In the face of discouragement

I took another practice exam on Friday afternoon. I scored two points lower than the last time.

This is discouraging, especially after I write “Let’s aim for a higher score next time!”

However, I remember the last time I was taking weekly practice exams — in January, in my LSAT prep class. My score dipped EIGHT points. So while getting a lower score is not fun, scoring two points below is not as bad as scoring eight points below your highest score.

I’ve since made this site my home page, so I can contemplate it every time I check my e-mail or icanhascheezburger.com.

I crave immediate results. Tomorrow, I plan on taking my “pacing practice” book to Love Library and going through a lengthy but realistically measured set of drills.

To explain what I will be doing: Each section of the LSAT is 35 minutes long. The categories are logical reasoning, reading comprehension and games. For my “drills,” I will do three practice sections of each category (with ample breaks) and hope that I improve with each section. It will be a long afternoon, but provided I dress in layers, bring a water bottle and pack snacks and chewing gum, I can do this. My goals, more than anything, are to clip along (it’s really easy to get either bogged down or swept away by the all the dense and often engaging text) and to get fewer and fewer incorrect answers with each drill. Because that’s really what the LSAT score boils down to: how many questions you answered correctly.

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