LSAT

[Futureattorney1234]

Hello everyone,
My name is Monique. I am writing because I am currently trying to study for the LSAT. I am in a program and I am required that I take the August LSAT. I know I am not going to meet my goal score which is a 161 or 162. I am writing because I have the power score bibles logical reasoning and reading comprehension. I have read over the chapter must be true questions several times and it seems I am not understanding the material. When I drill these questions, I keep getting them wrong. Any suggestions? I also have moderate obstructive sleep apnea which is making it difficult for me to understand.

[Luke Haqq]

Hi Monique!

Thanks for sharing about your situation. It's good that you are concentrating on must be true questions. While it's important that you understand all the different question types, it's also the case the must be true questions are the type that occur the most frequently.

One suggestion is to be on the alert for conditional reasoning and be prepared to diagram it. Hopefully diagramming doesn't take you too long, but it can go a long way in helping you arrive at the right answers. Not all must be true questions have conditional reasoning in them (for example, there are lots of must be true questions in reading comprehension that don't involve conditional reasoning), but quite often they do involve such reasoning. Being able to see the reasoning diagrammed out as conditional reasoning can help you spot inferences, such as chains of conditional statements that can be joined together.

Lastly, you mention that you've read over the chapter addressing must be true questions several times. I just wanted to make sure that doing so doesn't come at the cost of exploring other chapters. If that is the case, that is, if you're stuck on that chapter and haven't moved beyond it, I think it could be quite helpful to move past it and perhaps return to it later. Perhaps understanding other question types will also help you appreciate the unique aspects of must be true questions.

[cindymik]

Hello.

I've taken the June LSAT and scored a 157. So far in order of least to most recent these have been my scores on PT: 157, 161, 161, 158, 157 (on actual LSAT), 157). I'm getting really worried about scoring the same as I did in June test on the August LSAT. Does anyone know if this looks bad to law schools?