Twelve days until the December LSAT! Whether you’re terrified or excited, this will all soon be in the past. To make sure you get the LSAT score you’re looking for a week from Saturday, you’ll want to keep taking plenty of tests and reviewing said tests. As you’re reviewing, here are some tips for improving in individual sections.

Logical Reasoning – Pay attention to what types of questions you’re missing specifically. If you miss a certain question type more often than others, go back and review that one question type, refreshing yourself on the strategies used. In addition to brushing up on question types that you might be rusty on, make sure to pay attention to timing. Getting to the end of the section in time can be a major challenge, and you might find yourself suddenly rushing in the last few minutes. Try not to rush at the end, or you’ll start missing nearly every question you get to. Rather, try to add the speed in the beginning. The difficulty of LR tends to increase as you move forward, so speed up on those easier questions that you’re less likely to miss. This will buy you the time you need to slow down on the later, more difficult questions.

Logic Games – Do them! Many, many, many of them. As you get used to doing the same operations again and again, you’ll get faster and faster. One of the best ways to help with this is to do the games just like you would on a test – a bunch in a row without breaks. If you’re taking a practice test you’ll be doing this anyway, but even when you’re just reviewing a few at a time do them like this. It forces you to build up your endurance on games, and gets you used to suddenly switching gears as you move from one game to another. And always review your games after you do them – you should find and pay attention to any mistakes you may have made so that you can prevent them from reoccurring.

Note: As of August 2024, the LSAT will no longer have a Logic Games Section. The June 2024 exam will be the final LSAT with Logic Games. Learn more about the change here.

Reading Comp – For reading comp, staying focused can be a major problem. As you’re reading, try to actively engage yourself in the passage. If you can convince yourself that you’re interested in what you’re reading, you really will do better. And to work on the endurance, always do several RC passages in a row. You should sometimes do up to 8 passages in a row, as it’s entirely possible that you’d get two RC passages back to back.

No matter what, make sure to keep up the work and keep taking those extra LSAT tests! This will soon just be an unpleasant memory.