How to Review Practice Exams
Goals
Identify your biggest areas of opportunity (not the same thing as a weakness)
Identify how we can practice improving those areas
Steps
Day of Practice Exam
1. Take your practice exam like normal in your Blueprint account, flagging questions that give you trouble along the way.
2. Look over your practice exam and see what you got wrong & which ones you flagged.
3. Jot down which questions you got wrong, which ones you flagged, and any others you got right but weren't confident in. These are the questions you'll do in your LSAC LawHub account (see below) the next day.
Next day
4. In your LSAC LawHub account, find the exam that corresponds to the one you took on Blueprint.
Note: Section order may differ in the exam you see on LawHub compared to the one in your Blueprint Account, as your Blueprint exam includes an unscored section to mimic the Test Day experience as much as possible.
5. Note which questions you got right & wrong the second time.
For the questions you get right, think about what error you made the first time and how you corrected it the second time.
For the questions you got wrong both times, read the answer choice explanations that Blueprint has and write down what went wrong with this question (use your LLJ!) Try to be specific and try to think of the technique error that you made. Think about how you should have approached the question/what you should have noticed compared to what you did.
6. Look over the notes you made during this test — are there any errors that seem to be repeating?
Common Technique Errors in LR
Ignoring logical force (both in stimulus and the answer choices) based on the question type
Messing up with diagramming language (ex: picking that answers that commit the converse/inverse)
Missing subtle language shifts both in the original stimulus/answers
Mischaracterizing an aspect of the stimulus
Failure to notice that an answer distorted information in the stimulus or was simply outside of the scope of the stimulus (particularly in Characterization Family Questions)
Incorrect identification of common flaws
Failure to anticipate, or failure to adhere to your anticipation.
Common Technique Errors in RC
Misunderstanding the main point of the passage
Not focusing structurally on what has happening in the passage/not relating later ideas to earlier ones
Not capturing role of the paragraph in your tags
Misreading questions or incorrectly identifying the question types
Failing to anticipate, or failure to adhere to your anticipation
Not paying attention to logical force on detail questions and inference questions
Not paying enough attention to tone (both in passage and in answer choices).
How to Practice to Improve
Take one of the common errors you've been making and think about what question types it appears in
Set up a practice set (in your Qbank) that you will do untimed (10-15 questions)
Focus on the element that is causing you trouble
When you feel comfortable with this idea, set up a timed practice set that tests that section generally. (25ish questions)
If you do well on the timed practice move on to a new element you struggled on.
If you want to learn more about how to do a blind review, check out this article!