LSAT strategy

This entry is coming to you from a futon in Berkeley. I flew in from Phoenix this afternoon, and I’ll be spending Monday at Cal’s J-School. I’m staying at a grad student’s studio apartment, and we had a brief but reassuring conversation about the LSAT. Although she’s a grad journalism student at UCB now, the Georgetown alumna hammered in the following:

1. If I am taking the LSAT in June and studying now in April, that’s good and I should be fine. What’s important is that I study effectively (quality trumps quantitity) and that I don’t psych myself out.

2. What works: Taking one to two diagnostic exams each week, so I get used to concentrating for four hours straight.

3. What else works: Practicing the games frequently.

So far, in terms of study strategies, I have been slogging through high-difficulty args and reading sections and then trying to clip along when I time myself. This has reaped encouraging results, but I think the grad student is right. I do need to start building endurance. And through diagnostic (read: practice) exams, I can build my argument and reading comprehension skills.

I have the resources (practice books, practice bubble sheets, pencils, analog watch, etc.) to take a diagnostic. So I should probably get on that. Hold me accountable to this, readers. A diagnostic exam by next Monday.

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