Dominate the LSAT

You’re Not Solving the Questions Yet

Most LSAT students think they're in a good place when they're getting around 80% of the questions right.

But for a great score, 80% accuracy isn’t good enough. 

80% means you're missing one of every five questions you attempt. And you’re probably getting several others right for the wrong reasons. 

You’re guessing well. You're eliminating answers that seem bad. You’re sometimes relying on instinct instead of understanding. That’s not solving the LSAT—not consistently, at least.

Accuracy Reveals Understanding

Students obsess over test scores.

Instead, pay attention to accuracy.

Your accuracy tells you how well you actually understood what you read. If you're consistently below 90%, you're almost certainly moving on from many questions before you've fully solved them. To get better, you need to understand the questions you attempt well enough that the correct answer is obvious on almost every one.

So the next time you evaluate your performance, don’t look at your total score. Look at how you did on the questions you actually attempted, even if you only did a few of them. The higher your accuracy goes, the better you’re getting.  

The Power of Drilling

The necessity of accuracy is one reason why drilling is so powerful. Drilling asks you to ignore any future questions and focus only on the question in front of you. 

You’re not being timed. There aren’t more difficult questions waiting for you later. When you drill, you only need to get the question in front of you correct. If you get it wrong, you can (and should) take as much time as you need to figure out why you got it wrong, and how to avoid the same mistake in the future. 

You should still do timed sections and practice tests. But every successful study plan has a healthy portion of drilling. We recommend rotating between drilling and timed sections each day, giving you a roughly 50-50 split. 

Drilling forces you to focus on accuracy. When you apply that mentality to timed sections and the actual test, your scores will skyrocket. 

Stop Trying to Do More

When students plateau, they usually respond by doing more.

More sections. More practice tests. More review.

But if your understanding isn't improving, more repetitions won't fix the problem.

Instead, slow down. Do fewer questions. Spend as much time as necessary to fully understand the passage, the question, and the answer choices before moving on.

Speed Takes Care of Itself

Students constantly ask how to get faster.

They're asking the wrong question.

You don’t become fast by practicing speed. You become fast by understanding the material so well that you immediately recognize the correct answer. The wrong answers aren’t tempting because you solved the problem before you even looked at the answer choices.

Accuracy is the priority. Speed follows naturally over time.

Every Word Matters

Students usually don’t pick wrong answers because they misunderstand the logic.

They do so because they read something wrong. 

There’s a difference between half and more than half. Between most and many. The LSAT tests those differences because lawyers have to notice those differences. Sloppy reading will kill you on the LSAT and in law practice. 

High scorers aren’t smarter. They simply read more carefully. 

Raise Your Standards

If you’re scoring in the 150s, you need a higher standard for understanding.

Read more carefully. Slow down. Don’t move to the next question until you’ve solved the one in front of you.

When you do that consistently, your accuracy goes up.

And when your accuracy goes up, your scores will too.