Sigh, these standardized tests all come down to timing. I just took another practice exam today, and this time for each section I marked where I was when time was up, then continued and finished the rest of the section. Then I scored myself based on both the timed and untimed results, and the scores were quite telling: 179 untimed vs. 169 timed. Without the time restrictions, I only missed 3 questions total. With the time restrictions, my raw score was altered as follows:

• - 11 from questions I didn’t get to before time was up.
• + 1 from blindly filling in (C) to the above 11 questions (talk about bad luck).
• - 2 from questions I revisited after time was up and would otherwise have missed.

That makes a total of -12 raw points, which translated to -10 LSAT points for this particular exam. The time factored most heavily in the reading comprehension and logic sections, for which I wasn’t able to get to 4 and 6 questions, respectively. The logic section was particularly deceptive– there are 4 sets of questions which need to be answered in 35 minutes, which approximates to 8 minutes and 45 seconds per set. I finished the first two sets in roughly 14 minutes, I started feeling a bit confident, and then the third set just ran me into the ground, taking me about 15 minutes to complete. Ya, I definitely need to work on my timing.