Correctly reviewing LSAT questions (and exams) is the key to getting the score improvement you want. However, it isn’t enough to take a practice exam, check your answers right away, and look up the Blueprint explanations for the questions you missed. On the contrary, if you check your answers right away after a timed prep test, you are missing your best opportunity to get as much information as possible about how to improve: the Blind Review.

What is a Blind Review? Essentially, you are retaking questions you weren’t 100% sure about before you know what the correct answer is. You are either reaffirming your correct process or learning where your process went wrong, preferably by figuring this out for yourself. As you will see, it also involves analyzing questions you thought you were 100% certain about and got wrong.

Your Blueprint account includes access to LSAC’s LawHub, which offers every released LSAT in the exact format you will confront on the actual exam. The LawHub version of the exam is the one you will use for your Blind Review of your practice exam. Here is what you'll need to do:

Take one of the exams available to you in your Blueprint account under the timing you will be using on the actual exam. For most students, that will be 1x (35 minutes per section). However, if you have accommodations to take the exam with 1.5x or 2x time, then you can use that setting to simulate the timing you will have on test day.

As you take the exam, flag every question you are not 100% certain you are getting correct. What does 100% certain mean? It means that you are certain that your selected answer is correct, and equally certain that the other four answer choices are incorrect.

If you are at the beginning of your prep then it is also a good idea to flag every Logical Reasoning (LR) question where you are not 100% certain you have correctly identified the conclusion and premises. If you aren’t certain, you may get the question right due to luck rather than skill. This will help you develop that all-important skill of analyzing the argument into its component parts.

When you are finished with the exam, you will have up to three categories of questions: (1) questions you are 100% certain about; (2) questions you are NOT 100% certain about and have flagged; and (3) questions you didn’t have enough time to answer. The following steps will address how to handle each of these categories.

Once you have completed the exam, DO NOT LOOK AT ANY OF THE CORRECT ANSWERS. This would defeat the whole purpose of the Blind Review, which is to revisit your reasoning unaffected by the correct result.

Then, log into LawHub and pull up the Practice Test that corresponds to the Blueprint PE you took. The LSAC's LawHub will include practice tests from before the upcoming changes for the August exam date (tests that include Logic Games), as well as updated tests for the August exam date and beyond (tests that do not include Logic Games). Since you are taking an exam that does not include Logic Games, make sure you are looking through those tests in your LawHub account.

Below are the practice exams in your Blueprint account along with each corresponding exam in your LawHub account.

If you finished all of the questions on time, fantastic! Go to the next step. However, if you did not get to them all, then take as much as you need to be 100% certain of the correct answer. Make sure you apply the correct strategy for each question type. You will be analyzing these questions later on.

Do these untimed. Reflect on your reasoning from when you first completed the questions. Make sure you understand why the right answer is correct according to the strategy as well as why the other four answer choices are incorrect. If you did not anticipate something close to the correct answer on the original exam, then make sure you do so this time.

For each flagged question you will either stick with your original answer or select a new one. If you pick a new answer choice then keep track of both your original answer and your new one. You will need this later on.

Go back to your original exam and look at all of the correct answers. Take a look at both how you did on the original exam (time pressure) and on the Blind Review (no time pressure).

If you got the question right, way to go! Your job is done.

If you got the question wrong, even though you felt 100% certain you got it right, then the LSAT tricked you in some way. First, try to understand how on your own. If you’re still stumped, then review the Blueprint explanation for the question to determine what trap you fell into. Did you have an anticipation? If so, why was it wrong? If not, what should you have done to get a good anticipation? What was tempting about the wrong answer?

If you got the question right, way to go! Your job is done.

If you got the question wrong, repeat the reflection exercise from step 5.

If your changed answer is correct, great! You just taught yourself how to approach the question using the right strategy, and did so accurately. Under timed pressure, you may have gone with your gut or your strategy may have been thrown off by the time constraint. When you did the Blind Review, however, you corrected the mistake on your own, which is better than having an instructor tell you. Great job!

If your changed answer is wrong and your original answer was correct, recall what you did during your Blind Review and leave that incorrect reasoning in the dust. Learn what your mistake was so you don’t repeat it. Try to do this on your own first, only using the Blueprint explanation if you are having trouble spotting the problem.

If your changed answer is wrong and your original answer was also wrong, go to the Blueprint explanation for that question. It is likely that you didn’t fully understand the question, so use the explanations to fill in that gap in understanding.

If you got them right, great! Your job is done.

If you got a question wrong, then go to the Blueprint explanation for that question. It is likely that you didn’t fully understand the question, so use the explanations to fill in the gap in that understanding.

The Blind Review process is admittedly time-consuming, but it is a gold mine of information about where your application of the strategies is going amiss, as well as a reaffirmation of your strengths. If you review all of your practice exams in this way, you will be well on your way to correcting and eliminating all of the mistakes you make under timed pressure.