Lesson 8: LSAT Timing and Test-Taking Strategies

==Updated for the New August 2024 LSAT Format==

Welcome to the *Insight LSAT Prep Course!* This is an eight-video series designed to prepare you for the *Law School Admission Test.*

00:00 Introduction
01:42 Timing Overview
03:35 Skipping Questions
07:52 Timing for Logical Reasoning (LR)
14:16 Timing for Reading Comprehension (RC)
20:48 Full or Partial Completion?
26:45 Time Crunch
29:00 Home or Testing Center?
30:38 The LSAT as Mental Marathon
36:37 LSAT Writing
38:06 Course Summary and Conclusion

[ofizzy]

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[BrianSchinn]

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[AttorneyNoumanJahangir]

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[skfrodo]

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[oliverniehaus]

Great series and super helpful! One thought regarding test center vs at home, while it's true there could be malfunctions at home, it's also an environment you're much more comfortable with and you can mimic test day conditions almost exactly. Therefore when you end up taking the test, it'll be almost no different than just taking another practice test. Going to a testing center is a new environment, maybe the room is colder or warmer than you'd ideally like, maybe there's a bit of background noise, etc. At home you can control for those conditions and make it exactly as you'd like. Definitely trade offs, but for these reasons I think I'm gonna take it at home.

[makenzieee]

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[troysmajda]

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[enzez]

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[paulreneauii]

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[GavinThomasset-ke]

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[drewaretheguru]

While the testing center pros are in the video, here are the cons:

1. The testing center is a secure facility, meaning when you go in and out of the room, it takes time to enter/leave (be wanded, physically inspected, and to have your id be verified). There are also lockers where your personal belongings will be held in a different room with a padlock and key. Keeping this in mind, your 10 minute break between section 2/3 will NOT be a true break due to the fact that 2-4 minutes will be spent being verified in and out/retrieving and re-inserting personal belongings into lockers (this also doesn't account for the longer on average walk to the bathroom given these facilities are usually in corporate centers of office floors).

2. The testing center does NOT standardize the starting time of the tests, therefore you can most certainly expect that there will be movement occurring within the room where the exams are taking place. This includes individuals being escorted in the room to their assigned station, proctors moving throughout the lab on a recurrent schedule, or test takers scurrying out to be sure they are able to get as much of their break time as possible. Of course, this also means there will sometimes be egregiously loud shocks of noise which will emanate from the door latches opening or hydraulically shutting. Foam earplugs are not permitted in the testing facility, however, and instead only the use of the facilities' earmuffs are able to be worn. However, these ear coverings may not help, as they tend to be overly tight on the temples and jawline, causing extreme fatigue on either or both. Further, as they are made of hard molded plastic, you may begin to find yourself sweating where they are making contact with your skin - a further distraction as you get deeper in to any given section.

3. With the concurrent movement throughout the room, you may become acutely aware and distracted by continuous shadows appearing over your shoulder and onto your computer monitor, along with the floating heads which will randomly appear above the cubicle dividers in front of you and on either side, given that you are not assigned to a station which faces a wall. You may also find yourself being inundated with the stressful pheromones of others throughout the lab, alongside a potential subconscious reaction of witnessing others in an stressful environment and having a similarly subconscious response.

4. The monitor provided in the center will not necessarily reflect the studying environment under which you are used to reading screens. Meaning that if you are studying on a display with higher resolution, it may take some time to get used to reading a slightly different pixelation size (ie., moving from a Retina display to a lower-quality Dell monitor). Similarly, the mouse, keyboard, and chair will all most likely have had their abundantly fair share of users' engagement with it, causing the functionality, ease, and comfortability of all to decrease to that of a sample model which has been on the sales floor for a decade or longer.

5. There is not a guarantee that your station will not have an issue with its internet or being able to log in, even given that you have your correct credentials memorized.

{This does not cover the additional mental stressors of getting to the facility, parking, and planning, nor does it cover seeing your 'competition' for school admissions, if you think that way.}

All of these factors further add to the already-stressful testing day experience. If you have the means and ability to maintain a more balanced environment where the environmental, physical, and non-LSAT-focused mental stressors can be mitigated, it may be helpful in order to fully and solely tend to both your mental focus and stamina on test day.

[edwardschmalz]

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[KennyLaysee]

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[AttorneyNoumanJahangir]

Taking the test in the test center is the best choice; but my problem is due to my low IQ and as I got distrubed more often by the voices of others; thats why I always choose home based test. In test centers, the fellow candidates make a lot of noise. Last time someone sitting next to me and just next to and adjacent to my cabin was taking his test of typing and he was making a lot of noise and all my time got wasted while failing to concentrate upon my test. I am in Pakistan and International. And here in Lahore; there is just one test center and hence test center officials just keep all the test takers belonging to different tests in the same room by keeping the numerous cabin in the same room. So, home base test is best; and as I am not in America.

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[joshmitchell]

If anyone has taken the LSAT at home, please be sure to let me know your experiences. I would love to continue weighing my options before registration closes. Thanks in advance!

[helloImNK]

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[rona]

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