LR Drill or Individual Sections

[mattm]

Should i be focusing my LR Prep on drilling ( Cambridge packets) or should my focus instead be on individual Lr Sections from PT"s ?

I'm currently missing on average 3-5 per section....but when I go back to review sections at times I sometimes find difficulties reasoning why the incorrect answer I eliminated was wrong

I have a Kaplan book that has LR questions organized by type but I may purchase the LR packets in addition.

I see pros and cons of each strategy

Drilling: By drilling I would get much more information on specific question types.....but i may lose the skills on the other LR question types...


Individual sections : helpful in that it gives a mixed review of all the question types I will see...but maybe too broad and not specific enough

( I am taking the Dec LSAT but want to use these three and a half months wisely )

[David Boyle]

Should i be focusing my LR Prep on drilling ( Cambridge packets) or should my focus instead be on individual Lr Sections from PT"s ?

I'm currently missing on average 3-5 per section....but when I go back to review sections at times I sometimes find difficulties reasoning why the incorrect answer I eliminated was wrong

I have a Kaplan book that has LR questions organized by type but I may purchase the LR packets in addition.

I see pros and cons of each strategy

Drilling: By drilling I would get much more information on specific question types.....but i may lose the skills on the other LR question types...


Individual sections : helpful in that it gives a mixed review of all the question types I will see...but maybe too broad and not specific enough

( I am taking the Dec LSAT but want to use these three and a half months wisely )

Dear mattm:

I have nothing to say about Cambridge or Kaplan.
However, maybe a mixture of the different methods you mention above, may be helpful. (You can try it out at least)
E.g., you can

1) do drills, but also

2) do individual sections; not to mention

3) doing whole tests, which will have at least two Logical Reasoning sections (sometimes three).

By doing this mixture, you will hit a lot of different points.

Hope this helps,
David

[mattm]

Okay thanks!

In your personal opinion do you next year think I could benefit from a prep course if necessary?…..I registered for a Kaplan course and thought it helped but did not hear about the PowerScore Bibles?PowerScore course until later on in my prep after I registered for the course….I decided to take advantage of the Higher score guarantee Kaplan offered instead of signing up for a new course so i could save money for prep materials to improve my chances for the Fall 2016 cycle if i decided to wait until then

I'm currently scoring in the low 160's and while that is solid….I still feel like I have room to grow in my prep because as mentioned earlier, sometimes when I cross out an incorrect answer it can take me a while to do see why I crossed out the wrong answer upon review….even though Im scoring high I think a prep course may still be useful

Based off the last test it was very indicative of my strengths and weakness …..83% right on both LR sections and LG only 52% RC ……for a total of 160 ( my RC isn't usually that low but is significantly lower than the other two)

[David Boyle]

Okay thanks!

In your personal opinion do you next year think I could benefit from a prep course if necessary?…..I registered for a Kaplan course and thought it helped but did not hear about the PowerScore Bibles?PowerScore course until later on in my prep after I registered for the course….I decided to take advantage of the Higher score guarantee Kaplan offered instead of signing up for a new course so i could save money for prep materials to improve my chances for the Fall 2016 cycle if i decided to wait until then

I'm currently scoring in the low 160's and while that is solid….I still feel like I have room to grow in my prep because as mentioned earlier, sometimes when I cross out an incorrect answer it can take me a while to do see why I crossed out the wrong answer upon review….even though Im scoring high I think a prep course may still be useful

Based off the last test it was very indicative of my strengths and weakness …..83% right on both LR sections and LG only 52% RC ……for a total of 160 ( my RC isn't usually that low but is significantly lower than the other two)

Hello mattm,

"You can call me biased", but I think a course, say, a PowerScore course, and/or individual tutoring, could be quite helpful. Many people admire PowerScore course materials (e.g., the various "Bibles" for Logical Reasoning etc.), but to actually learn from a PowerScore teacher/tutor with a 99th percentile score, can be even better than just reading the books.
Here is a link to some PowerScore LSAT resources: http://www.powerscore.com/lsat/index.cfm.
Good luck, and good studying,

Hope this helps,
David