What is a good LSAT study schedule for 4 months when working full time?

Answer 1

Over a third of my LSAT students have been working full time while I tutored them. Although there's no one answer that perfectly fits everyone, I can outline some key principles based on their experiences over the last seven years:

1. As soon as possible, find out why you make mistakes and are slow. Otherwise, you will work on the wrong issues and make bad habits more permanent.
2. Once you know what you need to improve, focus your initial attention in the first month on those causes of errors and slowness that cause more than 80 percent of your problems. If you have time, learn more methods in the second and third months.
3. Practice improved methods as soon as you find one that is more than 90 percent accurate and timely until you do perform a method almost automatically in an accurate and timely way. Hopefully, you can do so during months two through four. To have enough time for such drilling, be open to taking a week or two of vacation early in the fourth month.
4. Focus on test-day preparation during the week prior to the actual test.

Depending on what your work schedule is, you will have to schedule your study time when you are reasonably alert. If you can do such work during the parts of the day when you will take your initial LSAT, that would be best.

Good luck to you!