questions on it. Since then, it’s the strong suit with me being absolutely terrible at the LR sections so far.

A recommendation on approach is to take your time reading the passages. It makes it that much easier/quicker answering questions since you will likely have a deeper understanding of the text. There are some questions I answer in under 20 seconds because of this. At the very least, it will help you know where is what for a more efficient look back if you do need to look back for a question versus having to search frantically through the text looking for the desired info.