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How I’d Score 170+ On The September and October LSATs
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All else being equal is better to apply to law school earlier rather than later, but all else is rarely equal and if giving yourself another month or two is going to let you achieve your fullest potential on the LSAT, better to wait and take it in September or October rather than August. For those who don't know me, my name is Steve Schwartz. I've been teaching the LSAT since 2005 and I personally increased my LSAT score from a 152 to a 175. Today I'm going to share with you how I would study if I was taking the September and/or the October LSATs and applying to law school this cycle. Now there are three major phases of LSAT prep, accuracy, pacing, and endurance and there are a little less than three months left at this point until you're going to take the September LSAT. So if I were you and I were taking the September LSAT, I would focus the remainder of month one on accuracy. I'd focus month two on pacing and I'd focus month three on endurance. Now accuracy comes down to drilling LSAT questions by type so that you can better understand the proper perspective from which to view each LSAT section and each LSAT question type. There are roughly 15 different types of logical reasoning questions alone, but you don't want to spend too much time drilling them and too much time focusing on accuracy because the LSAT is strictly timed and pacing is also incredibly important. So maybe you want to spend three weeks, four weeks focused on accuracy and you quickly want to shift gears to pacing, doing that grab bag of logical reasoning question types in the original context of a full practice section where you have that 35-minute time constraint with standard timing and that you'll be able to work on your pacing so that you're not running out of the time by the end of the section. You'll be flagging some questions, skipping them, coming back to them later. You want to develop at least a month to develop your rhythm when it comes to that. Now month three, the final month from early August until early September, you want to spend taking full practice tests ideally at least one or two per week so that you can work on your endurance that you're not getting tired by the end of section four just because it's section four. Ideally you want to do at least 10 full-length timed practice tests before the big day so that test day itself will feel like just another run through. Now I'll share my study plan for October in just a moment but before I do I wanted to let you know that if you're studying for the LSAT in September or October or beyond and you don't have a study plan, you should get one because it's extremely important that you orient your prep around your goal and that you're not leaving yourself to the whims of how you feel that day but rather you have some structure, you have some accountability and you're not getting too bogged down in drooling questions by type and you're not getting too bogged down in taking full length practice tests. You want the full spectrum of both drilling and pacing and endurance so that you're on track for test day and you're building up as you go. At LSAT we create for all of our students a personalized day-by-day study plans that you know what to do and what not to do every single day between now and whenever it is that you're actually taking the LSAT. If you're interested in finding out more and getting out one of our study plans to help you on your journey to 170 or above, you can check out the links below the video to find out more and to book a call with me my team, we'd be glad to help you out. Now if you're taking the LSAT in October of course you have an additional month a bit more time to help you achieve your fullest potential on the LSAT. So again I'm still going to recommend for you accuracy, pacing and endurance but I want you to lengthen the amount of time that you devote to taking those full length practice tests because you don't want to cram them in doing two three a week if you're busy with work or with school. If you could allow yourself six to eight weeks to do those full length practice tests, you're going to be building up your endurance more, you'll be working on your pacing, you'll be able to spend more time reviewing your mistakes because every question that you get wrong is an opportunity to learn something new. You don't want to just look at the answer key and say to yourself, oh man how could I have been so dumb? I won't make that mistake again and then sure enough, next test you take, you do in fact make that same mistake again. You need a structure for your review process, you need to get the review process out of your head and you got to write it down in a notebook or a journal or a mistake log of some kind. You got to talk it out with a tutor or a coach or a study buddy at least so that someone else is helping you clarify your thoughts and you're not going into the trap of using explanations as a crutch. At Elson Unplugged we have a framework for review called the Socratic Review Method to help you review better, to help you pinpoint exactly which mistakes you're making and why so that you can avoid making those same mistakes again. So we're helping you look in depth at the argument, the question stem, the answer choice is helping you pinpoint exactly where your mistakes stem from so that you can identify, focus on it, learn from it and course correct for your next practice test and of course before the big day itself. Anyway folks that's all for now, I hope you found this video helpful and in the meantime I'll wish you all the best and take care.