Goal Setting

Quick Tip: Create a Daily Habit!

Many students have trouble determining what their study sessions should look like. A great method is to create a daily habit that attacks your weakest LSAT area for a maximum of 10 minutes. Your daily habit could be completing one Reading Comprehension passage with questions, completing one Logic Game, or completing a set of 3 Parallel Reasoning questions. Whatever your particular area of struggle, try the Daily Habit method to attack those problems in a direct and efficient way.

Setting Goals

After completing a practice test, everyone wants to see a score increase. Aside from external factors like fatigue or anxiety, our overall score going up or down depends entirely on the individual skills used in each section. Our desire to see a score increase at the conclusion of every practice test can often cloud the development of the small skills needed to correctly answer an LSAT question. The strengths and weaknesses of each individual student differ. Because there are so many different things that could go right or wrong depending on the methods each student is using, the effective study schedule sets forth reasonable goals for each practice test. 

Instead of simply hoping to see a higher score, challenge yourself to identify a specific goal you want to achieve during your timed practice test. You can identify these goals by first making note of your weakest section and question types using 7Sage’s analytics function. While this is just one way to create a specific goal for your next practice test, the possibilities are endless! Try to create achievable and reasonable goals to keep yourself engaged even when we see scores fluctuate with time.