LSAT Reading Comprehension for VR Practice??

[HopefulOncoDoc]

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Hey guys so I've pretty much exhausted all of my VR practice I was wondering if it would be a good idea to use the LSAT Reading Comprehension section as practice? Someone from top law schools (Pre-Law forum) who says he's taught LSAT and MCAT classes claims that the Reading Comprehension section of the LSAT is much more difficult than the MCAT VR section. He says he's recommended his MCAT students to utilitze them as practice but I don't know. I just wanted to get some feedback here and see what you guys think. Thanks a lot!

 

[munchymanRX]

Hey guys so I've pretty much exhausted all of my VR practice I was wondering if it would be a good idea to use the LSAT Reading Comprehension section as practice? Someone from top law schools (Pre-Law forum) who says he's taught LSAT and MCAT classes claims that the Reading Comprehension section of the LSAT is much more difficult than the MCAT VR section. He says he's recommended his MCAT students to utilitze them as practice but I don't know. I just wanted to get some feedback here and see what you guys think. Thanks a lot!

I'd shy away from doing that, actually. While they may indeed be harder, the types of questions and general form of the answers is likely to be quite different. Practice for the test that you're going to take, rather than rely on strategies for an entirely different exam.

Word to the wise as well: If you've exhausted all your practice passages and taken all the AAMC tests, it's not too likely your verbal score will improve immensely beyond this point.

 

[wanderer]

I'd shy away from doing that, actually. While they may indeed be harder, the types of questions and general form of the answers is likely to be quite different. Practice for the test that you're going to take, rather than rely on strategies for an entirely different exam.

Word to the wise as well: If you've exhausted all your practice passages and taken all the AAMC tests, it's not too likely your verbal score will improve immensely beyond this point.

I did some practice LSATs about 1.5-2 years ago, and if my memory serves me correctly the RC was very different than the MCAT's VR. It is much more logical, but also more nuanced. VR is often illogical, and the whole point of the VR is to think like the test makers. That is not to say they don't have a lot in common but they are very different from each other. I would only study LSAT RC if I had a lot of time to study and was running out of material.