I have read most of the post in this section and i guess i'm looking for someone to just say how they scored high. What did you do differently? I have been studying all summer and took the LSAT for the first time in September and got 149, I am going to retake it in December but I just do not know how to approach studying or practicing differently to be more effective. I took the Princeton review class in the summer and it helped but now I really need to work even harder to increase my score. I am shooting for a 160. If someone can tell me the method i need to use and focus on i would appreciate it.

The key is understanding why an answer choice is wrong, and by process of elimination, knowing that the remaining answer is right not only by elimination but because it is correct. The examiners try to psych you out and point you toward the wrong answer. So, you'll see that its a multiple of factors: going through hundreds of questions; eliminating the wrong answers; understanding why an answer is wrong.

Watch out for words like none, never, or always. They often signal a wrong answer.

Example:

Someone who gets sick from eating a meal will often develop a strong distaste for the one food in the meal that had the most distinctive flavor, whether or not that food caused the sickness. This phenomenon explains why children are especially likely to develop strong aversions to some foods.

Which one of the following, if true, provides the strongest support for the explanation?

(a) Children are more likely than adults to be given meals composed of foods lacking especially distinctive flavors.
(b) Children are less likely than adults to see a connection between their health and the foods they eat.
(c) Children tend to have more acute taste and to become sick more often than adults do.
(d) Children typically recover more slowly than adults do from sickness caused by food.
(e) Children are more likely than are adults to refuse to eat unfamiliar foods.

(Answer: C)