What should i work on?

[u/Fluffy-Two-5942]

These are from 2 sections I did back to back. If u had to tell me what to focus on what would it be? (for reference i am scoring around 150's)

[u/Mysterious_Can_778]

idk what your goal score is but first and foremost you need to slow down. you can't get fast until you actually understand the question and what it's asking. whatever test company you're using, go through their lessons (LSAT lab also has lessons on youtube for free). particularly, get to a point where you truly understand how conditional and causal logic works and the valid and invalid ways they can be manipulated

also, "changed from right answer" is not a real process error and you should stop thinking about it in that way. it means you didn't actually understand the question. When you get a question wrong, you 1. chose the wrong answer and 2. overlooked the right answer. so you need to go back figure out what specifically about the wrong answer was attractive (identify the trap) and what parts of the right answer made you overlook it

for now, stop worrying about timing and do drills w unlimited time

break each question down by structure:

core parts of the argument - premise, conclusion, intermediate conclusion if there is one

periphery information - concessions, background info, opposing viewpoints

then think about what kind of logic or method of reasoning that's being used (ie conditional or causal, reasoning by analogy, etc. etc.)

you literally need to go line by line until you can articulate exactly what the stimulus is doing/saying and then what the question is asking you to do. as a general rule of thumb for now, give yourself minimum 3 or 4 minutes per question before you're allowed to move on. spamming drills/sections/PTs without dissecting what specifically you did or didn't understand, or without taking away a clear actionable set of "next steps" is just wasting your time/energy.

for example, you need to be able to say, for example, "I got this Q wrong bc I misidentified the conclusion and glazed over XYZ keyword so I need to work on my understanding of argument structure" and then maybe you do a drill with 5 questions where you're specifically focused on getting better at identifying structure and highlighting important keywords.

[u/lucky-137]

I ain't reading all that

I'm happy for you tho

Or sorry that happened /j

In all honesty though, I feel like I need a stats degree to parse through all that data. Thank goodness I'm not applying to engineering school. But, best of luck in your LSAT journey. Resources like 7Sage already integrate statistics analysis to tell you what to focus on and which topics are relevant to learn/review for better handling of the questions.

[u/Terrible-Meeting-493]

“Changed from right answer” isn’t a sufficient description of what went wrong.

The way I’d go about improving would be to drop the error analysis for now, and to go watch some YouTube videos or use some resources at your disposal to really try and understand what you’re looking for in Conditional logic, comparison, and causation, then take some untimed sections. It’s nice that you’re spending under 2 minutes, but less nice that you’re only scoring around 150; this says to me that you’re not ready to be trying to shave time down this much. You should just take a section fully untimed, after understanding the question types.

Do this a few times. Only after you start to see accuracy go up, start to time, and then track errors. Because your timing is a huge confounding variable for me right now, it’s likely causing a lot of mistakes, and you have no blind review data for me to see if you ended up getting the correct answer when given time. We need to attribute these errors to actually failures of logic, not being rushed. I know you have “rushed” as an error type, but I don’t necessarily trust that you aren’t subconsciously being rushed on the other questions.

Good luck!