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LSAT Qns -Is it worth doing them if i get 90% of hard OG Qs Correct

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LSAT Qns -Is it worth doing them if i get 90% of hard OG Qs Correct [#permalink] New post   07 Jan 2023, 19:56
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My targets score for Verbal is V45+.
i was doing LSAT hard(700+) CR questions on gmatclub. But many of them have different patterns (analogy, syllogism etc types). My accuracy goes down to 60-70% on hard LSAT problems.

However, on OG hard CR questions my accuracy is around 90%. I got 1 wrong out of 10 hard question(700+) i did on gmatclub OG problems. I breached 2 minute mark on some of them but it was less than 3 mins on all of them.

I have to improve RC and SC. My targets score for Verbal is V45+.
Is it a time kill to keep solving LSAT questions. I have exhausted almost all OG questions

Should i keep practicing LSAT CR questions

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Re: LSAT Qns -Is it worth doing them if i get 90% of hard OG Qs Correct [#permalink] New post   08 Jan 2023, 01:59
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I practice heavily using LSAT CR and RC questions. I do strongly recommend LSAT CR, as GMATNinja does, because LSAT CR is much harder than GMAT, so it will prepare you well for the GMAT by making the GMAT questions seem easy.

You are correct that there are some LSAT question types that do not appear on the GMAT, mainly the "similar reasoning" type questions. I personally skip those, since it won't really appear on the GMAT (or at least hasn't appeared yet). I mainly focus on LSAT assumption,strengthen,weaken, and paradox questions since those are the main question types on the GMAT.

It is normal that your LSAT CR accuracy is lower compared to your GMAT CR accuracy, since the questions are denser and trickier. 60-70% is a pretty good accuracy I think for LSAT hard, especially when you consider that they are harder than GMAT questions.

If you are trying to improve RC, I also recommend LSAT RC passages.

GMATNinja made a great post about why you should use LSAT RC and CR: https://gmatclub.com/forum/experts-topi ... 39365.html

For SC, OG is the best, but if you are running out of questions I really recommend Manhattan SC book.
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Re: LSAT Qns -Is it worth doing them if i get 90% of hard OG Qs Correct [#permalink] New post   08 Jan 2023, 02:21
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Hi desertEagle.

If you are getting 90 percent of hard GMAT CR questions correct, then your CR performance may be good enough for achieving your score goal.

However, while LSAT questions are pretty hard, if you get only 70 percent of LSAT CR questions correct even if you don't answer ones that are significantly different from GMAT CR questions, then maybe you should keep practicing. After all, if your execution skills are good enough for scoring V45+, you should be able to get LSAT CR questions that are similar in form to GMAT questions correct.

By the way, there are more official CR questions in the two Official Practice Questions sets on mba.com. So, if you run out of OG CR questions, you could purchase one or both of those sets to get more GMAT CR questions.
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LSAT Qns -Is it worth doing them if i get 90% of hard OG Qs Correct [#permalink] New post   08 Jan 2023, 02:47
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Hi desertEagle.

If you are getting 90 percent of hard GMAT CR questions correct, then your CR performance may be good enough for achieving your score goal.

However, while LSAT questions are pretty hard, if you get only 70 percent of LSAT CR questions correct even if you don't answer ones that are significantly different from GMAT CR questions, then maybe you should keep practicing. After all, if your execution skills are good enough for scoring V45+, you should be able to get LSAT CR questions that are similar in form to GMAT questions correct.

By the way, there are more official CR questions in the two Official Practice Questions sets on mba.com. So, if you run out of OG CR questions, you could purchase one or both of those sets to get more GMAT CR questions.


Hi MartyTargetTestPrep, Hope you are well.

Currently, I can solve official GMAT and LSAT CR 600-700 level questions on GMATClub with close to 100% Accuracy.
However, my accuracy for 700 LSAT questions hovers around 60% ( With timing constraints), close to 80% with no time constraints. Can you please provide some suggestions to improve accuracy in 700-level LSAT questions? Thank you in advance

My target score is 760 ( Q50, V42+)
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LSAT Qns -Is it worth doing them if i get 90% of hard OG Qs Correct [#permalink] New post   08 Jan 2023, 03:00
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Just adding to whatever has been said - A big misconception is that one you solve a verbal question, you have ‘exhausted’ it. This is rarely the case, especially for 700+ level verbal questions. There are so many layers of complexity to such questions, that even if you revisit these tough questions for the nth time, you will gain something new out of the questions —especially from the wrong answers. You can also gain deeper insights by going through select experts solutions (for eg Marty’s and Gmatninja’s solutions. Ron’s video solutions which are part of his Thursday’s with Ron are aslo cool). If tou truly master all that these tough official verbal questions have to offer, there would be little left to do in achieving your target score

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Re: LSAT Qns -Is it worth doing them if i get 90% of hard OG Qs Correct [#permalink] New post   08 Jan 2023, 05:54
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I have to improve RC and SC. My targets score for Verbal is V45+.


Had multiple students get V45. If you feel your fundamentals are solid, may sound strange but at a certain point working on your solving approach may be helpful to get a high Verbal score. Consider working with a study buddy who is really strong on the section.

A quick tip for RC would be to become super familiar with INFERENCE questions.

All the best with the prep.

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Re: LSAT Qns -Is it worth doing them if i get 90% of hard OG Qs Correct [#permalink] New post   08 Jan 2023, 09:10
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BIGDAMNGOD wrote:
Hi MartyTargetTestPrep, Hope you are well.

Currently, I can solve official GMAT and LSAT CR 600-700 level questions on GMATClub with close to 100% Accuracy.
However, my accuracy for 700 LSAT questions hovers around 60% ( With timing constraints), close to 80% with no time constraints. Can you please provide some suggestions to improve accuracy in 700-level LSAT questions? Thank you in advance

My target score is 760 ( Q50, V42+)

Hi BIGDAMNGOD.

Basically, it's likely that only two main things are causing you to miss questions. Either you aren't clear about the nature of the correct answers, or your execution isn't tight enough to get you to the correct answers.

So, your move is to analyze the process you went through each time you miss a question and determine what caused you to miss it.

I think, in some cases, you'll find that you missed an LSAT question partly because it doesn't work the same as a corresponding GMAT question.

However, in most cases, I think you'll find that you needed to be more rigorous in the reasoning you used to eliminate or choose choices. I think you'll likely find that you are letting something slide a little, or overlooking something, and that by being a little more careful and intense, you'll increase your accuracy.
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