There are two main ways I see people getting value out of these walkthroughs: You could just check them when you’re reviewing questions you missed, like you would with any other LSAT explanations.
If you’re stuck and need a new approach, or if you’re just starting out with limited prep time
Then I strongly recommend you start by working through some without trying the questions first. It’s like on-the-job training for the LSAT. As you walk through your first full PrepTest with me, you’ll see me demo the same approach on every passage and every question. This is the approach I use to pick all the right answers, and it’s the approach I coach my private clients to adopt lawyering skills
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If you go down that road, please just make sure that you’re not only checking to make sure you “get it”. The reasoning behind the right and wrong answers can be hella illuminating, but it doesn’t typically help us fix our individual mistakes.
That’s what I’m going for here. The other thing to try is to walk through questions without trying them first. Get LawHub (or another app where you access official PrepTests) pulled up, so you can do the driving when it comes time to highlight, eliminate, and choose answers.
We’re training ourselves to avoid mistakes by being super consistent about sticking to an approach that keeps us focused on precisely what we’re being asked for, and not getting distracted by all the other words flying around on the screen.
That approach is baked in to every walkthrough. And it’s how I coach pretty much all my private clients up to their target scores.
Prompt: Which one of the following?
Difficulty: 🌕🌕🌕🌑
How will the right answer fit in terms of support and conclusion?
Only the right answer will…
Highlight the main conclusion in the passage, if there is one:
this must be the conclusion
Speaker: [BACKGROUND]. However, [SUPPORT]. So [CONCLUSION].
Call out a common pattern if you’re gonna recap one at the bottom.
Map the wording of the answers to the wording of the passage:
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
(E)
() is the correct answer.
Common pattern/s in this question:
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