As I've mentioned on a number of prior occasions, some of the most important weapons you have in your battle with the LSAT are your mental strength, confidence, and overall outlook. Of course, your processing speed and reasoning powers are critical, but I look at them as only half of the equation. If you process quickly and understand argumentation, that will take you a long way, but if you are also scared of the exam and don't fully trust yourself, you will fail to reach your potential. Because of this, I pay close attention to developments in the field of psychology. An article in last … [Read more...]
How Practice LSATs Can Help You Decide to Keep or Cancel Your Score
Taking practice LSATs can do a lot for your test preparation. We talk about how to take PTs to replicate the testing experience as closely as possible here. While taking and analyzing PTs should be an integral part of everyone’s test preparation, we beg the question. Are you using each practice test to their full potential? Meaning, are learning everything you can from each PT? Certainly identifying your strengths and weaknesses and adapting your study plan to that is key. However, there is a valuable exercise you can use in conjunction with them that students underutilize. It’s a simple 3 … [Read more...]
Score Dip 2 Weeks Before the Test
In this LSAT Forum Post of the Day, our team of senior instructors offer advice on what to do when you receive a score lower than your average in the last few weeks before you take the exam. Here's a quick preview. But be sure to check out the full thread to read the entire explanation our team provided:The Forum posts selected for this series are chosen because they have a universal quality to them. In other words, we’ve selected posts that contain information that can be used by test takers of any background and score level. So, although the specific question posed by the students … [Read more...]
How to Treat a Low Score
When attempting early practice LSATs under timed conditions, many students come away extremely discouraged with their results. This is understandable, of course, as your LSAT score is the key to attending a great school, and a poor performance can hold you back more than any other factor. So how should you view low scores early in your prep, and what can you do to get past them?In this LSAT Forum Post of the Day, PowerScore Course Developers Jon Denning and Nikki Siclunov help a student who's struggling with low scores determine what to do next in terms of test confidence, preparation … [Read more...]
My LSAT Score Just Dropped… Now What?
Especially if you have an LSAT Test Administration coming up, a drop in your practice test scores can be demoralizing. Was all this work for nothing? What if it happens again?The fact, is, it didn't: it happened on a practice test. It may not seem that way, but it's one of the best things that can happen to you while prepping for the test. While getting an awesome score on your practice test can give you an important confidence boost, it has little pedagogical value. A 180 is all about bragging rights: it teaches you nothing. By contrast, a 142 says little about your potential, but … [Read more...]