PT question

[sbpark1984]

Hi.
I'm going to take the oct test, thus I only have like 4 months left.
I've taken a prep course, so familiar with lsat questions.
My question is should I take all the PT?
Including the upcoming June test, 2007 test, and 4 Feb tests, there are 71 PTs.
Some people recommend that I should do the same PT twice.
But, I only have 4 months left and will plan to do one PT every day for five days each wk.
That means that I won't have time to do the PTs twice.
Which is better, doing all PTs, but only once with thorough review or skipping first 20 PTs (as they are old tests) and focus on the latest ones, doing PTs twice?
Or, does any one have better ideas?
Thank you in advance.

[shaynfernandez]

I wouldn't advise either of those decisions. Your very likely to repeat your same mistakes if you take a PT everyday. Unless your scoring 180 every time, that's the only way I could see this as beneficial.

[ManhattanPrepLSAT1]

I have to agree with shaynfernandez. Taking a practice test every day or almost every day is not a recipe for improving on the LSAT. 10 years ago when I was preparing the LSAT, I went down the same path. I took a practice test every day (5 days/week) for 3 weeks straight. When I told my instructor what I was doing he told me that all I was doing was measuring that I still knew what I knew yesterday and wasn't giving myself time to actually improve. Initially, I blew off his advice as I thought he didn't know what he was talking about (oops!), but in the end, I got the same score for 3 weeks straight.

Spread out your PTs. You only need to take roughly 10. I'd recommend that you work your way backwards from the October LSAT and assign PTs to the following schedule.

1 week before the LSAT: 2 PTs (separated by a few days)
2 weeks before the LSAT: 2 PTs (separated by a few days)
3 weeks before the LSAT: 1-2 PTs (separated by a few days)
4 weeks before the LSAT: 1 PT
6 weeks before the LSAT: 1 PT
8 weeks before the LSAT: 1 PT
10 weeks before the LSAT: 1 PT

Additionally, I recommend that you take 2 timed 35 min sections the day prior to any day you plan to take a practice LSAT. They don't need to be from any specific sectional format, nor do they need to be consecutive. You just need to feel the clock before a practice test after all the untimed work you'll be doing between your practice LSATs.

Finally, remember to add an experimental section (5th section) to any practice LSAT to work on endurance.

Good luck!