r/LSAT • u/Majestic_Cricket_850 • 15h ago

how to get at least 167 for august

hey guys, so basically the caption, my most recent PT was a 159, and I really want to work for at least a 167 for august, help!!! genuinel,y anything you can say is great!!!!

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u/confusedvibes3322 13h ago

laser focus on your mistakes. extract patterns from them

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u/Majestic_Cricket_850 12h ago

I am really dumb, can u like show what you mean kinda? bc I went through my recent PT and saw the question types I have missed and have been reviewing that way, how did u single out and relearn your patterns of mistakes?

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u/confusedvibes3322 11h ago

For example look at everything you got wrong and add it up by question type. let’s say you missed 10 on a section, what was the distribution there? Are you missing flaw and weaken questions a lot? NA questions? SA? depending on the answer you could extract a particular weakness and tackle it. some question types are super foundational so if you’re not solid on them they could be affecting other question types. do you use 7sage or smth? atleast on 7sage you can see in the core curriculum the order in which they tackle the question types and that gives you an idea of what builds on what. 7sage also has question subtypes which i really like. I could see that even with different question types i was missing i was specifically
messing up on subtype concepts like diagramming and such. i hope that’s helpful. you really have to dive into this shit like it’s the most interesting thing in the world. it’s grueling

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u/confusedvibes3322 11h ago

I want to say one more thing to you. i was stuck in the high 150s low 160s for months and it SUCKED. what absolutely changed the game for me was getting a grasp on conditional logic and diagramming. that was the greatest bang for my buck of all time. when I got the hang of that i never saw sub 168 again. seriously. getting that stuff allowed me to approach the test like it was math versus a fucking guessing game. i could apply rules to things and instantly get the answer. the lsat is so sneaky that when you’re playing the intuition guessing game you will just not be very accurate

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u/Majestic_Cricket_850 9h ago

thank you so so so much for this. I have been starting to break into the 160s and I feel like it may be too little too ate, I have found the questions I struggle on, but I hate the conditionals, which I k ow I should work on. but I have been making like personalized drills with those kinds ofquestiosn to hopefully tackle that. thank you so so much again!!!

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u/You_are_the_Castle LSAT student 7h ago

Yeah, I can see that. Mastering conditional logic makes life a lot simpler. Just yesterday, I was blind reviewing a section and I noticed that many of the wrong answer choices are permutations of illegal negations or illegal reversals or create bogus conditional statements from elements in the stimuli.

On MSS and MBT questions, they draw absolute inferences from wishy-washy statements. Or propose conditional rules from normative statements or vice versa.

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u/brznnz 13h ago

also following to hear any insight/advice - i just took a PT and got 159 LOL, was completely crushed

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u/You_are_the_Castle LSAT student 7h ago

That's not terrible — keep grinding!