LSAT Test Strategy
The first mistake I made in the second sample LSAT test was not reading the instructions. I assumed there would be 25 questions, as in the first sample test, but there were 27. Sounds like a trivial difference, but it took ever second of the 35 minutes allowed for me to finish those 27 questions, and it made me question my linear test taking strategy. I'm beginning to suspect that the best way to take the LSAT would be to skip the questions that make you hesitate too long, maybe noting your best guess off to the side somewhere for in case time starts running out, and moving on.
I went 24 for 27 in the second section, but I had a real scare when all three of my wrong answers came in a row: 6,7,8. Two of them were related to the same long reading section, and one came from the next reading section. In the latter case, I actually had the answer correct, kept worrying about it, and changed it to the wrong answer. Oh the joys of working in pen. Later in the test I changed two wrong answers into right answers on further consideration, so the strategy of second guessing myself has me up one so far.
I'm beginning to get the feeling that their prompt to choose the BEST answer when more than one correct answer exists is just an insurance policy against protests. I haven't really seen an instance yet where more than one answer could be declared technically correct, given the wording of the questions. The reason I see this as being important is the best LSAT strategy may be to mark down the correct answer as soon as you encounter it, and move on to the next question without reading the rest of the choices. Often times, that's where I seem to get confused, especially when an incorrect answer matches the truth of the reading sample, but not the question they are asking.
The LSAT so far strikes me as a very literal test. The question is the king. The correct answer to "Which of the following most closely agrees with the author's views" may be, "Beer is good," rather than, "The neoreconstructionist movement arose not because the demilitarization of the federalist proletariat but in spite of it." Occam's razor is looking like a good way to shave points in the LSAT competition.
I went 24 for 27 in the second section, but I had a real scare when all three of my wrong answers came in a row: 6,7,8. Two of them were related to the same long reading section, and one came from the next reading section. In the latter case, I actually had the answer correct, kept worrying about it, and changed it to the wrong answer. Oh the joys of working in pen. Later in the test I changed two wrong answers into right answers on further consideration, so the strategy of second guessing myself has me up one so far.
I'm beginning to get the feeling that their prompt to choose the BEST answer when more than one correct answer exists is just an insurance policy against protests. I haven't really seen an instance yet where more than one answer could be declared technically correct, given the wording of the questions. The reason I see this as being important is the best LSAT strategy may be to mark down the correct answer as soon as you encounter it, and move on to the next question without reading the rest of the choices. Often times, that's where I seem to get confused, especially when an incorrect answer matches the truth of the reading sample, but not the question they are asking.
The LSAT so far strikes me as a very literal test. The question is the king. The correct answer to "Which of the following most closely agrees with the author's views" may be, "Beer is good," rather than, "The neoreconstructionist movement arose not because the demilitarization of the federalist proletariat but in spite of it." Occam's razor is looking like a good way to shave points in the LSAT competition.
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