A common mistake in LSAT preparation

February 2, 2009 at 8:10 am | Posted in Answering Questions Faster | Leave a comment

Many LSAT takers I encounter in San Francisco and around the Bay Area believe that all the need to succeed at the LSAT and get a high score is learn a few techniques and tricks and they will be on their way toward a 170 or higher score. The reality, however, is that while the “tricks” are important to learn and incorporate into solving the LSAT problems, time and practice are essential to improving the score.

Obviously, LSAT is just as much about solving questions quickly as it is about solving them correctly.  And speed only comes with experience, with practice with “mileage” if you will.  Solving LSAT questions faster is like a muscle that you need to train after learning and feel comfortable using all the effective techniques.

This is especially true with regards to games sections. There is a limited amount of kind of games that you will encounter on the lsat, but to be able to solve 4 games in 35 minutes as required on the LSAT, you have to be thoroughly familiar with how to go about solving each kind.  This ability comes after solving many games of each kind, and there is no shortcut to this process.