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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Apr 2017 16:31:44 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><b><i></i></b><span style="font-weight: 400;">Of all the standardized tests out there, the LSAT is perhaps the most intensely time-pressured. We all know the feeling of our hand shaking a little as we stare down at an entire unattempted Logic Game with only five minutes left on the clock. So students often ask me questions like, “When will I start to see improvements in my LSAT timing?” “Will it come with practice, or will I just kind of naturally start to go faster?”</span><span id="more-7231"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Those questions convey a passive approach toward LSAT timing: If I just keep studying, my timing will improve. Unfortunately, pacing on the LSAT doesn’t quite work that way. In order to become substantially faster, you need an </span><b>active</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> approach to improving your speed. You have to deliberately select strategies that you will use to improve your speed, embed them into your practice, and reflect on your pacing after each study session. Here are a few strategies to try:</span></p>
<h4><b>Practice your strategic guessing.</b></h4>
<p>Everyone taking the LSAT will encounter some questions that are basically like quicksand. They suck you in and take up all your time. If you don’t avoid them, you’ll spend forever there and miss out on the opportunity to answer other, easier questions. Plus, if you do stick around and try to answer that question, you’re not that likely to get it right, anyway. You need to get good at identifying which questions these are for you, and taking an educated guess in the most timely fashion possible. Here are two possible techniques to help you improve:</p>
<p><b>a. Classify questions by difficulty. </b>After a practice session on any part of the test, go back and label each question based on whether it was easy, challenging but do-able, or impossible for you. Jot down some notes on the characteristics that made the impossible ones so hard. Be on the lookout for those characteristics next time, and try to make a quicker decision to move on. (Of course, you may also want to study up on those challenging issues, so you can move those questions from the quicksand category to the do-able category!)</p>
<p><b>b. Use the 1 minute test. </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">During some of your practice sessions, set your phone to count down 1 minute for each question (or a little longer, like 1:30, if you find 1 minute to be too stressful). After that minute, if you are still working on the question, pause to ask yourself if you are on the right track or you still haven’t really gotten started. It’s perfectly find to spend some more time answering the question, but make sure it’s a conscious choice you make because you think you can get it right, not something you just get sucked into.</span></p>
<h4><b>Train yourself in the most efficient ways to approach each question.</b></h4>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A large part of improving your LSAT timing is being confident in your strategies for each type of question you encounter. Here are a few key time-saving maneuvers you should have down cold for each section of the test. You can use these as a checklist to see which time-saving strategies you’ve mastered, and which you need to practice.</span></p>
<p><b>a. Logic Games:</b></p>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Use your previous work to help you answer unconditional questions.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Use the rule-by-rule approach to orientation questions.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Master the steps of conditional questions: quick sketch diagram, methodically make connections to the rules, ask yourself “who’s left and what do I know about them?”</span></li>
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<p><b>b. Logical Reasoning:</b></p>
<ol>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Eliminate wrong answer choices as soon as you notice a glaring problem. You don’t have to read all the words of every answer choice!</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Look out for absolute language and “only” statements. Those should be the first things you verify about an answer choice!</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Rely heavily on the conclusion when answering assumption family questions. Many answer choices can be eliminated quickly because they don’t affect the conclusion or misrepresent it.</span></li>
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<p><b>c. Reading Comprehension:</b></p>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Adapt your note-taking strategy depending on the difficulty of the passage. If it’s easy for you to understand the main idea, you don’t need to spend a lot of time stopping and jotting. </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Like Logical Reasoning, look out for absolute language and “only” statements.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Verify answer choices selectively against the text—confirm or reject only your strongest candidates.</span></li>
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<h4><b>Repeat easy questions, games and passages.</b></h4>
<p>For many LSAT skills, you need to build automaticity in order to become faster. For example, in order to improve your LSAT timing on basic Ordering Games, you need to get better at the most common types of inferences that show up on the diagrams. One great way to do that is repeating a game multiple times. Each time you practice, time yourself. You’ll get faster as the moves you need to make become more automatic. And many of those moves will transfer to other Logic Games that you do in the future.</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The biggest thing to know about LSAT timing is that you can get faster, but it takes practice. You don’t become Usain Bolt by hoping your next run will be the fastest one ever, and you don’t get a 180 on the LSAT by hoping you’ll get faster with time. So get out there and practice your timing! </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">?</span></p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">How were you able to improve your LSAT timing? Tell us in the comments!</span></i></p>
