LSAT Tips

Tip 1: Today’s tip is short and sweet, but powerful! Ready? Learn from your mistakes. When you take your practice tests, don’t just grade them to see what score you achieved. Look at what you missed. Copy the problems down. Why did you miss them? When you take other practice tests, are you missing the same type of problems? Rather than getting discouraged, use this as competitive intelligence and study those type of problems hard. Application of this tip will lead to fruit.

Tip 2: 

Want to control your own destiny on the LSAT? Here’s a tip- practice with your watch. I know many of you, like myself, would be lax with this point, but using a timer ruthlessly in your practice will let you know how to pace yourself, how long certain sections and questions are taking you and exactly how much time you have left.

Add to that the fact that at the test is timed, controlled and is a high stakes test in which you will feel the pressure of the minutes and seconds drifting away, anything you can do to prepare you for the pressure ahead of time will only help your performance when it really matters.

Tip 3: 

Tip: Begin with the goal in mind. (Read the question and the answer choices first).

Simply put, the LSAT is not an open ended test. Questions are not in short answer or essay from (apart from the writing sample). Chunks of information are presented and after the chunk of information  questions are asked with various answers to choose from.

Get a jump on the test by reading the question and answer possibilities first BEFORE reading the chunk of information. This will allow you to know what you are looking for, thus saving you time and allowing you to wade through uneccesary fluff.

Put this into practice as you take the test and watch your efficiency and thus your score rise