LSAT Timing Tip

The following applies to all sections but I think it's especially applicable to the reading comprehension section of the exam. Many people struggle with timing and they'll rush through the sections with the goal of answering all the questions in a given section. 

The better approach, until you feel that you can answer all the questions without also feeling like you're rushing through the questions quicker than you'd like, is to set a goal of answering most of the questions correctly, and accepting that a certain number of questions will be guessed. 

For example, take the reading comprehension section, the section for which I believe this advice is most applicable. The section is 35 minutes in length. Assume you decide ahead of time that your goal will be to answer the questions correctly in the first 3 passages rather than the questions in all 4 passages. That'll probably mean answering 19 or 20 questions as opposed to, say, 27 questions. If you're able to achieve that goal, you then move on with whatever time remains and try to pull a couple of points from that final passage. Also, it's not too unlikely that you'll guess correctly on a few of them. 

In other words, if achieved, you'll score solidly on that section and likely you'll score better than if you had the goal of getting through every question. With that you might have rushed through the first 3 passages so that you could get to the 4th and in doing so made many more errors along the way. 

The above is a strategy. The point is to say that there are multiple roads to scoring very well on this exam, and some of those roads are less intuitive than others. But be creative, and play towards your strengths.