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<p><b><i><img decoding="async" class="alignleft wp-image-7232 size-thumbnail" src="https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/lsat/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2017/04/allison-bell-150x150.png" alt="" width="150" height="150" /><em><strong><a id="bloglink" href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/instructors/allison-bell/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Allison Bell</a> is a Manhattan Prep Instructor who lives in the Washington, DC metro area.</strong> </em></i></b><i><em>Allison first encountered the LSAT while getting her Bachelor of Arts in English and history at Duke University. In college, she scored a 178 and very nearly applied to law school. In the end, she followed her true passion, teaching. Allison currently has the pleasure of being an eighth grade English teacher in Northern Virginia. As an LSAT teacher, she has the opportunity to blend her love for teaching with her passion for logical argument. </em></i><i><em><a id="bloglink" href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/lsat/classes/#instructor/31" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Check out Allison’s upcoming LSAT Complete Courses here</a>.</em></i></p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:47:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>A lot of folks struggle with timing on the LSAT.  Clearly, if the test were un-timed, we&#8217;d all find it a lot easier.  Since we have only 35 minutes per section, if you&#8217;re having trouble finishing on time, it&#8217;s important to address your pacing. There are several reasons folks struggle with pacing: 1. Not enough [&#8230;]</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A lot of folks struggle with timing on the LSAT.  Clearly, if the test were un-timed, we&#8217;d all find it a lot easier.  Since we have only 35 minutes per section, if you&#8217;re having trouble finishing on time, it&#8217;s important to address your pacing.</p>
<p>There are several reasons folks struggle with pacing:</p>
<p>1. <strong>Not enough full practice under time conditions.</strong> If you&#8217;re just starting out, your mind is probably not used to the pace at which it needs to work.  I know that I generally equate a good read with a slow read &#8212; but that simply doesn&#8217;t work for the LSAT.  You probably can speed up considerably by just telling yourself to speed up!  From now on, every problem you try should be done with a stopwatch.  Also make sure you&#8217;re throwing in full practice tests along the way.  Don&#8217;t wait until you&#8217;re done learning all your strategies to work on your speed.</p>
<p>2. <strong>Ineffective strategies.</strong> Some ways of tackling problems would work just fine if the LSAT were untimed but breakdown under time pressure.   For example, in logic games, writing out all the possible scenarios doesn&#8217;t work for the vast majority of games.  In reading comprehension, you simply do not have enough time to do a full re-read.   In logical reasoning, you can&#8217;t wait until you&#8217;ve read the question to start thinking critically about an argument you&#8217;ve already read &#8212; you need to be reading critically from the outset.</p>
<p>This problem turns up more frequently with folks who are not using a book to study with, though even those who are in a course can fall prey to this problem if they don&#8217;t do timed practice, which often forces them to realize that they must indeed use the strategies they&#8217;re learning about. <span id="more-68"></span></p>
<p>3. <strong>Lack of automaticity. </strong>There are some tough questions on the LSAT that are going to require more than the typical amount of time.  To &#8220;buy&#8221; this time, a significant number of questions must be relatively easy to do quickly.  To achive that, the plan of attack needs to be practiced until it doesn&#8217;t require a conscious initiation.  Some people think they should only focus on the questions that are difficult for them, but it&#8217;s also worth practicing solving the &#8220;easy&#8221; ones very quickly.  This will also help a great deal with the questions that would otherwise send you for a tailspin; knowing how to start and what to look for is crucial.</p>
<p>4. <strong>Test anxiety and poor time management.</strong> Unfortunately, some of those who would otherwise do very well on the LSAT score well below their potential because of test anxiety.  There are a lot of techniques for batttling this, ranging from desensitization (high-pressure practice tests) to meditation (deep calm breath while bubbling in . . .).  If you suffer from this type of anxiety, don&#8217;t wait until the last few weeks to work on this.  Incorporate it into your prep from day one.</p>
<p>As for basic time management, know your timing benchmarks and practice using them.  You can&#8217;t just say &#8220;I&#8217;ll be careful on the test, but this is just a practice test.&#8221;  You must practice your timing plan.  You also need to have a personal strategy.  When I face a tough LR problem, I answer it, circle the problem on my test and move on with the plan to return to it when I finish the rest of the test.  I rarely find time to do that, but it&#8217;s comforting knowing that I&#8217;ve planned to do so!  Most importantly, my plan allows me to keep moving.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s a basic guideline (and be reasonable, if you&#8217;re shooting for a 168, use the top guidelines):</p>
<p style="text-align: center"><strong>For 165+</strong></p>
<p>LG: 7, 8, 9, 10 (one game in 7 minutes, one game in 8 . . . and the first game isn&#8217;t always the easiest, so don&#8217;t rely on that)</p>
<p>RC: 7, 8, 9, 10 (one passage in 7 minutes, one game in 8 . . .)</p>
<p>LR: First fifteen in 18 minutes, last 10 or so in 17 minutes</p>
<p style="text-align: center"><strong>For 175+</strong></p>
<p>LG: 6, 7, 8, 9</p>
<p>RC: 6, 7, 8, 9</p>
<p>LR: First fifteen in 15 minutes, last 10 or so  in 20 minutes</p>
<p><strong>Good luck!</strong></p>
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