December 1999 LSAT

Scaled Score: 171
Raw Score: 88

Logical Reasoning: 48/51
Reading Comprehension: 23/27
Logic Games: 17/23

My first crack at the LSAT in five months was pretty decent. Relieved to see that I hit >170, meaningless as it is. An 87 was required for a 170, and I barely made the threshold. LR was decent, RC was relatively easy (minus one section), and Logic Games was tough.

Post Game Analysis

Logical Reasoning

I remembered too many of these questions, so burning through them in under 30 minutes was not too tough. I had trouble with a couple of questions in the first section, and had to settle for answers without being close to 95% confident before time ran out. The second LR section was better; I blasted through it in 25 minutes. I got all those questions correct.

Reading Comprehension

Not too tough, was able to finish four passages in under 30 minutes easy, but I hit a wall on the "Criticism of Critical Legal Studies [CLS]" passage. Philosophical/abstract passages give me a lot of trouble, and this one was no different. Need to find a better approach to reading comprehension, will elaborate on that later.

Logic Games

Horrible strategy management. I know I'm not particularly good at these, but the mistake I made here was not tactical, it was strategic. Due to my five month hiatus from practicing, I forgot to look through the test to attack the easier games first. I left the two easy games for last and by then I had burned off too much time on the tougher questions. Will do better next time. Be sure not to make the same mistake.