how many hours a day do you study?? Forum

[dsa1]

I took the LSAT before and I didn't study as much as I should have.

Starting this week, I've been doing about 2-3 hours each day with a full 5 section test every week.

I'm focusing more on why I missed certain questions and getting the games down perfect.

I feel like I should be studying 5-6 hours per day..but afraid i'll burn out way before the Sept test date.

[Lupton Pittman]

I'm trying to stick to 4-5 during the week.

[cameronfraser88]

If you add all the time I spend reading threads in this forum then like 10 hours a day. Otherwise probably just an hour or two.

[Helmholtz]

I studied maybe an average of two or three hours a day, five days a week the final month before the test, and a little less than that the preceding couple months.

Five to six hours a day in June while preparing for the September test probably isn't a good idea. High likelihood of crash and burn.

[hithere]

8 hrs day/broken up (take full test in morning, review in afternoon)

[thuggishruggishbone]

you have to study like you were Chinese:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/13/world ... ?ref=world

[js87]

8 hrs day/broken up (take full test in morning, review in afternoon)

If you do that from now until September won't you run out of tests pretty long before the LSAT?



I study 1-2 hours per day, except once per week (on average) when I take a full length test. Beginning in August it will probably pick up to 2-3 hours per day.

[solotee]

I try to squeeze in 2 different sessions of 2-3 hours each, can't say that I always stick to schedule

[zanda]

I did 2 hours or so (1 practice test) about 3 times a week

[bumblebeetoona]

1 hour a day. Having taken it once already, I know the basics and I just need more practice.

[Joan Manuel Serrat]

you have to study like you were Chinese:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/13/world ... ?ref=world

The night before the exam, he lingered at his parents’ bedside, unable to sleep for hours. “I was so nervous during the exam my mind went blank,” he said. He scored 432 points out of a possible 750, too low to be admitted even to a second-tier institution.

Silence reigned in the house for days afterward. “My mother was very angry,” he said. “She said, ‘All these years of raising you and washing your clothes and cooking for you, and you earn such a bad score.'"

LOL!

[Frb43]

About 2 hours a day (because I'm currently only doing LR), but once I finish with LR and then LG, I'll start taking PTs every third day, boosting my study time to about 4-5 hours a day.

[alanbfish]

Dont's remind me of those good old days

you have to study like you were Chinese:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/13/world ... ?ref=world

[MSachmorov]

you have to study like you were Chinese:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/13/world ... ?ref=world

The LSAT is still more intense and the studying process is much more arduous (or at least should be).

[duodora]

I've been doing 3-4 hours a day 6 days a week, for um, all of 2 weeks now

I think I might tone it down a little bit though--I'd rather not burn out and the test really is pretty far away. I've managed to pull my diagnostic (157) up to the 170 area. I know it will only get harder from here, but there are still 3 months until the test, and I think I'd rather do less per day and learn it more thoroughly than doing more per day and committing less to memory.

[vttran9]

4-5 hours a day, 5 days a week.. lets not mention work or summer school...

[bakemono]

I've been doing 3-4 hours a day 6 days a week, for um, all of 2 weeks now

I think I might tone it down a little bit though--I'd rather not burn out and the test really is pretty far away. I've managed to pull my diagnostic (157) up to the 170 area. I know it will only get harder from here, but there are still 3 months until the test, and I think I'd rather do less per day and learn it more thoroughly than doing more per day and committing less to memory.

dude, you're pretty much my twin. 157 to several 170's in a row now, and i'm massively regretting eating through pt's instead of focusing as much time as possible to my wrong answers. Then again, I am taking the test in a week, so maybe I won't feel the need to take it again. If I do have to take it again though, I'd feel really good about a 170.

[MlhopeTC]

you have to study like you were Chinese:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/13/world ... ?ref=world

The night before the exam, he lingered at his parents’ bedside, unable to sleep for hours. “I was so nervous during the exam my mind went blank,” he said. He scored 432 points out of a possible 750, too low to be admitted even to a second-tier institution.

Silence reigned in the house for days afterward. “My mother was very angry,” he said. “She said, ‘All these years of raising you and washing your clothes and cooking for you, and you earn such a bad score.'"

LOL!

that is good stuff, haha!

[lawlover829]

When I was studying I was doing 10-12 hours a day.

[Hook 'Em]

I studied maybe an average of two or three hours a day, five days a week the final month before the test, and a little less than that the preceding couple months.

There is no way that I could productively study for 5-6 hours a day.

[SUSasskuash]

I took the LSAT before and I didn't study as much as I should have.

Starting this week, I've been doing about 2-3 hours each day with a full 5 section test every week.

I'm focusing more on why I missed certain questions and getting the games down perfect.

I feel like I should be studying 5-6 hours per day..but afraid i'll burn out way before the Sept test date.

I hope you have more going on than just LSAT studying if your worried about burnout. I'm currently a paralegal and, trust me, if 5-6 hours a day burns you out you shouldn't be in law anyway.

[Helmholtz]

I took the LSAT before and I didn't study as much as I should have.

Starting this week, I've been doing about 2-3 hours each day with a full 5 section test every week.

I'm focusing more on why I missed certain questions and getting the games down perfect.

I feel like I should be studying 5-6 hours per day..but afraid i'll burn out way before the Sept test date.

I hope you have more going on than just LSAT studying if your worried about burnout. I'm currently a paralegal and, trust me, if 5-6 hours a day burns you out you shouldn't be in law anyway.

I'm a paralegal too. If you think LSAT study is anything like law firm work, you're sadly mistaken.

Also, LSAT study is usually piled on to whatever else you have going on during your life. I was working 25 hours a week and taking a semester of school while studying. It wasn't always easy to fit study time in.

[SUSasskuash]

I took the LSAT before and I didn't study as much as I should have.

Starting this week, I've been doing about 2-3 hours each day with a full 5 section test every week.

I'm focusing more on why I missed certain questions and getting the games down perfect.

I feel like I should be studying 5-6 hours per day..but afraid i'll burn out way before the Sept test date.

I hope you have more going on than just LSAT studying if your worried about burnout. I'm currently a paralegal and, trust me, if 5-6 hours a day burns you out you shouldn't be in law anyway.

I'm a paralegal too. If you think LSAT study is anything like law firm work, you're sadly mistaken.

Also, LSAT study is usually piled on to whatever else you have going on during your life. I was working 25 hours a week and taking a semester of school while studying. It wasn't always easy to fit study time in.

That's exactly my point- just the LSAT should not burn you out after 5 hours/day. On top of working or a full class schedule (or both), it's a legit concern. But when a law firm asks its lawyers to work 60+ hours a week on a regular basis (as mine does), someone who has dropped everything else just to study for the LSAT should be capable of putting more than 30 hours a week into studying. If you don't need that much to score well on the test, that's great, but putting in just that number of hours concentrating should not cause burnout.