GMAT Strategy

Hi,

Could you please let me know what accuracy I should be aiming for while attempting the LSAT CR and RC Questions.

Would be reallyyyy hepful.

Thank you.

Honestly, I tell people to not focus on accuracy when studying. First learn how to answer the questions and worry about your score when you take practice exams.

I have to agree with Jim, especially when it comes to the LSAT questions. Remember that the LSAT and the GMAT are different creatures and that a LONG reading passage on the GMAT, for example, is a short passage on the LSAT. However, the GMAT Reading Comp can be a little be denser even though the passages are shorter.

As for Critical Reasoning, there are LSAT question types that are not on the GMAT at all. As an example, there is a type of question where you prove the conclusion as absolutely true rather than just strengthening it. Things like method of reasoning and parallel reasoning that are very small parts of the GMAT are about 25% of all LSAT questions. And of course many LSAT questions rely on formal reasoning, which the GMAT does not rely on.

So, basically you should be doing LSAT questions for learning how to reason/ having fun.

I have written three articles on using the LSAT to study for the GMAT. However, my main advice would be to focus on the GMAT problems from the Official Guides, GMATPrep, the add-on Prep Pack, the verbal review, and reputable sources like Veritas and other companies. If you are using LSAT questions, you should have done LOTS of GMAt questions first so that you are in a position to say - "Yes, this is very similar to the GMAT I can learn something from this," versus, "No, this question would never appear on the GMAT so this is just for fun."

Think of these articles as providing you with guidelines if you do decide to use LSAT questions, while encouraging you to focus on questions written specifically for the GMAT.

https://www.beatthegmat.com/using-the-ls ... 66548.html

https://www.beatthegmat.com/lsat-to-stud ... 69915.html

https://www.beatthegmat.com/lsat-to-stud ... 71361.html

Thanks Jim and David for your responses. David, I have read your posts yet I may be posing questions contradictory to what you have said. Yet would welcome your views on opening up any gap/s in my strategy below. Jim your views are also very much appreciated! Please rip it apart if necessary. Better late than never.

Let me state why i originally posed this question and what problem I am facing.
I have exhausted questions on Official Guide, Quantitative Guide, OG for Verbal review, Kaplan and Princeton. My accuracy rate aka hit rate on those was 65% [75% SC; 60% CR and RC]. On an average.
Now I can't go back to those questions because before reading the question I know the answer for most of the questions.

My target as of now is 75% overall!

So I formed a strategy that if I faced harder questions my hit rate on the actual GMAT level question would obviously become better. Hence LSAT CR and RC

So now I have a couple of questions in response to what you have responses to my initial question. Would appreciate your help.

1. Will there be any backlash if I attempt all CR and RC questions from the LSAT Tests? Will it be detrimental to my preparation if I spend time on these questions a lot? OR is it just that I am wasting my time attempting all of them?

2. Are there are any other source of questions I can use which will be on par to GMAT level? and Above from the sources that I have done.

3. Or do you recommend another approach to increasing my accuracy?

Thanks again for all your help!

I am not saying that you should not use LSAT questions or that it will mess up your GMAT performance. What I am saying is that you should approach the LSAT questions that you do attempt with a GMAT CR strategy. In other words, use the techniques that you have developed for the GMAT on those LSAT questions if those techniques work then the question is likely suitable for GMAT study. There are lots of LSAT questions that are suitable for GMAT study - but there are others that will waste your time if you focus on those -- these are the types of questions that would not be on the GMAT.

So the key is to know the difference between an LSAT question that might be similar to the GMAT and one that is not.

By the way looking at your list of materials you have not listed the GMATPrep add on Pack with those 400 total questions. You have also not listed the Veritas Free Question Bank! https://www.veritasprep.com/gmat-question-bank/

and I might as well through in a mention of the Veritas Prep adaptive test. https://www.veritasprep.com/gmat/free-gm ... tice-test/