Run it on one question tonight
Find one troubled question, whether it’s a miss, a lucky guess, or a slow right answer. Get a pen and a page and run the left column of the table. Twenty minutes. Write the rule in your own words and put a rematch date on it.
Then, if you have a study partner, hand them the right column and let them ask you the questions. You’ll find out fast which steps you’ve been doing in your head and calling done. Writing kills a vague thought in about ten seconds, and being asked out loud is faster.
Before you start on a new one, go back to the three questions you picked in step 1. By now each one has a deposition, a rebuild, a circle on the Three Columns, a rule, and a forecast, and the worst one has a full why-chain. Read the three honest sentences you wrote that first night. Then ask yourself which of the four fake reviews you’d have run on them a month ago: the Nod, the Receipt, the Band-Aid, or the Costume Rule. Lay the three rules side by side. If two of them say the same thing in different words, those questions share a skeleton, and you found it yourself. The dates you wrote in step 6 are your first rematches. Keep them.
If you read this far and decide you’d like a coach in the room for those rematches, book a free LSAT tutoring lesson at unpluggedprep.com/start. Bring your finished review of the three questions, with the rematch dates at the top. Every coach on my team has scored 170 or higher, and every one of them runs the questions in the right-hand column. The workbook and the cheat sheet are listed at the back of the book.
Drilling measures you. Review changes you.
That’s the method, out loud. Go run it.
